This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreThis is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreThese are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreRed pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreThis is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
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An illustration from a book the title of which begins Bawkunst Oder Architectur aller fürnemsten/ Nothwendigsten/ angehœrigen Mathematischen vnd Mechanischen Kuensten/ eygentlicher Bericht/ vnd verstændtliche […]
New Scientist opens a new, fertile field of biological research with the discovery at Japan’s University of Yamanashi that it’s possible to freeze-dry viable sperm […]
The Guardian, a British paper, opens itself to the possibility of a near-Arctic future England after looking at some cold, hard facts. The Gulf Stream, […]
Scientific American marvels at caffeinated bumblebees, and the researchers who give busy bees caffeine and sugar to make them more focused and efficient: [University of […]
From an impressive page of bird diagrams in the Rand, McNally & Co.’s Encyclopedia and Gazetteer. “Birds are in some ways the highest of vertebrate […]
Science Daily shows how UC-Davis researchers are teaching mice how to consciously control the dopamine in their brains, turning on the reward centers of their […]
The only answer is “We don’t really know,” but as Reuters explains, that isn’t really good news however you look at it: The lakes, located […]
This is a photo taken by the Mars helicopter Ingenuity‘s navigational camera. Although it doesn’t say so in the NASA image gallery where I found […]
SONG: “Listening”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, 13 July 21, “The Neuroscience of Taking Turns in a Conversation,” as used in the post “The neurology […]
New Scientist reports on research at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil, where Gabriela Niemeyer Reissig and colleagues have found that tomatoes being eaten […]
Scientific American looks at a weird new power source, using probably the most common building material in the modern world as a kind of rechargeable […]
This is an advertisement in the back of the May/June 1965 issue of Information Display, the journal of the Society for Information Display. It’s a […]
Scientific American turns to chatty songbirds to figure out how it is that our brains process cues telling us when to talk and when to […]
PsyPost, reporting on a study in Psychological Reports, introduces us to the OBPS, a way to scientifically quantify the amount of useless, stupid nonsense we’re […]
Popular Science reports on the U.S. Marine Corps’ experimental flying explosive robots: What sets the Drone 40 apart from a host of other small drone […]
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