Psychedelic Paintball
Wired‘s “Danger Room” reports on like, wow, man, that’s one *TRIPPY* gun:
… Read the rest “Psychedelic Paintball”Paintballs laced with mind-altering drugs and drug-spraying robots sound like something
Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB
These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French…
Read moreScience Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011
I found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the othe…
Read moreScience Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You..., 1966
A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that wo…
Read moreScience Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT
Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI.
From the image description on Wikimedia C…
Read moreSONG: Jet Lagged
SONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal j…
Read moreScience Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .
The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking …
Read moreT. rex could have caught us.
New Scientist strikes fear into the hearts of time travelers everywhere with a report that T. rex could have caught humans. Easily.
Which is kind of a “No, duh,” observation,… Read the rest “T. rex could have caught us.”
Science Art: Compact Muon Solenoid of the Large Hadron Collider
This is how CERN is hoping to find the Higgs Boson.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Compact Muon Solenoid of the Large Hadron Collider”At 40 feet long, it is the biggest superconducting solenoid ever made, costing $65 million, weighing about 485,000 pounds, and containing
You’ll put an eye out.
Behold the science of engineering. LEGO engineering.
Forbidden Lego is a book by master builders Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley.
As a teaser, here’s a pdf of plans for building a … Read the rest “You’ll put an eye out.”
Giant “living fossil” fish on the brink
National Geographic reports on another Chinese river-dweller struggling to survive – the giant sturgeon, also known as the “underwater panda”:
… Read the rest “Giant “living fossil” fish on the brink”Adult sturgeons,
SONG: Beautiful (Have Another Plum)
SONG: “Beautiful (Have Another Plum)” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Baboon Birth Control” entry, from… Read the rest “SONG: Beautiful (Have Another Plum)”
Mira, The Tail Star
We’ve been watching this thing for four centuries, and we only now noticed it had a tail, as Nature reports. A really long tail:
… Read the rest “Mira, The Tail Star”Astronomers have found an unexpected treat on a star
Baby powder soothes earthquakes
Nature eases chafing on a tectonic level:
… Read the rest “Baby powder soothes earthquakes”Researchers drilling deep into the San Andreas fault in California report in today’s Nature the presence of talc inside a relatively sedate
Speed of Light: BROKEN (in a teeny-tiny way)
Researchers Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen of the University of Koblenz have told New Scientist (and other sources) that they’ve broken the light barrier, sending photons … Read the rest “Speed of Light: BROKEN (in a teeny-tiny way)”
Smoke ’em while the voices tell you it’s OK.
There’s been some press lately about studies that show a correlation between marijuana smoking and psychosis – as in, smoke dope, increase your risk of developing psychotic… Read the rest “Smoke ’em while the voices tell you it’s OK.”
The knee bone’s connected to the… pancreas bone?
PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands:
… Read the rest “The knee bone’s connected to the… pancreas bone?”Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone released by fat cells,
Science Art: Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis…
Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in 1552.
from the National… Read the rest “Science Art: Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis…”
Ancient germs reborn
From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists:
… Read the rest “Ancient germs reborn”Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and his colleagues