Home-grown and then some.
The FASEB Journal makes me uneasy with a new biochemical study. I’m beginning to worry that any minute now, government agents will be arresting my […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience 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 moreAmmā Dnghu: A taste for PIE.
Forget Hebrew, Latin and Old Norse – the Page F30 blog reports on folks out there working to bring back a really old language: That’s […]
Men need not apply.
The Telegraph, among other news sources, revels in my obsolescence. I am biologically and genetically surplus to needs. I am a man, and they’ve found […]
Science art: Cannabis sativa, Nordisk familjebok
Happy 4/20, all you stoners. This is where rope comes from. And paper, and oil, and birdseed, and cheese, and fabric, and…. duuuuude. Image found […]
Sushi ain’t green.
Scientific American raises the alarming prospect that, much quicker than anyone expected, bluefin tuna is going the way of the dodo: As European fishing fleets […]
Chimp tricks.
LiveScience sullies our image of chimpanzees as noble, natural creatures with evidence that these apes practice prostitution: The primates’ food-for-sex barter occurs indirectly, over the […]
Beauty before flight?
You might think flying is an impressive enough goal for any creature, but the Telegraph reveals new clues that dinosaurs may have evolved wings to […]
Touch the vision.
ScienceNOW is watching perceptual experts sketch out the first map of a strange sensory hinterland – the perceptual space that lies between what you see […]
Science Art: Ammonit-internal-xx_hg, by Hannes Grobe.
Click to embiggen vastly A partially polished ammonite fossil. At one point in history, these guys ruled the world. A few million years ago, there […]
I Love Charts
Oh, my. I may have to cover this. You get the picture. via Kung Fu Grippe.
Of schizophrenic sight and hollow faces.
New Scientist reports on an unusual perceptual quirk schizophrenia grants its victims – the ability to see through the tricky “hollow mask” optical illusion: Telling […]
The satellite feels.
BBC News reports on a new kind of observational satellite overhead. It’s not looking down at us – it’s feeling our weight: As Goce “bumps” […]
Depressed brains are… depressed.
Washington University in St. Louis has been looking at depressed people’s brains – specifically the “default mode network,” a series of connections that link our […]
AI baby step: Robot masters scientific method.
The sober, respectable Financial Times isn’t really the publication one would expect to be covering OH EM GEE THE ROBOT THINKS IT THINKS! kind of […]
Science Art: Bipolar direct-current generator, Webster’s New International
Where Edison’s power came from. It’s a step up from what was called, no lie, an iron-clad machine. Today, we use alternating current. (Go ahead, […]