ANIMALS - Dolphin Detected Woman's Cancer?
A news story about a woman who swam with dolphins and was somehow inspired to visit a doctor who identified a cancer tumor, has speculated a dolphin might have helped. A Panama City Beach, Florida woman went on a dolphin cruise and once in the water with about 15 dolphins something strange happened. One male dolphin stayed near her and even bumped her. Then it did a flip in front of her.Image Credit: Henry A-W, Wiki CommonsShe told the dolph ...
ANIMALS - Fish Species Moving North Due To Climate Change
University of British Columbia scientist William Cheung has documented a gradual shifting of some fish species further north than their typical ranges. Some tropical commercial species are being found by fishing boats in waters near New England. Ocean water in the tropics is becoming too warm due to climate change, so they are seeking cooler places.Image Credit: Public DomainIf tropical waters continue to increase in temperature, habitat for ...
ANIMALS - State-of-the-art 19th-century torpedo was discovered by Navy dolphins
In the late 19th century, the Howell torpedo was an incredibly advanced piece of military equipment, a breakthrough device in the United States' quest to achieve naval dominance. But only one surviving Howell torpedo was known to exist-until Navy dolphins nosed up another.The US Navy employs bottlenose dolphins to locate underwater military equipment that can't yet be detected by machines. Using their sonar, the dolphins search for objects-usuall ...
ART - Spirit Foxes and Raunchy Demons in Japanese Netsuke Art
Japanese carved figurines, called netsuke, weren't just cool works of art - they served a practical purpose as wardrobe accessories. A well-dressed Japanese man prior to the twentieth century could display his wealth and taste, with beautiful and intricate carvings of demons and cavorting spirits.Traditional Japanese clothing lacked pockets but a man still needed to carry around his pipe, family seal and other necessities. The answer was to hang ...
ART - The Unexpected Artwork of Physicist Richard Feynman
In addition to being a world-renowned physicist, Richard Feynman was also an amateur artist, one who was fascinated by the power of lines and forms. He felt that his appreciation of art was deeply connected to his love of physics, representing an appreciation of the complexity and beauty of the world.Brain Pickings has a great collection of Feynman's art, and cites this paragraph from his essay "But Is It Art?" which appears in Sure ...
CLIMATE - 97% Of Research Papers Say Global Warming Is Manmade
A recent study of research papers published from 1991 to 2011 that took a view on human-related climate change found 97% of them were agreement that humans are a factor. The study was published in Environmental Research Letters, Volume 8, Number 2.Image Credit: Public DomainA large team of researchers made up the study group, which had affiliations with quite a number of organizations, such as the University of Queensland, Australia, the Sch ...
CLIMATE - Melting Glaciers: Photos
Goodbye, glaciers. These rivers of ice are melting worldwide ...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/melting-glaci
EARTH - Check out this cool (and detailed) geological map of Skyrim
A scientist has set out to create a geological map of Skyrim. It's kind of rough at this point, she admits, but it's still pretty awesome.One of the big time sucks - one of MANY - in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is upgrading your equipment. To do this, you need to acquire the raw materials, such as iron, silver and malachite. Granted, you could easily buy all this stuff from one of the vendors scattered throughout the land, but you could also be a bit ...
EARTH - Green Gold: Cornstarch Makes Mining Less Toxic
A new chemical process based on corn starch may make future gold mines greener. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/green-gold-cornstarch-makes-
EARTH - Saudi Woman Climbs Everest in First
A Saudi woman, Raha Muharraq, on Saturday reached the summit of Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted ...
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/extreme-sports/saudi-wom
EARTH - Swirling Waters Seen From Space
Ka-pow! If phytoplankton could make noise, this is what they might sound like off the coast of France this spring. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/swirling-waters-from-
EARTH - Volcanoes Erupting Around the World
Volcanoes are rumbling in both the Arctic and the tropics of North America, while other eruptions continue on an Italian island and in the frozen tundra of Russia. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/earth/volcanoes-erupt-in-alaska-me
ECONOMICS - How Big Companies Are Feeling Their Way Into The Internet Of Everything
By Kevin Mane ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/techonomy/2013/05/17/how-big-com
ECONOMICS - South Korea May Launch World's Most Ambitious Cap And Trade Market
With roughly 18 months until launch, South Korea appears ready to create the world's most ambitious cap and trade market, with the highest global price on carbon.South Korea historical and forecast emissions image via BNEFThese findings jump from a Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) white paper analyzing how potential market designs could affect the nation's carbon price and market efficiency, and are a reminder that global cap and trade co .. ...
EDUCATION - An Interactive Map of Regional American Accents, With Audio
This is the culmination of Rick Aschmann's years-long "hobby" of collecting dialects. It's a comprehensive and detailed map of the dialects (and sub-dialects!) of English-speakers in Canada and the United States. While the work of many years, the map was updated on April 17, 2003, and surged in popularity shortly thereafter. This map is cropped due to size, but the full sized one is belowAschmann's site is a veritable font of ...
EDUCATION - DNews: Is IQ a Good Measure of Intelligence?
Much is made of a person's IQ score. But is there really anything to that number? Laci looks at what a high IQ really means, and why some say the test shoul ...
http://news.discovery.com/videos/is-iq-a-good-measure-of-int
ENERGY - Billionaire Returns To The Iraqi Oil Game With New IPO
After five years, Jean Claude Gandur is back in the game. The Swiss billionaire made the bulk of his $2.1 billion fortune (as of Forbes' last count) selling publicly traded Addax Petroleum to Sinopec in 2008 for $7.2 billion. And this week he finally returned to the public markets, bringing in $250 million through the initial public offering of 17% of the company's shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Debuting at C$15, shares in OXC curr ...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/05/17/bil
ENERGY - Strategies to achieve net-zero energy homes
Chances are you know how many miles your car logs for each gallon or tankful of gas, but you probably have only a foggy idea of how much energy your house consumes, even though home energy expenditures often account for a larger share of the household budget ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130515165053.ht
HOMES - Fisherman's home turned into ultra-modern 753 sq. ft. transformer apartment (Video)
This small-but-dynamic, renovated apartment in Barcelona takes its design cues from boat design and hides some delightful surprises ...
MUSIC - Don't Ask An Economist For Stock-Picking Advice
OVER the last few weeks, as the stock market has reached new highs, my thoughts have turned to my 85-year-old mother. "O.K. Mr. Smarty-Pants," she often asks me, "what stock should I buy now?" She first asked me this question when I was an undergraduate at Princeton, majoring in economics. She asked again when I was a graduate student at M.I.T., earning a Ph.D. in economics. And she has asked it regularly during the last three decades when I have ...
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/business/for-stock-pick
http://www-nc.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/business/for-stock-pick
MUSIC - Learn the Periodic Table of Elements with this handy song
Whether you need to brush up on your chemistry, or just love it when someone sets the Periodic Table to music, AsapSCIENCE's The NEW Periodic Table Song is for you.This rundown of the elements in numerical order is set to Jacques Offenbach's Infernal Galop, but was otherwise written, produced, and performed by Mitchell Moffit. Here are the lyrics in case you missed anything:There's Hydrogen and Helium Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everyw ...
http://io9.com/learn-the-periodic-table-of-elements-with-thi
PEOPLE - 2013's Top 20 Billionaires
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PEOPLE - 30 under 30: Media
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45ehekd/erica-anderson-28
PEOPLE - The science that discredited the "sons" of Marie Antoinette
For most modern people, the story of Marie Antoinette ends with her death. For some, though, it didn't end until 1998, when one of the most credible pretenders to the throne of France was, posthumously, discredited. See how genetics solved a 200-year-old mystery.Marie Antoinette's story has become a sort of legend. Whether it's imagined as the martyrdom of a powerless pawn or the comeuppance of a callous plutocrat, it has both the perfect stag ...
PEOPLE - Victorian Era Brits Were Smarter Than Us
The average intelligence level of Victorian-era individuals was higher than that of people today, according to a new study. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/victorian-era-brit
PLANTS - Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker
With the hand of nature trained on a beaker of chemical fluid, the most delicate flower structures have been formed in a laboratory -- and not at the scale of inches, but microns. These minuscule sculptures, curved and delicate, don't resemble the cubic or jagged forms normally associated with crystals, though that's what they are. Rather, fields of carnations and marigolds seem to bloom from the surface of a submerged glass slide, assembling the ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516142218.ht
SCIENCE - 8 Of The Year's Most Oddly Gorgeous Science Images
Maze Dweller A goby fish peeks out of the coral it lives in. Goby fish are good housekeepers--they may remove algae from the coral that would otherwise smother it, undergraduate Chhaya Werner explained. Werner took this photo while doing field work in Panama. Chhaya Werner '14, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology A water slide for worms, the glorious C. instagram, and more Click here to enter the gallery Is this the era of C. instagra ...
SCIENCE - Artificial Skin That's Way More Sensitive to Touch Than The Real Thing
Scientists have created a paper-thin flexible "skin" that can detect pressure that's a few hundred times lighter than a gentle touch. This new material could eventually make its way into artificial or robotic limbs - but for now researchers have found that it is absolutely amazing at reading a pulse. We recently told you about new artificial skin that's as sensitive to touch as our fingertips. That sensor was made out of piezoelectr ...
SCIENCE - LHC Creates Tiny Drops of Big Bang 'Blood Spatter'
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recreated the world's tiniest droplets of a primordial state of matter that last existed moments after the Big Bang, some 13.82 billion years ago. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/lhc-creates-worlds-smallest-
SCIENCE - Learn the Periodic Table of Elements with this handy song
Whether you need to brush up on your chemistry, or just love it when someone sets the Periodic Table to music, AsapSCIENCE's The NEW Periodic Table Song is for you.This rundown of the elements in numerical order is set to Jacques Offenbach's Infernal Galop, but was otherwise written, produced, and performed by Mitchell Moffit. Here are the lyrics in case you missed anything:There's Hydrogen and Helium Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everyw ...
http://io9.com/learn-the-periodic-table-of-elements-with-thi
SCIENCE - Long-Predicted Fractal Energy Pattern Observed For First Time By Physicists
Hofstadter's butterfly in color. The horizontal axis is the energy (or chemical potential) and the vertical axis is the magnetic flux through the unit cell. The warm and cold colors represent positive and negative values of Hall conductance, respectively (image credit: Mytomi)Forty years ago, a mysterious and beautiful "butterfly-shaped" magnetic energy pattern was theorized by famed physicist and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Douglas Hofsta ...
SCIENCE - Physicists let magnetic dipoles interact on the nanoscale for the first time
Physicists have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice -- by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles of the magnetic islands did not arrange themselves in a zigzag pattern, but in chains ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130515151548.ht
SCIENCE - The Unexpected Artwork of Physicist Richard Feynman
In addition to being a world-renowned physicist, Richard Feynman was also an amateur artist, one who was fascinated by the power of lines and forms. He felt that his appreciation of art was deeply connected to his love of physics, representing an appreciation of the complexity and beauty of the world.Brain Pickings has a great collection of Feynman's art, and cites this paragraph from his essay "But Is It Art?" which appears in Sure ...
SCIENCE - Whimsical, animal-filled illustrations of mathematical concepts
Kasia Jackowska's Drawing Mathematics series takes an unusually adorable approach to illustrating mathematical concepts. The Pythagorean Theorem and Sierpinski triangles are conveyed through drawings of elephants, snakes, and deer.Jackowska created this series for a brochure published by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Warsaw. You can see the rest at her website.Drawing Mathematics [Kasia Jackowska via Radiolab ...
SCIENCE - World's smallest liquid droplets ever made in the lab, experiment suggests
Physicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland. Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities approac ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130516200641.ht
SOLAR - Fluorescent Solar Cells The Future?
This article was originally published on the Yale News website.Scientists at Yale have improved the ability of a promising type of solar cell to absorb light and convert it into electrical power by adding a fluorescent organic dye to the cell layer. (Image by Teng-Hooi Goh and Jing-Shun Huang)For some solar cells, the future may be fluorescent.Scientists at Yale have improved the ability of a promising type of solar cell to absorb light and .. ...
SPACE - Does Alien Life Thrive in Venus' Mysterious Clouds?
Venus might not be somewhere you'd expect to find life, but there's a chance that its sulfrous clouds could be hiding something. Continue reading ↠...
http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/are-ve
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