Health Magnet.
LiveScience notices something odd that’ll have some hard-minded skeptics practicing their eyebrow raises. Medical magnets – one of the old staples of alternative medicine… Read the rest “Health Magnet.”
SONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: We Ate Each Other's Wings
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: “Anatomical Man,” Les Très Riches Heures by Duc de Berry
Human anatomy explained as an allegory for astrology, or vice versa. From the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
The King of Paper Airplanes.
New Scientist reports on Japanese space scientists creating origami that’s out of this world:
… Read the rest “The King of Paper Airplanes.”The origami space plane will be a similar design, Suzuki says, but only about 20 centimetres
Elephants evolve smaller tusks.
The Telegraph reports on the strange findings of Iain Douglas Hamilton and his colleagues, who appear to have discovered evidence that elephants are evolving smaller tusks due to ivory… Read the rest “Elephants evolve smaller tusks.”
SONG: You’ve Got Power
SONG: “You’ve Got Power” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2007:… Read the rest “SONG: You’ve Got Power”
That stuff you’re breathing.
Nature discusses new findings about how we’ll all get superpowers, like heat vision and wings, just by breathing! Well, what they really said was that air pollution mutates sperm… Read the rest “That stuff you’re breathing.”
It flowers itself to death
New Scientist reports on a frankly bizarre palm tree just discovered by a family picnicking in Madagascar:
… Read the rest “It flowers itself to death”“It’s a species that is so significant from all sorts of perspectives,
Science Art: Aeshna cyanea – head close-up
A common dragonfly as seen in an uncommon way by Wikimedia Commons user "Aka."
Drug for cold turkey.
The Journal of Ethnopharmacology has a survey of a subculture that could turn addiction therapy on its ear – an informal alliance of people using the psychedelic drug ibogaine to … Read the rest “Drug for cold turkey.”
Next step: the monkey cyborg revolution!
The New York Times unveils the creation of the world’s first globally activated monkey-guided robots:
… Read the rest “Next step: the monkey cyborg revolution!”On Thursday, an alert and ready-to-work Idoya stepped onto her treadmill
It’s an odd universe.
That’s right. AP is reporting on an announcement from the American Astronomical Society that the universe is more violent and awe-inspiring than previously thought:
… Read the rest “It’s an odd universe.”The research
You’re not real
Dude.
What if, like…
…like, the WHOLE UNIVERSE was just…
…like, made up, maaan? Like it was all VIRTUAL REALITY, man? (asks the latest New Scientist):
… Read the rest “You’re not real”Brian Whitworth
Turn the Brain Back On
ScienceDaily has news from researchers in Los Angeles who found that a single injection with a drug that’s already used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis reverses Alzheimer’s… Read the rest “Turn the Brain Back On”
Science Art: Pediastrum boryanum
This is an Environmental Protection Agency photograph from the Great Lakes Image Collection, showing green algae up close.
Phytoplankton like this makes up the base of the food chain –… Read the rest “Science Art: Pediastrum boryanum”
The Super-Soaker Engine
Popular Mechanics sheds light on an inventor’s all-new approach to getting power from the sun:
… Read the rest “The Super-Soaker Engine”The Atlanta-based independent inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun (a true technological