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Magic mirror brings the Buddha’s enlightenment… when the light hits it just right.

19 July 2022 grant 0

CNN reports on an unexpected discovery in the Cincinnati Art Museum’s East Asian collection, where an unremarkable-looking bronze mirror was just revealed to reflect a hidden … Read the rest “Magic mirror brings the Buddha’s enlightenment… when the light hits it just right.”

SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)

24 March 2022 grant 0

SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”.

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SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used … Read the rest “SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)”

On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.

17 March 2022 grant 0

Discover reports on the growing field of “scent researchers” who are attempting to bring back smells that have long since gone away, and to record the smells we’ve got… Read the rest “On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.”

Scientific Illustration of an Ojibwe music board, with colorful human and animal figures, as illustrated by by James Ackerman after a watercolor by Seth Eastman

Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851

6 March 2022 grant 0

This is a chromolithograph by James Ackerman made of a watercolor by Seth Eastman who was copying an Ojibwe music board – a birchwood slab somebody picked up in the Northern Great Lakes… Read the rest “Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851”

Medieval Blue is Remade

17 April 2020 grant 0

Science News opens a new book on an old pigment, reconstructing a botanical purple-blue hue that had puzzled medievalists for ages:

The pigment, called folium, graced the pages of medieval

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a Papuan ancestor-statue

Science Art: Korowaar, page 488 of The Cruise of The Marchesa, 1889.

24 February 2019 grant 0

a Papuan ancestor-statue

This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. Keulemans, C. Whymper and others. by Francis H. … Read the rest “Science Art: Korowaar, page 488 of The Cruise of The Marchesa, 1889.”

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Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2

4 February 2019 grant 0

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A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was when the sun was at a specific point in the sky at the equinoxes… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Roman time keeping, sun path hora by Darekk2”

The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.

31 July 2018 grant 0

Science reveals the strange similarities, found by archaeologist Scott Fitzpatrick of the University of Oregon, between the very modern cryptocurrency markets and the very ancient … Read the rest “The cryptocurrency of ancient Yap.”

The birth of city-states (and government itself) didn’t happen like we thought.

16 October 2017 grant 0

New Scientist reviews research that shows the first governments weren’t born as a consequence of agriculture. Instead, they might have had more to do with hunger, fear, and the threat… Read the rest “The birth of city-states (and government itself) didn’t happen like we thought.”

Re-remembering Robinson Crusoe.

3 October 2016 grant 0

Because, according to National Geographic, we didn’t remember him right the first time. Or at least we attribute a heck of a lot to the real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk that really… Read the rest “Re-remembering Robinson Crusoe.”

Ancient human hanky-panky mapped out.

29 March 2016 grant 0

Science Daily tracks where (and when) the first modern humans made babies with Denisovans and Neanderthals:

Most non-Africans possess at least a little bit Neanderthal DNA. But a new map

… Read the rest “Ancient human hanky-panky mapped out.”

Modern humans and Neanderthals go back further together than we thought.

20 February 2016 grant 0

Science Daily talks about our ancient brothers, the Neanderthals who were us, 100,000 years ago:

Today in Nature the team publishes evidence of interbreeding that occurred an estimated

… Read the rest “Modern humans and Neanderthals go back further together than we thought.”

Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.

1 November 2015 grant 0

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Three idols, from the Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, published between 1892 and 1910.

I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which is usually full of … Read the rest “Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.”

Maybe… just maybe… we’re getting as much sleep as we always did.

16 October 2015 grant 0

It sure doesn’t feel like it, but Scientific American has some research to suggest that all these screens and electric lights really aren’t ruining our primal, natural-born… Read the rest “Maybe… just maybe… we’re getting as much sleep as we always did.”

First contact for health’s sake.

20 July 2015 grant 0

Peruvian officials have, Science Daily reports, made like technologically advanced aliens and had first contact with a very isolated tribe:

Peru’s Ministry of Culture begins

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