This 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.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreNature reports on polar bears who appear to be adapting to climate change by altering their hunting strategies to survive in a world without sea ice:
… Read the rest “Polar bears without sea ice (a story of hope).”Researchers identified the genetically
A collection of crustaceans from a book by Amsterdam-based publisher Louis Renard on East Indian sea creatures. The illustrations were apparently done by Samuel Fallours, an artist employed… Read the rest “Science Art: Crabs (figures 212-216, Natuurlyke Historie, page 256, 1782.”
Science magazine takes a deep dive on the medical lives of dolphins, who appear to be intentionally using corals and other stuff growing on the reef as antibiotic treatments for itchy skin… Read the rest “Dolphins use corals and sponges as medicine – to treat their skin.”
Kids acquire languages better than adults do – everyone knows that. But Scientific American looks at researchers with Ghent University’s Eleonore Smalle who went just a … Read the rest “Exhaustion (or distraction) as a language-learning tool.”
Science News discusses two new studies that place the origins of domestic chickens in one specific place – Southeast Asia – and much more recently than we thought, and much … Read the rest “Chicken and rice go together – all the way to the origins of domestic fowl in grain fields.”
This is a microscope’s view of a plant’s stem, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition of 2011, which I can only assume was the forerunner… Read the rest “Science Art: Bole cross section of common hazel (Corylus avellana), by Annika Karusion, 2011”
EurekAlert! posts a peer-reviewed study published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics that shows a “quite dramatic” correlation between the removal of welfare and an … Read the rest “Sick of high crime? Support welfare. New study shows a dramatic link.”
This is a star spinning at 2 million kilometers per hour – so fast, it has made itself into its own twirling skirt, its own hula hoop, its own dervish robe.
As the European Space Agency… Read the rest “Science Art: Artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star (VFTS 102), by NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI).”
Scientific American looks at looking at. That is, the magazine – through an essay by systems neuroscientist György Buzsáki – surveys how it is that the human mind detects the… Read the rest “The brain is not a blank slate. Here’s how it shapes what you see, what you don’t see, and what you think you know.”
They had strange, branching forms, says Popular Science as they look over fossils from Newfoundland. And they took off centuries before the so-called “Cambrian explosion”… Read the rest “The first animal communities are way, way older than you might think. (And weirder, too.)”
Space.com is calling the mysterious set of signals a “telemetry issue,” and experts say it shouldn’t be surprising that an interstellar ship launched 45 years ago … Read the rest “Voyager 1, the world’s most faraway space probe, is sending back weird signals.”
The American Ornithologists’ Union published a journal called The Auk in 1914, with articles in it like “A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider,” and “The Fallacy… Read the rest “Science Art: Title Page, The Auk, Vol. XXXI, 1914.”
BBC reports on a study reassembling the genome of a man and woman preserved for centuries under the ash of Pompeii, and what the ancient DNA can teach us today:
… Read the rest “Reading the DNA from Pompeii”The two people were first discovered
Reuters describes the Looty Project as one man’s crusade to finance new artists in Nigeria and Benin by selling NFTs minted from 3D images of looted artifacts displayed in European… Read the rest ““Looty”: using NFTs to steal back looted African artworks, digitally.”
I have a great musical track, a hummed melody, a couple ideas about pseudosatellites and diddly-squat words.
More when I can get some words, and then a penitential cover.
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