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 […]
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 moreScience 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 – […]
Hard Decision? Don’t think about it.
This seems natural to me, but also seems like the kind of thing that drives more literally minded thinkers out of their heads. A University […]
Science Art: Early Stages of Hubble Construction, 1980.
Click to embiggen Taken at the Lockheed facility, the image shows “the optical metering truss and secondary baffle.” And important-looking people in orange jumpsuits, evidently […]
The Mirror-eyes of the Spookfish.
New Scientist sheds light on a deep-sea mystery – a bizarre fish eye that mirrors rather than lenses: The most important source of light at […]
“Charlie” by Chumbawumba. A Darwinian folk song.
Chumbawumba are, of course, best known for that inexplicable “I Get Knocked Down” song. They’re actually a keenly politically aware group of protest poets, about […]
Pink Iguana!
PopSci believes that pink iguanas are real. Because, as it turns out, pink iguanas are real! Even after the first pink iguana sighting came in […]
Trophy Heads of Nazca.
The same mysterious civilization that left us the lines and inspirational giant pyramids also left puzzling piles of human heads… and PhysOrg.com reports that the […]
Be Boring.
No! Say it ain’t so! The Overcoming Bias blog has this study from the Journal of Experimental Psychology that shows that interesting details interfere with […]