Cyber-insects taking off.
Wired’s Danger Room blog now has me imagining what it would be like to come under attack from a buzzing swarm of remote-controlled rhinoceros beetles: […]
Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: 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 morePleistocence Park?
Not dinosaurs, but mammoths. I’d like to ride a mammoth. Wouldn’t you? New Scientist teases us with the possibility we can soon ride mammoths… or […]
Science Art: The Dry Frost of Mars.
Click to embiggen. On Mars, the polar ice caps grow and shrink with the seasons, just like on Earth. But unlike Earth, the Martian ice […]
Song delayed: penitential cover will be forthcoming.
I’m blowing this month’s deadline in a big way, I think – moving out of my house this week. Many things in boxes. Phone & […]
The jitters. The voices. Freshen your cup?
SciAm launches a new volley in the war on drugs – specifically an exotic plant known to some as “Psychotria.” On the street, it’s likely […]
The Rat-Planned City.
Tel Aviv researchers are revolutionizing urban design, PhysOrg.com reports, by designing cities for rats. Normally thought of as vermin, the critters can navigate the street […]
Big Boom. Boom. Boom.
NASA likes listening to space, because it’s kind of noisy up there. Somewhere in the background there are echoes of the Big Bang, and if […]
Science Art: Afrikanska kulturföremål_2, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen. Norwegian encyclopedists behold African artifacts. Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
The Guild was on the air.
And if you’d like to listen, it’s archived over yonder, or if you’d like to download, try this link here. The excellently edited voice of […]
Beyond the Twittering Phoenix.
It’s hard to imagine the Mercury Seven swapping SuperPokes, but today’s space agency is a different kind of organization. Maybe. You can find out yourself […]
The Guild Is In The Loop.
So I just back from recording a segment for In the Loop, a show from Minnesota Public Radio where it is now unspeakably cold. We […]
The World’s First Scientist.
The BBC has a fun piece on the fellow most English speakers might not recognize, even though he’s the guy who invented the scientific method: […]
Love is… a natural deodorant?
New Scientist uncorks the peculiar way passion affects our scents, by blanketing would-be competitors with the smell of love: In a series of trials, each […]
Love is… mosquitoes buzzing in harmony.
The BBC has video up of romancing mosquitoes creating their high, keening love songs: Males and females each have their own characteristic flight tone – […]