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 […]
Science 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: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreIce 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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