SONG: Build us a House (They Could See From Space)
SONG: “Build us a House (They Could See From Space).” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Ancient Peru pyramid spotted by […]
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…
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The Grave of the Priestess
LiveScience is calling her a “shaman,” but since the 12,000-year-old grave is in Israel, not Siberia, that’s probably not exactly the right term. But whatever […]
Hollywood, Meet Science.
New Scientist thrills me with a new push to get the entertainment industry to understand science: The new effort, called the Science and Entertainment Exchange, […]
Neither Chinese Chickens Nor Uighur Eggs.
China is a complicated country, and the closer people look, the more complicated it gets. Take, for example, the latest findings on the mummies of […]
The Egg. The Egg Came First.
Canadian paleontologists have answered the old conundrum by closely studying a fossilized dinosaur nest: LiveScience.com, via Yahoo! News: …[I]nterpreted literally, the answer to the riddle […]
Of Wind and Fish.
MSNBC recently reported on an unusual idea – that offshore wind farms would be not only good for creating clean energy, but they’d also boost […]
A Cure for Old Age. (And AIDS.) From Chinese Medicine…
It sure sounds too good to be true, but New Scientist is talking about new UCLA research on astralagus, a plant that’s almost as widely […]
Science Art: Io before Jupiter.
Click to embiggen Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds. […]
Rock Will Save The Planet
OK, it’s a specific kind of rock: CleanTechnica.com: Scientists at Columbia University have discovered that a rock found in the Middle East can be used […]
Nature Deficit Disorder?
Seed contributor Jonah Lehrer posts to Scienceblogs about the brain-boosting effects of a stroll in the woods: Because you can’t help but stop and notice […]
Best Science Headline Contender:
From the British paper The Register, reporting on the ammonia-laden refrigerator being ejected from the International Space Station: ASTRONAUT SPACE DUMP PONG-BOMB FRAG SHOWER TODAY […]
Steampunk Laughs Last: Hydrogen from Solar.
PhysOrg.com reveals the unexpected origin of a new alternative energy technology – it isn’t new at all: …[I]t may seem a bit out of place […]
Electric Eel Power
PhysOrg reports on a slithery new power source – the eel generator: Electric eels channel the output of thousands of specialized cells called electrocytes to […]
Science Art: Dykeri, fig 6, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen In my deep-sea diving suit. Found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
For That Atomic Guitar Sound.
New Scientist goes behind the music to tell the real story of Manchester rocker and physics prof Andrew Murray, who figured out a new way […]