SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreThis 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”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreNational 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)” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: “Baboon Birth Control” entry, from… Read the rest “SONG: Beautiful (Have Another Plum)”
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
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
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)”
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.”
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,
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…”
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
Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience:
… Read the rest “I Want My UFO”[I]t looks like flying saucer
Some researchers wear their subjects of study underneath their sleeves.
I quite like the octopus….
Via the MC Hawking blog comes word of the irresistible, meteoric rise of nerdcore, as declared by the New York Times last Sunday:
… Read the rest “Nerdcore soldiers on”Many nerdcore anthems — “You Got Asperger’s” by MC Frontalot,
Discover lifts the veil on unusual nocturnal behavior – the phenomenon of sleep eating:
… Read the rest “Sleep Eaters”Except for the trail of crumbs and gooey messes that confront her in the morning—and a nauseous
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