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 […]
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 moreBLDG BLOG, on monkeys, robots and Mars.
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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 […]
Science Art: “Rosetta Stone”
There it is – the key that unlocked ancient Egypt. One message in three alphabets. From the Library of Christian Theological Seminary, found on Wikimedia […]
SONG: Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltonii
SONG: “Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltonii” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Colossal Squid Comes Out Of Ice”, BBC News, 28 April 2008, as used […]
Three Red Spots.
New Scientist on the third-largest hurricane in the solar system: Now, a third red spot, about half the size of Red Spot Junior, has broken […]
Nanotube Trouble.
Rice University researchers – some of the pioneers of nanotechnology – have declared that carbon nanotubes may be… may be… as dangerous as asbestos: …[T]he […]
Don’t Tell Me You Love Me.
Scientific American ruins my naive illusions about love with their expose of the orgasmic mind: Neuroscientist Gert Holstege of the University of Groningen in the […]
My Sister, My Stomach.
Well. LiveScience shares the news of a 9-year-old girl in Greece discovering that she actually had a twin sister… growing inside her stomach: “They could […]