Gnarls Barkley on the Moog Etherwave Theremin.
I hope you’re enjoying your Thanksgiving, American readers. From the description of the video on YouTube: The main theremin was passed through iZotope Trash, an […]
Science Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreDvorak on the Matryomin.
In America, the Thanksgiving holiday starts today (more or less). To celebrate, The Guild of Scientific Troubadours will be reveling in the gorgeous sounds of […]
Surfer creates Theory of Everything.
If Einstein was around today, he’d probably surf, too. There’s a piece in the Telegraph (based, apparently, on a New Scientist clip) about Dr. A. […]
Roll out the solar!
Popular Science has named the nanosolar powersheet the “Best of What’s New 2007,” and for good reason. Instead of using big glass frames to generate […]
Jules Verne: Bleak Futurist
People nowadays look at Jules Verne as one of the forefathers of science fiction, anticipating amazing technological developments like swift, giant submarines and capsules landing […]
Science Art: Achelousaurus by Mariana Ruiz
A frilled dinosaur found in Montana, as imagined by science illustrator Mariana Ruiz Villarreal.
China’s electric bicycle problem
Sometimes, you just can’t win. You’d expect a country that’s embracing electric bicycles as an alternative to cars to be lauded as an environmental savior. […]
Fighting dirty against germs
Microbiologists have come up with a dirty new weapon in the war on MRSA, according to reports in Scientific American and Science News. The flesh-eating […]
AIDS: Around longer than you’d think.
Science News recently had a report on Michael Worobey’s work tracking AIDS. The common conception of this disease is that it struck America in the […]
And after the charge gives out, you make martinis.
The Interesting Thing of the Day blog presents an interesting solution to a problem that’s deeper than most people realize. The problem is all the […]
Giggle-bot is FRIEND!
Yep, scientists at UC San Diego seem to have found a way around the uncanny valley problem (the more “human” a robot, the creepier it […]
Virtual Mars mission – 500 days in a box.
The Chicago Tribune recently had a piece on Russia’s latest contribution to today’s space race. They’re prepping for a Mars flight by locking six people […]
Science Art: Milky Way Over Death Valley
Click for much bigger version. Panoramic photo of the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, by Dan Duriscoe.
“See” cucumbers.
OK, sorry for that headline. New Scientist reports that a University of South Florida researcher has found a way to replace human corneas with sea […]
You have to be-lieeeve in maaagic!
So sings Science Daily, reporting on new research reaffirming something plenty of superstitious types like me already know all too well. It’s actually good for […]