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…
Read moreTW, as they say.
New Scientist has some hard numbers on some difficult truths, offering data on just how many women lost their virginity in a way that they considered “not voluntary”… Read the rest “CDC report: One in 16 US women were forced into having sex for the first time”
A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea of organ systems from, really. Trying … Read the rest “Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696”
Space.com has photos and background on B333, an expandable and expansive zero-gravity habitat for the next generation of space explorers. Bottom line is it’s pretty big:
… Read the rest “Billionaire Bigelow’s Big Balloon – inflatable space station is open for visitors.”The space
LA Times plunges into a chemical and artistic riddle – how can we restore fading Day-Glo paintings when the formula for Saturn Yellow remains a trade secret?:
… Read the rest “I don’t know, how *do* you make Saturn Yellow?”[Conservator Kamila]
The Independent puzzles over a biological riddle – a strange microbe that doesn’t need oxygen or sunlight to get by. Instead, it thrives deep underground living off fool’s… Read the rest “What breathes sulfur, eats fool’s gold and could show us where life came from?”
Nature mourns the apparent loss of India’s first lunar lander, which stopped transmitting as it descended to the Moon’s south pole:
… Read the rest “India’s moon lander went silent minutes before landing.”Mission control at the Indian Space Research
Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t.
This is not that Category 5 storm. This was apparently uploaded… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane”
Science reveals the Atlantis-like story of Greater Adria, a continent the size of Greenland that vanished 140 million years ago, not under the sea but below the slowly moving continent … Read the rest “Geologists explore a lost continent hidden under Southern Europe.”
Nature has a fascinating piece of research (with great graphics, so please click through) on how exactly public opinions can be molded by a few strategically placed bots on a social media… Read the rest “How a social network can be gerrymandered – and how that can affect our decision-making (and real-life voting).”
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It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks along the bottom using… Read the rest “Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)”
Science News describes how the MASCOT asteroid lander has found the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu oddly devoid of dust:
… Read the rest “A remarkably tidy asteroid.”The asteroid, thought to have formed from the breakup of a larger body
The Conversation looks at a way that Fatemeh Torabi Asr, a computational linguistics researcher at Simon Fraser University, has devised to use computers to instantaneously identify … Read the rest “An algorithm to sniff out fake news, linguistically.”
Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was Biosphere 2.
I mainly remember Biosphere 2 as the … Read the rest “Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.”
SONG: “Built on Sand”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand,” as used in the post “We’re running out of…… Read the rest “SONG: Built On Sand”
Science News shares results from an English MRI experiment that has mapped, for the first time, how exactly our brain takes a symbol, like a letter, and converts it into the thought of a spoken… Read the rest “We caught a glimpse of a symbol becoming an idea in the brain.”
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