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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From Wedding’s Basic Bessemer Process, by W. B. Phillips and E. Prochaska, which you can preview here. I found it on the British Library Photostream.
The Bessemer… Read the rest “Science Art: Water-Cooling of the Converter, 1891”
Science News reports on the discovery of the smallest known dinosaur in a Myanmar gemstone – and it was a tiny predator:
… Read the rest “Burmese amber contains skull of hummingbird-sized dinosaur.”A tiny, toothed bird that lived 99 million years ago appears
Or something like that. Scientific American looks at how Shi Zhengli’s kind of obscure area zoological research – looking at how bats contract viral diseases – suddenly… Read the rest “China’s “Bat Woman” is a virus-hunting hero.”
Scientific American looks at old trees to determine how so-called hunter-gatherers were actually actively “farming” the Brazil nuts and cocoa trees they relied on for food… Read the rest “Yes, indigenous South Americans were actively managing the forest.”
Rather than the usual excerpt of recent research, I thought I’d start collecting some decent sources of info on the ongoing pandemic.
* Vetted and regularly updated numbers, best… Read the rest “COVID-19 Resource List”
A snapshot of SARS virus particles – the coronavirus responsible for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome – taken at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the military … Read the rest “Science Art: Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus particles (orange) found near the periphery of an infected cell (green).”
Scientific American checks out how fire-prevention efforts are actually apparently hurting bat populations:
… Read the rest “Forest fires boost bats.”In California’s Sierra Nevada ecosystem, bats have adapted to occasional
Science News has started a vetted Frequently Asked Questions page about the virus that’s on everyone’s mind now. It’s located here, but the most fun question and answer… Read the rest “Some COVID-19 answers from Science News.”
Science News is following the progress of China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover as they discover all sorts of new things about the layers of the moon’s farside – the part… Read the rest “China’s rover scoots around the dark side of the moon.”
Electronics in 1916, from an article on making headphones for receiving radio transmissions in QST, the amateur wireless magazine of the The American Radio … Read the rest “Science Art: Amplifying Receiver, Sketch 1, April 1916”
Fans of the scaly anteater otherwise known as the pangolin can take heart in Nature‘s latest report, that might not have been the source of coronavirus after all. But then what was?:… Read the rest “Possible pangolin exoneration as coronavirus source.”
Science News reports on the humble jellyfish-relative that lives in the bodies of Pacific salmon and undersea worms, and gets along fine without any mitochondria – the part of a cell… Read the rest “A salmon parasite can survive without oxygen, without mitochondria, and with a lot of mystery.”
SONG: “Young and Stupid”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: The Guardian, 3 February 2020, “Girls beginning puberty almost a year earlier than in 1970s,” as used in the… Read the rest “SONG: “Young and Stupid””
Astronauts gotta learn how to astronaut.
This is from a NASA document from 1960 called Technical Note D-546: Experience with a Three-Axis Side-Located Controller During… Read the rest “Science Art: Block diagram illustrating the simulator setup and primary tracking task, 1960.”
The Guardian looks at the slightly puzzling change in the age girls reach puberty around the world:
… Read the rest “Girls really are growing up quicker – biologically speaking.”For girls, experts say the best marker of the start of puberty is the development of glandular
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