SONG: Visibility
SONG: “Visibility” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Strange fish has a see-through head”, MSNBC/LiveScience, 23 Feb 2009, as used in […]
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…
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Science Art: Euproctis chrysorrhoea ugglan, Nordisk familjebok
Euproctis chrysorrhoea, better known as the Browntail moth. It stings our skin and devastates our farmland, and is the subject of experiments using pheromones as […]
Electric cars still driving!
The New York Times gives hope for a better drive home with a report on a new approach to electric cars… from the filling station […]
Guild Salute: Jesse Nesbitt
Creativity comes from limitations, yes? Jesse Nesbitt is writing and recording 100 songs in 2009. These are not particularly scientific, but this is certainly a […]
Roboctopus!
New Scientist introduces our latest underwater overlords – or at least the blueprints for one – in a story about Italian researchers who’re designing the […]
The view from there.
Item 1: The Telegraph reports on a group of teenagers who used a <$100 camera and a balloon to take some great pictures of space: […]
Guitarists’ brains click together.
ScientificBlogging covers some fun experiments that involve hooking musicians up to EEG machines, letting them rock out together and watching their brainwaves fall into the […]
Feeling contaminated? Plastic pipes trump glass bottles.
Think your bottled water is all safe from fake estrogen contamination because you’ve switched to glass bottles? ScienceNews wants you to think again: …[T]heir data […]
Google Mars gets better.
Discover’s Bad Astronomy blog highlights some keen new ways to look at the Red Planet: One is an overlay that shows old historical maps, like […]
Science Art: Northern Snakehead – Channa argus
Click to embiggen, if you dare A striking image of an invasive exotic species (native to China, Russia and Korea) that was introduced into continental […]
Peking man is an old, old man.
Researchers have pushed back the date humanity landed in China by a colossal 200,000 years, LiveScience reports. The latest dating of Homo erectus skulls from […]
Science Art: Fractals.
Here, enjoy some prize-winning mathematical art.
Spring Break Science: Girls, don’t try outdrinking boys.
Science Daily reports the dipsomanic discovery that men aren’t impressed by girls who try to outdrink them… but that’s not stopping girls from trying: A […]
X for the Veterans!
ScientificBlogging.com invites the military to join in the PLUR culture: Patriotism, Love, Unity and Respect. New research shows that if you really want to support […]
The sunken ocean.
Science Daily reveals something more lost than any lost continent – remnants of a time when an ocean itself sank and disappeared: Using new computer […]