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 how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body and Health: Grade Six by … Read the rest “Science Art: A quarantine safeguards health…, 1936.”
NPR reports that archaeologists working in caves on the shores of the Dead Sea have found, for the first time in 60 years, another fragmentary parchment dating back to the time of the Christ,… Read the rest “A new Dead Sea Scroll… and even more ancient things.”
Scientific American reports on new evidence that bacteria may be “effectively immortal” after researchers brought back microbes that settled to the ocean floor tens of … Read the rest “They resuscitated 100 million-year-old bacteria.”
Scientific American puts forward an argument for renaming the neurological, psychological, something-ological condition that we currently call ADHD:
… Read the rest “To take a “D” off ADHD.”The classificatory terms we
NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler.
As they say on their Image Gallery site:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’, NASA, 2021.”The landing location is marked
Science magazine celebrates an unusual media package – pictures, movies, and most of all sounds sent to Earth from the Mars Perseverance rover:
… Read the rest “Mars rover sends “overwhelming” audio home. (And video and pics too.)”But perhaps even more thrilling,
Scientific American reports on some scientific Canadians who have tackled the carbon-offset problem – there’s too much CO2 trapping heat in the atmosphere – in the… Read the rest “New climate change weapon sucks CO2 straight out of the sky.”
It’s an avocado, an aguacate, also known as an alligator pear in English and a “lawyer pear” in Dutch. This is a Taft variety, an ancestor of the Lula … Read the rest “Science Art: Persea: Taft, by Royal Charles Steadman, 1914.”
Science shares a study that found microdoses of psychedelic mushrooms really do work to boost creativity and create feelings of well-being… but so did inert placebo doses:
… Read the rest “Psych study: Microdosing really works. But so do placebos.”Placebo-controlled
Nature reports on a new milestone in the quest for true randomness – a quality that’s vitally useful in things like data security and models of chaotic systems like, say, hurricanes… Read the rest “A quickly random bow tie, and why that’s important.”
Science magazine looks at a mini-brain in a mini-jar – a cluster of stem cells coaxed into forming an “organoid,” a clump of cells that start taking on the functions of… Read the rest “Brain-cell clusters can mimic a newborn’s brain.”
From the Library of Congress, we find a diagram of astrophysics equipment from the 19th century. It’s not a telescope. It’s a device designed to disprove … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of interferometer and four mirrors mounted on stone floating in mercury…, 1887”
Archaeology magazine looks at a cow bone engraved with runic letters around 600 CE in the southern Czech Republic – a discovery that indicates that Slavic people first wrote using… Read the rest “Slavs first wrote with runes.”
SONG: “Small”
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SOURCE: Based on Science News, 4 Feb 2021, “A new chameleon species may be the world’s tiniest reptile”, as used in the post “Just… Read the rest “SONG: Small”
AP News is reporting that America has caught up with Scotland in the clone wars. They cloned Dolly the Sheep, and now we’ve cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using DNA from … Read the rest “America is cloning ferrets.”
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