A Simulation of the Milky Way
At Caltech, they’ve published a video simulation of the Milky Way: Animation of our Milky Way galaxy based on a detailed supercomputer simulation. The movie zooms in and out of the galaxy, showing what...
View ArticleCollecting the World: Inside the Smithsonian
Collecting the World: Inside the Smithsonian from Great Big Story on Vimeo. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has over 144 million different objects in its collections. A sample of...
View ArticleThe Search for a Ninth Planet
See, If Planet Nine Is Out There, It Tilts Our Solar System @ New York Times.
View ArticleThe Plan to Drain the Mediterranean: Atlantropa
For more about the idea, see the Atlantropa entry @ Wikipedia.
View ArticleFor Mr. Trump, It’s STEM, Schwem, Whatever…
Embed from Getty Images In response to a question about whether state-sponsored hacking against an American political party should go unpunished, Donald Trump grew expansive, giving his typically...
View ArticleThat Time a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper
Eric Grundhauser writes In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper: Jack H. Hetherington was a professor of physics at Michigan State University in 1975, when he finished what would become an...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: What Cats Think
Felicity Muth writes What We Understand about Cats and What They Understand about Us: One way in which we frequently attempt to interact with the animals that live with us is by pointing at things. It...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: It’s not the cat…
Derek Beres writes Are cats jerks? Or are YOU the jerk?: To claim that cats aren’t social is simply a way to claim your ignorance about this particular animal. Which is the topic of a new study,...
View ArticleThe Genetic Secrets of Celebrity Cat Lil Bub
View this post on Instagram BUB sees stuff that we don’t. #lilbub #scienceandmagic #goodjobbub A post shared by Lil BUB (@iamlilbub) on Feb 21, 2019 at 1:53pm PST Karin Bruillard reports Scientists...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: UW-Madison Students Design New Back Legs for Injured Cat
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View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Catcams for Science
Karin Bruillard reports Catcam videos reveal cats don’t sleep all day. (Just some of it.): What does a cat do when nobody’s looking? One way to find out is to set up a pet cam to spy on kitty at home....
View ArticleNutty Stories Don’t Seem Nutty to the Unprepared
Hobbes famously observed that reason is a spy for the passions (“the Thoughts, are to the Desires, as Scouts, and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired”). Whatever else one may...
View ArticleApollo 11: NASA and Civilians Remember the Moon Landing
“It was a feeling that went throughout the world, almost like an electric bolt,” one woman remembers of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The lunar landing, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 20,...
View ArticleJunk Reasoning Isn’t Simply a Problem at the Top
Helena Bottemiller Evich reports ‘It feels like something out of a bad sci-fi movie’ (‘A top climate scientist quit USDA, following others who say Trump has politicized science’): One of the nation’s...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Scientific Confirmation that Cats Become Attached to People
Caitlin O’Kane reports Cats actually do get attached to their owners, study says: “Dog people” and “cat people” have long debated which pet is better. A new study is putting one preconceived notion...
View ArticleFriday Catblogging: Cats’ Facial Expressions
Karin Brulliard reports on a study of cats’ facial expressions in Cats do have facial expressions, but you probably can’t read them: Cats have a reputation for being “inscrutable,” the researchers say,...
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