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…
Read moreScientific American broadcasts a study (by David Rand and Gordon Pennycook, published in Nature) that looked at why misinformation spreads online, and found that it […]
SONG: “Welcome to the Landing” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on NASA, 5 Mar 2021, Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’”, as used in the Science […]
Click to embiggen This is how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scientific American puts forward an argument for renaming the neurological, psychological, something-ological condition that we currently call ADHD: The classificatory terms we use all refer […]
Click to embiggen NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. As they say on their […]
Science magazine celebrates an unusual media package – pictures, movies, and most of all sounds sent to Earth from the Mars Perseverance rover: But perhaps […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen It’s an avocado, an aguacate, also known as an alligator pear in English and a “lawyer pear” in Dutch. This is a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen From the Library of Congress, we find a diagram of astrophysics equipment from the 19th century. It’s not a telescope. It’s a […]
Archaeology magazine looks at a cow bone engraved with runic letters around 600 CE in the southern Czech Republic – a discovery that indicates that […]
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