Cave man boogie.
The New York Times reports on a German discovery – or, really, a whole set of discoveries – of Stone Age tools, sculptures and the […]
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreLast of the BIG cats.
The BBC reports that the largest species of cat, the Amur tiger, has an effective population of less than 50 animals: They sampled nuclear DNA […]
Science Art: Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus, by Cassini.
Click to embiggen vastly This is Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons that might harbor life. That nearly geometric blue pattern on its surface is called […]
SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (penitential Mountain Goats cover)
SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by The Mountain Goats. SOURCE: This is a penitential […]
Autotune explained.
Normally I wouldn’t encourage this sort of thing, but NOVA has an interesting feature explaining how Autotune works. On July 6, they’ll be posting answers […]
I see sounds.
ScientificBlogging.com has a story that I’d suspect was an April Fools if this wasn’t the middle of summer. Supposedly, like our intelligent cousins to the […]
Feather in your tank.
The Daily Green recently revealed an alternative fuel scheme that may be much better than bird-brained: Finding novel uses for chicken feathers is a pet […]
Science Art: 3D movie taken by the Terrain Camera (TC) of KAGUYA (SELENE) during its maneuvered falling to the Moon.), Japanese Space Agency JAXA.
(Larger version here.) This is the Japanese lunar probe Kayuga (Selene) crashing into the Moon. More specifically, this is a 3D rendering of data sent […]
SONG: This is the Sound.
SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, 10 […]
Guild Salute: MASSIVE Science Songs.
How did I only find out about this amazing, ambitious site now? It’s the Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database, affiliated with […]
Global Warming Trivia – from the SEA!
The Scientists and Engineers for America have a fun trivia question today: Which gas of the following is the most important greenhouse gas but will […]
Deadly Roundup
Scientific American confirms my suspicions about my neighbors and their well-manicured, weedless yards. All that stuff they’re spraying? Yeah, it’ll kill you: One label requirement […]
Pay attention to your daydreaming.
There’s been a lot of attention paid to paying attention lately – and how we really need to not do that all the time. Wall […]
Song delay….
Yes, it’s the 23rd. There should be a new song here. There isn’t. You, oh faithful readers, will have a scientific song rather soon. And […]
Crunchasaurus?
PhysOrg ventures into the vast Gobi Desert to reveal a historical find – the fossilized remains of the first confirmed nut-eating dinosaur: Larger, more numerous […]