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 & […]
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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1 Arm
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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 moreThe 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 – […]
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 […]