Pleasure and placebo
Nature plumbs the depths of one of the most mysterious processes in medicine. Researchers have found that the placebo effect – when “fake” medicine creates […]
Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.
This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstru…
Read moreScience Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.
The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea…
Read moreScience Art: Britannia Co.'s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.
“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechan…
Read moreScience Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019
It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster!
That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examine…
Read moreScience Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.
This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “A…
Read moreScience Art: Test Apparatus, 1960
A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lu…
Read moreThe Noble Bonobo
The New Yorker, of all publications, has a fascinating Ian Parker article on the natural history of the bonobo – the sexy primate that’s supposed […]
Ice Volcanoes of Charon!
Nature brings new observations of Ice Volcanoes in Outer Space. Cook speculates that liquid water deep within Charon’s core is mixed with ammonia, which acts […]
SONG: A World Without Us.
SONG: “A World Without Us” [Download] (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. I’m the guy who put this questionable site up on the […]
Baboon birth control (Do you dare to eat a plum?)
New Scientist reports on African primates using natural contraceptives from, of all things, plums: Like the synthetic progestogens used in the pill, phyto-progestogens have a […]
Schizophrenia in Paradise
Science News reports on Trouble in Paradise – how feelings of “social defeat” could be responsible for triggering schizophrenia, which might explain why the otherwise […]
Instrument construction: Bowed Psaltery
How to make a bowed psaltery. And, in case you’re wondering: What IS a bowed psaltery anyway? Why, it’s something like a cimbalom… or maybe […]
Weather in China
On the one hand: China had more wars in cold weather Most of the armed conflicts in eastern China over the past 1,000 years were […]
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