Want an A? Sleep in!
PhysOrg.com reports on research from Emek Yezreel College in Israel that proves that teenagers should sleep late for success: …[D]uring the first week, the experimental […]
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 moreSexy Spending.
LiveScience reveals the shocking truth that men do rash things when they see women in bikinis. Sexy stimuli don’t make men stupid, researchers at the […]
Fuligin is real.
Gene Wolfe wrote a few very good books about a far future world in which the main character wore a ceremonial cloak made of fuligin. […]
Lasers! Lasers!
Lasers! We can fire them into the clouds and they can summon the lightning! (says infoniac.com). And we can fire them at each other and […]
Science Art: Success!
Click to embiggen. The Phoenix landed on May 25, 2008, and promptly took a picture of its own leg. It’s a tradition. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, […]
Cheap, inflatable, drives over cliffs.
What is it? Gizmodo answers: The amazing inflatable, cliff-jumping car: It’ll be shipped to you in two boxes and take roughly two hours for two […]
NASA: “We suppressed global warming data. Sorry.”
It’s reports like these (a pdf) that challenge one’s sense of hope. On the other hand, at least we can read it now. Excerpts: On […]
BLDG BLOG, on monkeys, robots and Mars.
Quite simply, yes. Yes.
SONG: Bathysphere (penitential cover version)
SONG: “Bathysphere” (cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by SMOG, although I first heard the cover by Cat Power (scroll […]
Deadlier Rattlers?
LiveScience brings up the unpleasant possibility that rattlesnakes appear to be developing more toxic venom out West: “This is a brand new phenomenon,” said Jeffrey […]
Star Wars Holo-Tech.
The Age reports on the FUTURE finally arriving in the PRESENT in the form of moving 3d holograms! In what Telstra says is a national […]
Science Art: Rotating Tesseract.
Stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia’s “Fourth Dimension” article, where it illustrates a four-dimensional object rotating on one axis. The graphic was orginally uploaded by Jason Hise, […]
Viking DNA
LiveScience reports on the tantalizing possibility of creating a Jurassic Park for bearded boat-warriors: Jorgen Dissing of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues say they […]
Hairy Frog Breaks Own Bones to Create Claws.
Well, I’d certainly be terrified. Not only does this amphibian have hair, but New Scientist reports, it also snaps its own bones to create claws […]
No dengue fever, please. We’re British mosquitoes.
Nature (subscribers only) has announced that the plan to release sterile mosquitoes into the wild (mentioned months ago in this free Wired report) is going […]