The 62-mile-high club
Discover raises a slippery space question… as if NASA didn’t have enough scandal to deal with lately: When missions lasted no more than a few […]
SONG: 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 …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel
Chaetopoda by Ernst Haeckel. More incredible illustrations by him here.
My Mechanical Mom
From New Scientist comes news of the womb-on-a-chip: Fujii’s team has created a “lab on a chip” that is 2 millimetres across and 0.5 millimetres […]
Maybe “overlords” isn’t an exaggeration
New Scientist reports that predatory jumbo squid have returned to California’s coast… and may be there to stay: Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters […]
The Amygdaloids
From Salon comes assurance that we are not alone: All right, the occasion wasn’t a concert but a graduation ceremony for 10,000 students in the […]
Pleasure and placebo
Nature plumbs the depths of one of the most mysterious processes in medicine. Researchers have found that the placebo effect – when “fake” medicine creates […]
The Noble Bonobo
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 […]
Ice Volcanoes of Charon!
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 […]
SONG: A World Without Us.
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 […]
Baboon birth control (Do you dare to eat a plum?)
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 […]
Schizophrenia in Paradise
Science News reports on Trouble in Paradise – how feelings of “social defeat” could be responsible for triggering schizophrenia, which might explain why the otherwise […]
Instrument construction: Bowed Psaltery
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 […]
Weather in China
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 […]
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