Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International
I’m quite fond of the aurochs. As the feared onager was to the domestic donkey, so the aurochs to domestic cattle. Onagers gave their name […]
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 moreQuarkDance!
At last! A peppy, eternal polka that illustrates the movements of subatomic particles! Found in this fun Hey, Poindexter! interview, which also includes the following […]
Bonobos: NOT Hippies.
For a while in the 1990s, it seemed like everybody wanted to be a pygmy chimp. A bonobono. All bonobos did, they said, was hang […]
Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.
WebMD reports on the first clinical application for using really big magnets to zap depressed people’s brain waves: The clearance comes nearly two years after […]
Mad Scientists For Obama
Far be it from this site to endorse a candidate for the American presidential election… …but who would Dr. Frankenstein vote for? As inspired by […]
Tracing the Evolution of Religion
BBC News recently covered a project at the intersection of theology and computer science, in which experts with scanners are digitizing and reassembling the world’s […]
Investigating the Roots of Traditional African Medicine.
A new research center is delving into a rich, as-yet-untapped reservoir of African medical knowledge, seeking new treatments for AIDS and other diseases by hoping, […]
Science Art: Explorer I
Click to embiggen A diagram. An iconic diagram. This is America’s answer to Sputnik, the Explorer I satellite, launched aboard the Jupiter C rocket on […]
The Light-Net.
Some bright scientists in Boston (with a little help from the government) are turning energy-efficient lights into flickering wireless repeaters: Gizmodo: The technology will be […]
Musicians have ambidextrous brains.
A new Vanderbilt University study demonstrates why learning an instrument and, like, rocking out can make your brain better – because musicians use both sides […]
Terror warnings undermine conservative candidates.
PhysOrg enters the presidential fray with a new UC Berkeley study that finds playing the terror card can backfire on political conservatives: …[A] new national […]
Columbia Astronaut’s Diary Recovered
AP is carrying a poignant story about Israel’s first astronaut, whose diary survived the Columbia’s explosion over Palestine, Texas: The U.S. space agency returned the […]
Sounds that should not be.
The aptly-named NoiseAddicts online magazine delves into some unusual research as Norwegian acoustic scientists study violinist Mari Kimura, who’s able to play sounds that she […]
Science Art: Gammarellus angulosus – Near Woods Hole
Click to embiggen. A crustacean with character. From the U.W. Freshwater and Marine Image Bank.
Testosterone fuels financial crisis.
The same hormone that makes men hairy (and both genders feel frisky) is to blame for the current mess on Wall Street, say researchers: Scientific […]