One Step Closer to the Spotless Mind.
Did I post this before? I have no way of knowing. New Scientist tells me (for what I hope is the first time) that researchers […]
Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: 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 moreFart Stink Controls Blood Pressure.
Perhaps not heart-stoppingly foul, but, as LiveScience informs us, that distinctive smell is enough to give the circulatory system pause: The unpleasant aroma of the […]
Science Art: Polycera atra, Lateral View by F.M. MacFarland.
Click to embiggen slightly. Some call them sea slugs, but they’re so striking, so sensual, that nudibranch has to be the better term. From the […]
SONG: Now the Snow
SONG:Now the Snow. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “It’s snowing on Mars”, iTwire, 30 Sep 2008, as cited in the […]
Glowing Proteins; Less-Than-Glowing Prospects?
Recently, Dr. Roger Tsien earned a Nobel prize for his work in creating a stunning array of colorful, glowing proteins. Not only are they, like, […]
Big Stick.
Entolomologists working in Borneo have found what they believe to be world’s longest insect: PhysOrg writes: The specimen was found by a local villager and […]
Satellite Discovers Pyramid at Nazca.
You may have caught this on MSNBC, but Italian researchers studying imagery from the Quickbird satellite discovered a 97,000-square-foot pyramid on the banks of Peru’s […]
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 […]
QuarkDance!
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 […]