German Garbage Men Turn Dumpsters Into Giant Pinhole Cameras
Because why not? The photos they produce are also fascinating & gorgeous.
Japanese biologists have turned a crab’s shell transparent in groundbreaking research that may hold the future of flat panel displays, solar cells and bendy screens.
Patterns Seen in Spider Silk and Melodies Connected
Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a melody, proving that the structure of each relates to its function in an equivalent way.
Project NOAH
Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
Ancient Water Discovered in Depths of Iron Range Mine
This is really exciting news! I love that an old mine in the middle of the Range has become such an important place for science.
See also, this.
But of course! On Tuesday Colin and I took a tour of the Maplewood Mall parking lot, where a massive project is underway to improve water quality and impact public education.
More about what we learned on the We Work Here blog.
The Kid Should See This
Stumbled across this tumblr about science / nature / art / technology / other good stuff for kids (and non-kids) and I love it.
I’m now giving myself permission to unfollow all of the vapid, sarcastic, irritating tumblrs in my feed in preparation for a return to the tumblr universe.
Scientific American’s slideshow of Landscapes of Industrial Extraction is stunning. This one depicts a byproduct of mining the fertilizer Phosphorous - a very limited, extremely important resource that is also one of the causes of hypoxia in lakes, rivers, oceans…
To get at phosphate reserves, companies first clear-cut a swath of land, then excavate. The phosphate is then washed with water, and the residue is pumped to containment ponds such as those pictured here in Bartow, Fla., where the liquids are separated from the solids for disposal.
One pair of anthropologists, for example, actually crunched the numbers, concluding that the average human adult provides 66 pounds of edible food, including fat, connective tissue, muscle, organs, blood, and skin. Protein-rich blood clots and marrow are said (by the rare connoisseur) to be special treats.
