We stick to false beliefs because reactions matter more than evidence.
Science Daily reports (factually) on a UC Berkeley study that reveals how the feedback we get makes us so certain about our wrong beliefs: “If […]
Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreScience 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 moreWhat do captive flamingos do at night?
Science Daily asks a strange question and the University of Exeter gets a strange answer. At night, when the zookeeper is asleep, what do flamingos […]
Posting selfies damages your self-image.
Science Direct has a social media study from psychologists at Toronto’s York University and Adelaide’s Flinders University, who’ve found that women feel worse about themselves […]
Science Art: Detail from the bookplate of the English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist Charles Davies Sherborn, 1890
Click to embiggen This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley […]
Just discovered: Tiny tunnels that connect your brain to your skull.
Science News says the little tubes help immune cells travel from bone marrow to injured parts of the brain membrane: In mice, inflammatory immune cells […]
AI successfully predicts earthquake aftershocks.
Nature says the earthquake prophet is IN. Or in the machine at least. For the first time, a machine-learning system beat human experts at figuring […]
Meat by law, not by lab.
Not the usual science-mag fare, but yesterday USA Today had a story that’s sort of about business and sort of about unintended consequences of cutting-edge […]
Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.
Click to embiggen From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description: This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray […]
SONG: Taste the Wind
SONG: “Taste the Wind”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 13 Aug 2018, “Spacecraft sets off to make humanity’s closest approach to the Sun”, as used in […]
Chilling out: Starting to study the physiology of ASMR
Researchers from the UK’s University of Sheffield and Manchester Metropolitan University have taken a closer look at what’s really going on with all those hugely […]
SONG: Circuits in the Sand (penitential cover)
SONG: “Circuits in the Sand” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for last month’s […]
Was Homo erectus too lazy to survive? Really?
Smithsonian seems to be blaming the (ahem) efficiency of “least-effort strategies” on the fall of Homo erectus, modern humans’ recent ancestor: In a statement, lead […]
Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931
Click to embiggen Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage […]
Tasting the solar wind.
Nature reports on the Parker Solar Probe, a ship with a mission to closer than we’ve ever been to the Sun, even dipping into the […]
Cut out cutting out the salt
Yes, it’s still controversial, but it looks like (according to The Guardian‘s reporting) that successfully lowering your salt intake might – oops – increase your […]