This is a light experiment from the 1600s, which I found in the British Library archive over yonder.
The b…
Read moreThis is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read o…
Read moreFifty-two breeds of chickens!
This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Bo…
Read moreThis is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, …
Read moreAn image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Imag…
Read moreSciAm’s news blog reveals the Simpsonization of cosmology:
… Read the rest “Perfectly cromulent for publication”I emailed Kachru, one of the most prominent younger researchers working on string theory, to get the back-story. Here’s
Via Wired’s Danger Room comes news from the US Army’s Future Combat Systems.
They need a new name because we’re already living in the future:
… Read the rest “The future is now.”The Army has decided that
Discover raises a slippery space question… as if NASA didn’t have enough scandal to deal with lately:
… Read the rest “The 62-mile-high club”When missions lasted no more than a few weeks at a time, discretion was
From New Scientist comes news of the womb-on-a-chip:
… Read the rest “My Mechanical Mom”Fujii’s team has created a “lab on a chip” that is 2 millimetres across and 0.5 millimetres high, in which up to 20
New Scientist reports that predatory jumbo squid have returned to California’s coast… and may be there to stay:
… Read the rest “Maybe “overlords” isn’t an exaggeration”Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters
From Salon comes assurance that we are not alone:
… Read the rest “The Amygdaloids”All right, the occasion wasn’t a concert but a graduation ceremony for 10,000 students in the New York University College of Arts
Nature plumbs the depths of one of the most mysterious processes in medicine.
Researchers have found that the placebo effect – when “fake” medicine creates real results… Read the rest “Pleasure and placebo”
The New Yorker, of all publications, has a fascinating Ian Parker article on the natural history of the bonobo – the sexy primate that’s supposed to choose orgies over fighting… Read the rest “The Noble Bonobo”
Nature brings new observations of Ice Volcanoes in Outer Space.
… Read the rest “Ice Volcanoes of Charon!”Cook speculates that liquid water deep within Charon’s core is mixed with ammonia, which acts like antifreeze and
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.”
New Scientist reports on African primates using natural contraceptives from, of all things, plums:
… Read the rest “Baboon birth control (Do you dare to eat a plum?)”Like the synthetic progestogens used in the pill, phyto-progestogens have a hormonal
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”
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”
On the one hand:
China had more wars in cold weather
… Read the rest “Weather in China”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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