Ancient High.
Dude. Cannabis researchers in China have found world’s oldest stash: CBC reports: Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a […]
Science 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: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: Gathering the Ripe Pods of the Cacao, or Chocolate, Tree
Click to embiggen Scanned from The Encyclopedia of Food (The stories of foods by which we live, how and where they grow and are marketed, […]
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower….
Technology Review covers the breakthrough of MIT chemist Daniel Nocera, who has figured out how to make like a leaf… and turn sunlight into fuel: […]
Gift Guide: CHEMISTRY!
The glorious MAKE blog has the scientific gift guide of my dreams: chemistry sets and DIY books for garage explosives experts and drug manufacturers. No, […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Thomas Grillo.
Here, for your enjoyment, is a theremin concert by a master: Thomas Grillo lives and teaches in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as educating the general […]
Science Art: Argonauta, Webster’s New International
From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, MA, [found here.]
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 […]
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 […]