SONG: “Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: There is no scientific source. This is a penitential cover of this Colleen Green song… Read the rest “SONG: Deeper Than Love (a penitential Colleen Green cover)”
SONG: “Science (a penitential cover)”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source data; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the April song. It was … Read the rest “SONG: Science (a penitential cover)”
Defector, a media outlet I’m rooting for, basically came to be when a bunch of Deadspin staffers refused to follow the corporate edict, “Stick to sports.” Well, they’re… Read the rest “Nobel CRISPR research as a sporting competition – or a war.”
Science magazines has some striking visualizations of the atomic bombing’s long-lasting repercussions in their latest issue – and have had their graphics managing editor,… Read the rest “We’re still looking at the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Scientific American has some suggestions for your self-isolation. There are a few ways you can help researchers out without ever leaving home:
… Read the rest “Bored with hanging out at home? Count some penguins (or spot some galaxies) for science.”“I think where we can tap into people’s enthusiasm
BBC Future muses over the ways in which language can limit scientific research – when you don’t have the words for a concept:
… Read the rest “How do you say “dinosaur” in Zulu?”For Zulu-speaking South African schoolchildren
Reuters reports on scientists – 400 of them – who have shed the stereotypical dispassionate patience that goes with, you know, gathering data over long periods of time and … Read the rest “Scientists endorse civil disobedience to get somebody to actually do something about climate change.”
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This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley as anything on … Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from the bookplate of the English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist Charles Davies Sherborn, 1890”
I was going to post something else here, but then I saw this on nemfrog this morning and had to share.
It’s the Elephant-Headed Boy (Puer Capite Elephantino) and the Horned Infant (Infans… Read the rest “Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.”
Nature reports on Jordan’s new push to make itself into the future scientific powerhouse of the Middle East:
… Read the rest “Jordan: Techno-utopia.”Jordan’s leaders see science, engineering and technology as an engine
This isn’t really research, but does speak to what this site has been doing (or pointing at) for the past nine years… so I wanted you, gentle reader, to spend a moment with this.… Read the rest ““Complexity and nuance required”: a conservative ecologist.”
Science News looks at how much Americans *think* the government is paying to fund research. If scientists got what people thought they should get, the total would be a pay increase, not a … Read the rest “The government is already paying less for science than you think (probably).”
This is the science vessel Albatross, a steamship custom-built for the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, what’s now the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. “The… Read the rest “Science Art: The Albatross Dredging, 1883.”
That’s in the “radio silence” sense, not in the sense of “shuttering their windows” or “turning bleak.” Not yet, anyway. Buzzfeed reported… Read the rest “Government research bodies are going dark.”
SONG: “By Numbers.”
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017, as used in the post “Scientists start identifying… Read the rest “SONG: By Numbers”
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