Seattle schools prove later waking makes students more productive.
NPR reports on a year-long, city-wide study that proved one of those obvious things that for some reason we never act on: Teenagers do a […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreWe now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.
Science Alert lets us know that oceanographers have determined that the event that killed 70 percent of all land species and 96 percent of all […]
Color-changing, warm-blooded ichthyosaurs.
Earth Archives talks about a recent fossil discovery that changes the way we picture marine life in the age of dinosaurs: An incredible new specimen […]
Science Art: Storage and Launching of A.4. Rocket Projectile, 1940s.
Click to embiggen This is how Allied intelligence pictured German V2 rockets being used during World War II. A decade and a half later, this […]
She might’ve been Plague Victim Zero.
Science News unearths the 5,000-year-old remains of a Scandinavian woman who seems to have been the oldest known victim of the Black Death: DNA extracted […]
Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.
Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier: Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project […]
There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.
In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of […]
It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….
Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions […]
Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.
Click to embiggen From the Wikimedia Commons description: (a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing […]
Is polarization inevitable? Can we *not* agree to disagree?
The American Council on Science and Health thinks disagreements over facts – even ones based on scientific evidence – may well naturally lead to the […]
We really did walk with unicorns.
PhysOrg explains that they were really Elasmotheriums – 3.5-ton primordial rhinos known as “Siberian unicorns” – but they really did survive into the era of […]
Science Art: Atom Nucleon
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things […]
SONG: Quantum Biology
SONG: “Quantum Biology”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, as used in the post […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Moon River (Henry Mancini) by Carolina Eyck and Bertram Burkert
I don’t think Lula Mae is ever coming home. (And if you don’t get the reference, go now and watch the movie!)
Thanksgiving Theremin: Once Upon a Time in the West (Ennio Morricone), by Katica Illényi & Győr Philharmonic Orchestra
They just don’t cowboy like they used to.