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…
Read moreScience magazine offers a briefing on a paste modeled on barnacle glue that sticks to wet surfaces within 15 seconds – making it a perfect coagulant to stop bleeding wounds:
… Read the rest “Barnacle glue saves lives.”The marine
This diagram came from an article called “Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery” by John C. Ruddock, a Naval Reserve Medical Corps commander, and Charles C. Stehly, a US… Read the rest “Science Art: Schematic Drawing Showing (Left) Normal Origin and Distribution of the Coronary Arteries…, 1943.”
Popular Science takes us over a bridge built inside a Fribourg, Switzerland, laboratory entirely out of re-used concrete – a thrifty construction technique that could help cut … Read the rest “It’s possible to recycle concrete, and this Swiss bridge proves it.”
SONG: “Rocks in the Sky”.
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SOURCE: NASA Press Release, 16 Oct 21, “NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation,” as used in the… Read the rest “SONG: Rocks in the Sky”
Oh, a beautiful Renaissance landscape by one of those Lowland masters, a naturalistic scene of people meeting merrily on a wooded path between the village center and some large, important… Read the rest “Science Art: Magpie on the Gallows, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568”
I’ve got a melody, I’ve got a subject, but the words aren’t here yet. Mea maxima culpa. A song and two penitential covers shall arrive.
Scientific American commentator Mason Marks, a law professor, examines three roads to making psilocybin easier for researchers – and people who need clinical help – to work… Read the rest “SciAm considers ways to make magic mushrooms, if not legal, at least less illegal.”
NASA has launched a probe named Lucy, after the Australopithecus fossil that rewrote the story of human origins. This Lucy’s job is to check out asteroids for even more ancient traces,… Read the rest “Lucy is NASA’s mission to find “fossils” in space.”
Scientific American looks at scientific Kenyans, who have taken advantage of one of the few things elephants are actually afraid of – stinging honeybees – to keep their fields… Read the rest “African farmers use bee hives as elephant-proof fences.”
This is a chameleon seen inside and out in Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire naturelle des animaux, by Claude Perrault, an early text on natural history with all kinds of exotic … Read the rest “Science Art: Caméleon, Sébastien Le Clerc, 1676”
Euronews.com reports on a new use for robots, to enforce social mores and good citizenship. Citizens seem less than pleased with the artificial politeness police, however:
… Read the rest “Singapore robots patrol against “anti-social behavior.””Called “Xavier,”
Reuters reports that the Chinese moon mission brought back rock samples that were about a billion years younger than expected – meaning the molten early moon cooled much slower than… Read the rest “China’s moon mission found something interesting.”
Welcome to Cleveland, spaceman! This was a training device from what was the Lewis Research Center and is now the John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
It was located inside the… Read the rest “Science Art: The MASTIF, or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility.”
NOAA accomplished a world first when category-4 Hurricane Sam raged across the middle Atlantic, by sending an automated vessel named Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 into the 50-foot waves … Read the rest “Robot sailboat shoots video inside a major hurricane.”
Discover magazine discusses an unusual problem we haven’t had to face yet. How will Mars colonists handle their first funerals in an environment where human bodies don’t … Read the rest “Planning for a funeral on Mars.”
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