Memory on tap.
The Daily Telegraph has a fascinating story about an accidental neurological discovery. While trying to “switch off” an obese man’s desire to overeat, neurologists using […]
Science Art: Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar.
This is not a movie prop, but a working prototype of the Avrocar, a disc-shaped flying machine that graced the …
Read moreSONG: Fine Altar Stone
SONG: “Fine Altar Stone”. (available as .ogg here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 20…
Read moreScience Art: Turner +2: The Best CB Microphone in the World, 1966.
This is an ad from the April 1966 “Tools and Test Measurement Issue” of Popular Electronics, which I found on a…
Read moreScience Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot..., Cott, 1942.
An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Ra…
Read moreScience Art: Altitude and azimuth instrument, 1876.
How high?
This device will tell you.
It’s from The great Centennial exhibition critically described and…
Read moreIt’s wrong to wish on space hardware.
Nature makes me nostalgic for the 70s, when a young boy’s fancy was caught by tales of Skylab hurtling down to Earth with immense destructive […]
Engineers of Jihad?
EETimes.com, the online news magazine for electrical engineers, recently published a bizarre little musing in the form of a study linking electrical engineering aptitude with […]
Science Art: Schlieren texture
Schlieren texture of a liquid crystal nematic phase. What does that mean? This page will help explain.
Supersize Me.
Science Daily reports on researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig who discovered that McDonald’s makes us supermen: The researchers fed laboratory mice one […]
Gold atoms
In case you were wondering, gold atoms are cool.
Skin Rhythms.
New Scientist stops the clock with timely news about skin. Apparently, skin is pretty deep – it’s somehow tied to the brain as part of […]
Night Lights Are Killing Us?
Man, what, are teddy bears next? The Lancet reports on a survey of studies that, combined, seem to show that night lights are causing cancer […]
Health Magnet.
LiveScience notices something odd that’ll have some hard-minded skeptics practicing their eyebrow raises. Medical magnets – one of the old staples of alternative medicine pseudoscience, […]
Science Art: “Anatomical Man,” Les Très Riches Heures by Duc de Berry
Human anatomy explained as an allegory for astrology, or vice versa. From the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
The King of Paper Airplanes.
New Scientist reports on Japanese space scientists creating origami that’s out of this world: The origami space plane will be a similar design, Suzuki says, […]
Elephants evolve smaller tusks.
The Telegraph reports on the strange findings of Iain Douglas Hamilton and his colleagues, who appear to have discovered evidence that elephants are evolving smaller […]
SONG: You’ve Got Power
SONG: “You’ve Got Power” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2007: Innovators”, Popular Science, December 2007, […]
That stuff you’re breathing.
Nature discusses new findings about how we’ll all get superpowers, like heat vision and wings, just by breathing! Well, what they really said was that […]
It flowers itself to death
New Scientist reports on a frankly bizarre palm tree just discovered by a family picnicking in Madagascar: “It’s a species that is so significant from […]