SONG: Beautiful (Have Another Plum)
SONG: “Beautiful (Have Another Plum)” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Baboon Birth Control” entry, from “Primates on the Pill”, New Scientist, […]
Science 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 moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
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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: Astronomers […]
Baby powder soothes earthquakes
Nature eases chafing on a tectonic level: Researchers drilling deep into the San Andreas fault in California report in today’s Nature the presence of talc […]
Science Art: William Herschel Telescope
from Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Picture Archives, (via Barbelith).
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 […]
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 […]
The knee bone’s connected to the… pancreas bone?
PhysOrg blows our minds with the discovery that our skeletons are actually endocrine glands: Karsenty and his colleagues had previously shown that leptin, a hormone […]
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 […]
Perseids + New Moon =
Go outside tomorrow night and look up. Look up! Keep looking up! Trust us on this one.
Ancient germs reborn
From New Scientist comes a fun story about prehistoric bacteria being brought back to life by meddling scientists: Kay Bidle of Rutgers University in New […]
I Want My UFO
Moller International, a company that’s been trying to market flying cars for a long while now, has finally made its breakthrough, reports LiveScience: [I]t looks […]
Science Tattoos
Some researchers wear their subjects of study underneath their sleeves. I quite like the octopus….
Nerdcore soldiers on
Via the MC Hawking blog comes word of the irresistible, meteoric rise of nerdcore, as declared by the New York Times last Sunday: Many nerdcore […]
Sleep Eaters
Discover lifts the veil on unusual nocturnal behavior – the phenomenon of sleep eating: Except for the trail of crumbs and gooey messes that confront […]
JokeBot UNBOUND
New Scientist on the dawn of the Humortron 3000: Now Julia Taylor and Lawrence Mazlack of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio have built a […]