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.)
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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…
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This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers got up close … Read the rest “Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.”
Hakai Magazine (via Smithsonian) shares some discoveries from the Bluefish Caves in the northern Yukon, where archaeologists have unearthed clues to a whole human society that flourished… Read the rest “The earliest North Americans were hanging out hunting horses in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.”
Discover reports on the growing field of “scent researchers” who are attempting to bring back smells that have long since gone away, and to record the smells we’ve got… Read the rest “On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.”
Science News has unfortunate news for arachnophobes who like relaxing in bamboo furniture. For the first time in more than a century, a new species of tarantula has been discovered in Asia,… Read the rest “We discovered a new kind of tarantula. It lives inside bamboo.”
In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story “Saga of the Earth Nut”… Read the rest “Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.”
ABC News reports on an unintended consequence of the war in Ukraine that’s creating a tricky situation far overhead. American astronaut Mark Vande Hei, currently serving aboard… Read the rest “Russia’s war reaches into space, leaving an American astronaut potentially stranded.”
Archaeology Today has the news – heartwrenching to Austrians, joyous to Italians – that one of the world’s most famous figurines, the round-bodied Venus of Willendorf,… Read the rest “Venus of Willendorf actually not of Willdendorf – she’s Italian!”
This is a chromolithograph by James Ackerman made of a watercolor by Seth Eastman who was copying an Ojibwe music board – a birchwood slab somebody picked up in the Northern Great Lakes… Read the rest “Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851”
Nature reports on the discovery of an unusually advanced settlement in East Asia. Around 40,000 years ago, when Denisovans, Neanderthals, and the very first Homo sapiens were replacing… Read the rest “Prehistoric pigment points to archaic brain trust.”
Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the gut bacteria… Read the rest ““Difficult” bacteria has chainmail to protect it from antibiotics.”
There’s a new space telescope getting ready to do its thing now, but here’s a look back to when the last one was brand new. It’s a NASA image hosted by the San Diego Air and… Read the rest “Science Art: The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted into the workstands…, 1990”
Space.com introduces a new wrinkle in the growing space-junk problem. There’s so much stuff flying around us, we’re no longer sure where it came from or how long it’s… Read the rest “Somebody’s rocket is about to crash into the moon. We’re not really sure whose.”
SONG: “Remember Your Hands”.
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SOURCE: Science News 31 Jan 2022, “A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation,” as used in … Read the rest “SONG: Remember Your Hands”
An ad from the first issue of the Journal of the Society for Informational Display. This machine could receive up to 26 teletype messages of 145 characters each (so longer than pre-2017 tweets),… Read the rest “Science Art: United Aircraft Display Transmssion Generator ad, 1964.”
Popular Science shares Volvo’s vision for the next generation of automobile manufacture. Not only are they using electric motors, but they’re putting together the vehicles… Read the rest ““Mega-casting” will replace lots of little car parts with one big piece of metal.”
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