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…
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Reinhold Thiele painted this limber-looking blue shark for the book British Salt-Water Fishes.
I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but they got it from University of Washington’s … Read the rest “Science Art: Blue Shark (Carcharias glaucus), 1904.”
Science News looks at a case of climate change from millions of years before humans existed – a series of volcanic eruptions that caused 2 million years of rainstorms, which paved … Read the rest “Volcanoes let dinosaurs happen – by changing the climate.”
MIT Review has one for the “strange days” file. An internal 2019 report leaked by a Facebook analyst found that 19 of the 20 most popular Christian groups on Facebook were actually… Read the rest “Facebook’s fake, troll-farm Christians.”
These are not headphones, exactly. This is a thing made of telephone parts designed to help electrical tinkerers do better tinkering.
It’s from a page called “Latest Patents”… Read the rest “Science Art: Phone Tester for Electric Circuits, Patent No. 1,187,500; issued to G. B. Raymond.”
Science presents hard evidence that humans really were in North America at the time of the last Ice Age, along with giant sloths and glyptodonts:
… Read the rest “Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.”Despite a plethora of archaeological research
SONG: “I Chant”.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian, 23 Feb 2021, “Archaeologists in Egypt Discover Mummy With Gold Tongue,” as used in the post “Mummified… Read the rest “SONG: I Chant”
Science Daily goes deep beneath an Italian mountain range, where the XENON1T experiment got some strange results … that might give us humans our first handle on what dark energy is… Read the rest “We might have just detected dark matter.”
This is a triops, a three-eyed critter something like a trilobite (though it’s not actually one of those at all). From the Wikimedia Commons description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Triops longicaudatus, by Steve Jurvetson, 2005”This relic from the Devonian
CNN Business reveals that robots, having basically taken over manufacturing jobs, are now moving into service industry positions, replacing wait staff at a Latin restaurant in Dallas… Read the rest “Robots are waiting tables in Texas.”
LiveScience (via ScienceAlert) is puzzling over two polished stone spheres found in a Neolithic site on the isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The stones resemble similar finds across Scandinavia… Read the rest “Strange, ancient Scottish balls.”
Science reports on an Icelandic project going to a whole new level – they’re following the Krafla Volcano’s path and digging beyond the Earth’s crust into magma… Read the rest “Drilling for magma.”
This is a picture of bones, the mineral density of bones, giving us a hint of their interior structures.
From the NIH Image Gallery description:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.”This image shows micro computed tomograophy
The Guardian reports on Swiss scientists who have taken ordinary wood floor planks, coated them with silicon and embedded nanocrystals, and then stepped on them to generate enough electricity… Read the rest “Wooden flooring that generates electricity.”
Scientific American looks at babble and finds it comprehensible, thanks to language researchers who have learned that nonsense sounds imply the same concepts to listeners with different… Read the rest “Made-up sounds convey meaning across cultures.”
Smithsonian Magazine reveal the probable history of a mummy found in the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna who was preserved with a tongue-shaped amulet made of gold foil in their mouth… Read the rest “Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.”
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