Tom Giesler: My Anatomy
Tom Giesler does anatomical charts of emotional states. You should see them. For a visceral thrill, you understand.
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 moreSarah Palin, Creationist Politician.
I’m sure Governor Palin has many fine qualities, but, according to Wired, her science policy appears not to be one of them: In a 2006 […]
Large Hadron Rap
Yes, the LHC is exciting. I own that. But is it *this* exciting? That’s a bunch of particle physicists (I think) dancing inside the LHC […]
Rainy weekends are all our fault.
New Scientist adds insult to injury by telling us that not only does it really rain more often on our days off, but that our […]
Baby Talk 101.
Keep it simple, short and repetitive! That’s what an international team of neurological researchers covered in PhysOrg.com found when they scanned infants’ brains while saying, […]
Morphine plus pot equals, like, no pain, man.
From the trenches of the War on Drugs comes a New Scientist pharmaceutical report that’s bound to have doctors and pain patients alike going “Duuuude.” […]
Science Art: Honey Ant, Webster’s New International
Does anyone else remember these from Insects Do The Strangest Things? Oh, what a fine children’s book that is. From Webster’s New International Dictionary of […]
The iPhone girl.
This isn’t research as much as social observation, but have you heard about the iPhone girl? I noticed her story on reddit but she’s popping […]
The keen migratory instincts of cows.
It seems like this story hit everywhere at once, but it’s still marvelous. Here’s the BBC version of how cows always face north: Images from […]
Unplugged.
So, the BBC is talking about one of Nikola Tesla’s dreams (he of the AC current and the plasma ball) coming true in an Intel […]
Hello, Poindexter.
You may or may not have noticed a new link in the “fellow travellers” area down there on the right. It’s to Hello, Poindexter!, the […]
Science Art: Red Dwarf Flare
Click to embiggen vastly From the NASA Image Galleries: On April 25, 2008, NASA’s Swift satellite picked up a record-setting flare from a star known […]
SONG: When the Lights Go Out.
SONG: “When the Lights Go Out.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Sleep-deprived brains alternate between normal activity and ‘power failure’”, […]
Bad choices and birth control.
LiveScience makes clear that sometimes, contraception isn’t the best decision. Or, well, doesn’t help you make the best decisions… because birth control pills befuddle women’s […]
The plausibly deniable death ray.
The great thing about laser weapons, New Scientist says, isn’t just that you can fry your enemy from miles away. You can also shrug your […]