Memory and meditation.
You’d expect that meditation would improve your ability to remember things, I suppose. But this study mentioned in New Scientist shows that it really depends […]
Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Aard-wolf, Webster’s New International
Proteles cristata, the earth-wolf of southern Africaraman amplifier. He’s got a guilty look about him, doesn’t he? He knows what the other hyenas have been […]
SONG: 64 Actuators
SONG: “64 Actuators” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies”, IEEE Spectrum, 18 March 2009, as […]
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 […]
Ammā 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” […]