June 2005
La Nature, 1889
images of electric discharges by E-L Trouvelot, from the pages of La Nature
The Pharmaceutical Journal: Freud, Sherlock Holmes and Coca Cola — the cocaine connection
"I gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career."
May 2005
'First platypus' still intact
what happened to that original specimen that so famously bamboozled the experts?
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Bioprospecting Historical Texts
A vast, untapped source of biomedical information may be sitting on the shelves of old libraries.
April 2005
Science, Technology, and Poetry: Some Thoughts on Jackson Mac Low
Mordecai MacLow on his father's use of experimental, aleatoric and deterministic methods in his work
The Independent: Deciphering the Oxyrhynchus Papyri
by 1 otherIn the past 4 days alone, classicists have discovered writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod, and others, which had been lost for millennia
The Genographic Project - Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA
"a landmark study of the human journey"
The Waitt Family Foundation--National Geographic's Genographic Project
"an ambitious global project whose goals are twofold: to capture a snapshot of human history locked within our DNA before it disappears forever, and to highlight the untold stories and uncertain future of indigenous peoples worldwide."
Acoustic Radar.
Acoustic location - detecting aircraft by picking up engine noise. Some bizarre images...
March 2005
History of the Study of Locomotion
theorists of movement
Howard Lovy's NanoBot
Independent nanotechnology information and commentary
The weird world of precious metal nanotechnology
What is the potential impact of nanotechnology on the jewelry industry?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Female chromosome has X factor
Females are genetically more varied than males, an analysis of the X chromosome has revealed
Lucid Dreaming Frequently Asked Questions Answered by The Lucidity Institute
a brief introduction to lucid dreaming--what it is, how to do it, and what can be done with it.
New Scientist Breaking News - Brain reconstruction hints at 'hobbit' intelligence
Analysis of the diminutive cranium of Homo floresiensis - a tiny hobbit-like human that lived in Indonesia just 13,000 years ago - confirms it as a unique species and reveals remarkably advanced features for such a small brain.
New Scientist Breaking News - Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
researchers to look for "optimal pulse parameters to evoke peak nociceptor activation" - in other words, cause the maximum pain possible.
February 2005
Voices of the Frasassi Caves: 'geophonic' music
http://www.elica.com/comunicazione/press.php?id=11&pageID=4 Elica - cooker hoods
Science in the 19th Century Periodical
searchable index to the science content of 16 19th C. periodicals
Linda Hall Library History of Science Collection
digitised full texts of some rare history of science books
April 2004
NDB Musical Atlas
The Nucleic Acid Database has been developing different musical algorithms to provide a unique look into the structure of DNA.
