I’m on Rumblefish.
How very unexpected. But pleasant nonetheless.
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 moreSkySails: Success!
The new age of sail can start now.
SONG: My Fingertips Are Weightless.
SONG: “My Fingertips Are Weightless” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Origami spaceplane aims for space station descent”, New Scientist, 21 January […]
Science Art: Tröpfchentextur
A microscopic image of liquid crystal by Wikimedia Commons user "Minutemen." Happy Easter.
Expelled from Expelled.
You’ve no doubt heard of the Ben Stein movie extolling the virtues of Intelligent Design and bemoaning the fact that it isn’t being allowed in […]
Space Boomerang: Conclusion.
It came back. They’re not sure why.
Music Brain.
Science News rhapsodizes over Johns Hopkins research into what happens in musicians’ brains that makes the music happen: “What we think is happening is that […]
Obama’s laser guns and medi-beams.
You might think that Wired is misguided when it publishes reports on our nation building tactical laser weapons and healing devices made from LEDs (the […]
6e+13 picoseconds of silence for Arthur C. Clarke.
Arthur C. Clarke’s last message to the world: So many of his wishes have already come true. From the BBC: “Sir Arthur has left written […]
The Naming of Cats is a Serious Matter.
Washington Post reports on the one of the deepest mysteries of the animal world – the strange history of the domestic cat: In one of […]
No pizza, no laundry, no one can hear you scream.
Yeah, it’s feature news from ABC, but still – betcha didn’t know what astronauts have to put up with: You can’t freeze-dry pizza or dehydrate […]
Long life. Little women.
New Scientist reports on geneticists who might have isolated the specific genes for longevity: [T]he [Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University] team… identified […]
Science Art: The Magnificent Sombrero Galaxy
Click for larger image This is a visible-light image of M-104, the Sombrero Galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. If our eyes were sharp […]
Is it the munchies?
Medicinenet has a real downer of a report, dude. Stoners are more likely to contract severe gum disease: After controlling for other risk factors for […]
Light from Salmon what???
Endgadget is freaking out over a joint University of Cincinnati/Air Force breakthrough creating an environmentally friendly light source, called BioLEDs, out of salmon sperm: The […]