SONG: Campfires
SONG: “Campfires”
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SOURCE: Based on Science Daily, 16 July 2020, “Solar Orbiter’s first images reveal ‘campfires’ on the Sun”… Read the rest “SONG: Campfires”
Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.
This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreScience Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton
This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreScience Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876
This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
Read moreScience Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.
This 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
SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
Read moreScience Art: Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read more Ceres shines brightest where there’s salt water under the surface.
Science Daily looks to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where the dwarf planet Ceres spins – and may serve as a vast reservoir for space travelers. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft… Read the rest “Ceres shines brightest where there’s salt water under the surface.”
Spinning yarn from human skin
PhysOrg reminds me here of a piece of jewelry my mother won at an auction, which she then gave to me to give to the lady of my affections. It was a pair of Victorian earrings made from human hair.… Read the rest “Spinning yarn from human skin”
Google, Facebook should be scared. Targeted ads shown to be less profitable than the old way.
Wired has a story that seems slightly obscure at first, but really strikes at the cornerstone of today’s internet. The main Dutch public broadcaster, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep,… Read the rest “Google, Facebook should be scared. Targeted ads shown to be less profitable than the old way.”
Science Art: The many faces of the Sun from Solar Orbiter’s EUI and PHI instruments, 2020
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It’s my mother’s birthday today. Here, nine glorious suns for a Leo.
They were photographed by the European Space Agency’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager… Read the rest “Science Art: The many faces of the Sun from Solar Orbiter’s EUI and PHI instruments, 2020”
We’re going to save the mussels of Appalachia. Yes, we are.
Science News has something (perhaps small, perhaps strange) to be optimistic about. The endangered river mussels of America’s eastern mountains might go back to cleaning their… Read the rest “We’re going to save the mussels of Appalachia. Yes, we are.”
We’re still looking at the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Science magazines has some striking visualizations of the atomic bombing’s long-lasting repercussions in their latest issue – and have had their graphics managing editor,… Read the rest “We’re still looking at the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
We’ve got a new way to predict solar flares.
Science Daily shares research from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, that gives us a new handle on predicting when the worst solar flares will come, giving us enough extra… Read the rest “We’ve got a new way to predict solar flares.”
Sperm do lopsided barrel-rolls. They don’t have propeller tails.
Science News dashes the popular image of sperm as swimming furiously by spinning their tails like boat propellers. Instead, the little guys only move their tails in one direction, and keep… Read the rest “Sperm do lopsided barrel-rolls. They don’t have propeller tails.”
Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.
The moon is a body in space that reflects the light of our sun back at us. Which might sound a little weird to say, but this picture does make it all a little easier to grasp.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Phases of the Moon, 1844.”
Neanderthals were more sensitive to pain.
Nature produces one more clue that if any prehistoric “cave men” were the tough, insensitive brutes, it was our ancestors. Neanderthals, a new gene study has determined, … Read the rest “Neanderthals were more sensitive to pain.”
Dancing is better than repetitive exercise for keeping elderly brains fit.
PLOS ONE has an interesting look at brain plasticity – that is, your ability to learn new things, change the way you do things, and remember where the heck you left your keys – … Read the rest “Dancing is better than repetitive exercise for keeping elderly brains fit.”
Scientists have woken up 100-million-year-old microbes.
BBC is not intimidating us all with news that researchers with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have treated a colony of dormant microbes from the bottom of the South… Read the rest “Scientists have woken up 100-million-year-old microbes.”
A brittle star’s whole body is an eye.
Scientific American looks at how these starfish relatives don’t need eyes to see:
… Read the rest “A brittle star’s whole body is an eye.”And yet now there appears to be something far stranger about the biology of at least one species:
Hygiene theater: All the hand sanitizer in the world is kinda beside the point.
The Atlantic looks at the problem with the way public responses to the pandemic have evolved into rituals that look “disinfecting” but really aren’t nearly as effective… Read the rest “Hygiene theater: All the hand sanitizer in the world is kinda beside the point.”