Short Musical Quiz: Chimp Vs. Sumerian Zither
A Midi recording of the oldest known musical composition (from 1400 BC), which originally would have been played on some kind of dorky harp instrument:The first known drum solo by…
A Midi recording of the oldest known musical composition (from 1400 BC), which originally would have been played on some kind of dorky harp instrument:The first known drum solo by…
…’cuz it really does sound like the ‘scream of a thousand corpses’. I can see these things being a great Halloween novelty, or maybe a stocking stuffer around Xmas.
I’m nine floors up in outer Scarborough (or, as we call it down here, The Bro), facing West, and every once in awhile I find animal poop on the balcony…
From the abstract: Abstract. Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three…
Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview is a fascinating document. I’ve just excerpted bits below and added a few comments. Of course the Americans did this kind “research”,…
From The Archaeology News: Most scientists agree that humans began arriving in the Americas between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago, and the Clovis people of North and Central America are…
The Piraha are a small tribe living along the Amazon with an extremely peculiar…simple, primitive…language: Among Pirahã’s many peculiarities is an almost complete lack of numeracy, an extremely rare linguistic…
Oreos, however, are not:. The study ref-ed is entirely without scientific value. It’s what you get when you allow college students access to cookies and drugs.
Not exactly, but… Click on pic for full effect. I used to own a couple of Greens, which are not quite as spectacular. They would fight, but a bit less…
Apr. 25, 2013 — The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the…
Janet Stephens, the “hair dressing archaeologist”, has been much in the news of late for having successfully recreated the hair-style worn by ancient Rome’s Vestal Virgin priestesses. Here’s how she…
The bottom of Lake Whillans, a two meter deep body of water underneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, sandwiched between ice and rock. And, yes, it harbors life.
With all the to-do about these folks lately, I thought the following might be apropos: Dec. 6, 2012 — Despite their modern-day diversity of language, lifestyle, and religion, Europe’s widespread…
A quick update to this post from April 2012, which is about a paper withdrawn from the journal Applied Mathematics Letters because it had “no mathematical content”. Now we have…
Last week Curiosity was able to use its SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) device to confirm the discovery. A robotic arm with a complex system of Spectral Analysis devices was…
This is terribly disappointing:The broad spectrum sounds recorded in the summer of 1997 are consistent with icequakes generated by large icebergs as they crack and fracture. NOAA hydrophones deployed in…
* The neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures. In fact, subcortical neural networks aroused during affective states in humans are also critically important…
Elsevier is a very large publisher of scientific and medical journals. It has been boycotted recently number of high-profile scientists due to its high subscription prices for individual journals, bundling…