No song today.
Observing the equinox. Have music (roughly) but no good words… yet. Song and penitential cover coming soon.
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: 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 moreComposing the “beep” of the medical monitor.
It’s an iconic, stress-inducing sound – think about medical dramas or crime thrillers set in hospitals. And now, we bring the beep home, some of […]
Looks like real-life astronomers found Spock’s home planet right where it was supposed to be.
Nature asks the question raised by University of Florida astronomers: how did Roddenberry know there’d be a hot, heavy, but Earth-like planet orbiting 40 Eridani?: […]
Tracking a leatherback turtle through Hurricane Florence
Popular Science shows what it takes to get data sometimes – when the enormous marine reptile you affixed your tracking equipment to carries on migrating […]
Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863
Click to embiggen Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s […]
The world’s oldest drawing was made with a red ocher crayon.
Science News goes deeper into a rock that bears a cross-hatch pattern made 73,000 years ago in a South African cave: The discovery “helps round […]
First shark species confirmed to eat everything – even veggies.
The Guardian unveils the bonnethead as the first confirmed omnivorous shark species: Scientists at the University of California in Irvine, and Florida International University in […]
Science Art: Pipes and playing-drum of a “Leierkasten” hand-drawn organ, by Rama
Click to embiggen This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a […]
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 […]
What 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 […]