Science Art: <i>Cyamus boopis, Lütken</i>, 1895.

Science Art: <i>Figures preparing the Sutton Hoo ship for burial</i>, Craig Williams

SONG: The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees.

Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.

Science Art: <i>Transit of Venus in 2012</i>.

Science Art: <i>Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT</i>, by Didier Descouens

Science Art: Cyamus boopis, Lütken, 1895.

Cyamis boopis is one of the cyamidae better known as a whale louse.

This particular species is from Scandin…

Science Art: Figures preparing the Sutton Hoo ship for burial, Craig Williams

This is an illustration from the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo Collection, studying the grave (and buried treasur…

SONG: The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees.

SONG: “The Temples Resurrect These Fallen Trees”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Th…

Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.

That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the wo…

Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.

This is Venus, moving in front of the Sun. Technically, I suppose it’s a lot of Venuses, or a chain of a lot of…

Science Art: Pterophorus pentadactyla MHNT, by Didier Descouens

This is an image of a white plume moth, a photograph taken of a specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse in August of…

Ice Volcanoes of Charon!

24 July 2007 grant b 0

Nature brings new observations of Ice Volcanoes in Outer Space.

Cook speculates that liquid water deep within Charon’s core is mixed with ammonia, which acts like antifreeze and

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SONG: A World Without Us.

23 July 2007 grant b 3

SONG: “A World Without Us” _{(To download: right-click & “Save As”)}

ARTIST: grant. I’m the guy who put this questionable site up on the internet for… Read the rest “SONG: A World Without Us.”

Baboon birth control (Do you dare to eat a plum?)

21 July 2007 grant b 2

New Scientist reports on African primates using natural contraceptives from, of all things, plums:

Like the synthetic progestogens used in the pill, phyto-progestogens have a hormonal

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Science News reports on Trouble in Paradise – how feelings of “social defeat” could be responsible for triggering schizophrenia, which might explain why the otherwise… Read the rest “Schizophrenia in Paradise”

Instrument construction: Bowed Psaltery

17 July 2007 grant b 0

How to make a bowed psaltery.

And, in case you’re wondering: What IS a bowed psaltery anyway? Why, it’s something like a cimbalom… or maybe even a ukelin! No, really!… Read the rest “Instrument construction: Bowed Psaltery”

Weather in China

16 July 2007 grant b 0

On the one hand:

China had more wars in cold weather

Most of the armed conflicts in eastern China over the past 1,000 years were triggered by food shortages caused by climate, say researchers.

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