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May
7
One half of the humans are female, so one half of the scientists should be female.
- Bill Nye at the Storytelling of Science at ASU
Yes, exactly. We need more girls going into science! Now there aren’t many Nobel Prizes being given to women, mostly because society pushed them away from science decades ago. But now that can all be changed, if more girls go into science.
Apr
1
Bringing a Virtual Brain to Life
“For months, Henry Markram and his team had been feeding data into a supercomputer, four vending-machine-size black boxes whirring quietly in the basement of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The boxes housed thousands of microchips, each programmed to act like a brain cell. Cables carried signals from microchip to microchip, just as cells do in a real brain.” READ MORE
Mar
20
Euler’s Equation
This simple formula encapsulates something pure about the nature of spheres: ”It says that if you cut the surface of a sphere up into faces, edges and vertices, and let F be the number of faces, E the number of edges and V the number of vertices, you will always get V – E + F = 2,” said Colin Adams, a mathematician at Williams College in Massachusetts.”A very cool fact! The combinatorics of the vertices, edges and faces is capturing something very fundamental about the shape of a sphere,” Adams said. via The 11 Most Beautiful Mathematical Equations
Mar
16
“High-resolution high-contrast X-ray radiography of plant seeds combined with images taken by microscopy.” via
Feb
17
Dreams of Space
A design and space science grand slam, behold these 1965 Looking Into Science textbook supplements. Originating in California, they are a memory of a time perhaps more creative and ambitious, in science and in art.
But as any reader of this or the many other blogs who feature science art knows, the talent evident in today’s works signal that there’s a wave of change coming. Sometimes, the best way to inspire the mind is to inspire the soul, for they never truly act alone.
If you love these, then immerse yourself in Dreams of Space, a blog dedicated solely to nonfiction children’s space flight books from 1945-1975. Especially be sure to check out this Czech pop-up book.
Feb
15
Liquid Rope Coiling
The phenomenon that causes this straight stream of viscous honey to “coil” as it comes into contact with the surface of a liquid. via
Feb
2
I got inspiration from Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Used this video.
Jan
11
Imagine a Living Mars
Mars was likely not always the desolate, red-rocked planet that we see today. The Curiosity rover has found what appear to be water-smoothed pebbles, shaped by ancient rivers of flowing water. Curiosity and previous missions have also seen footprints of alluvial fans and river deltas, sure signs of a previously wet world.
Software engineer Kevin Gill has taken those observations to the next level with these simulations of a “living” Mars, covered with seas and lakes and teeming with vegetation and clouds. He used a survey of Martian terrain and elevation, plugged in a sea level to form oceans, and then painted the clouds and terrain as it might look or have looked.
It’s definitely more an exercise in imagination than in reality, as there’s no indication of past forests or marshy plains on the red planet, but it’s an informed imagination, a realization of a planet’s possible rich past or terraformed future.
Check out Kevin Gill on Flickr.
(via io9)
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