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Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.

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2025/06/23

That’s a closeup of the Surveyor-1 satellite printed above an image of the Gemini orbital capsule, with the words “WE GAVE” (image of Surveyor-1) “a mirror and”… Read the rest “Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966.”The post Science Art: Detail from Tinsley Laboratories ad, 1966. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.

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2025/06/09

This is Venus, moving in front of the Sun. Technically, I suppose it’s a lot of Venuses, or a chain of a lot of pictures of Venus. It was made by NASA/SDO, AIA, or NASA’s Solar Dynamics… Read the rest “Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012.” The post Science Art: Transit of Venus in 2012. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: Hyperfocus

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2025/05/24

SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.)ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert… Read the rest “SONG: Hyperfocus” The post SONG: Hyperfocus first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.

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2025/05/21

Science Alert carries news of a Korean research project that used AI to study images of the fundus, an area of the back of the eye, to successfully pinpoint patients with attention-deficit… Read the rest “ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.” The post ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Painkiller outsmarts opioids.

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2025/05/20

Science Daily reports on Duke researchers who have created a new class of painkiller that experiments show is as effective as opioids at eliminating pain from injuries and surgeries, but… Read the rest “Painkiller outsmarts opioids.” The post Painkiller outsmarts opioids. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Hoplocampa minuta, Plommonstekel Ugglan,...

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2025/05/19

“A kind of sawfly living on plum trees,” according to the Wikimedia Commons gallery of images from Nordisk familjebok. They’re considered a pest — the young … Read the rest “Science Art: Hoplocampa minuta, Plommonstekel Ugglan, 1920.” The post Science Art: Hoplocampa minuta, Plommonstekel Ugglan, 1920. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Our butts used to be sperm dispensers.

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2025/04/25

Science Alert reports on an evolutionary study that has found our butts (from which everybody, as the children’s book tells us, poops) were originally a little bit more risque. The… Read the rest “Our butts used to be sperm dispensers.”The post Our butts used to be sperm dispensers. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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SONG: Titanium Heart

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2025/04/24

SONG: “Titanium Heart”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days — a world first,” Nature, 13 March… Read the rest “SONG: Titanium Heart” The post SONG: Titanium Heart first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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A new color, named “olo.”

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2025/04/24

BBC reports on an odd optical experiment that resulted in human eyes seeing an entirely new color, a kind of super-saturated aqua they’ve dubbed “olo”: By stimulating … Read the rest “A new color, named “olo.”” The post A new color, named “olo.” first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Woltmann’s Tachometer, 1882

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2025/04/21

Oh, hydrology. This is a device to measure the speed of water flow, as described in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics,… Read the rest “Science Art: Woltmann’s Tachometer, 1882” The post Science Art: Woltmann’s Tachometer, 1882 first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Nearby galaxies are shredding each other.

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2025/04/15

BBC Science Focus looks up at the heavens and sees two nearby galaxies — the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) — that, instead of peacefully spinning… Read the rest “Nearby galaxies are shredding each other.” The post Nearby galaxies are shredding each other. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Too much space junk.

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2025/04/14

The European Space Agency has an unfortunate report about future satellites. They’re much closer to running out of room because, as Science Alert puts it, there’s just too… Read the rest “Too much space junk.” The post Too much space junk. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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A mysterious trilobite cousin deciphered.

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2025/04/12

For a long while, paleontologists have been trying to figure out what was up with Helmetia expansa, a prehistoric creature from before the dinosaurs that seemed like a crustacean but not.… Read the rest “A mysterious trilobite cousin deciphered.”The post A mysterious trilobite cousin deciphered. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Intelligence evolved at least twice on Earth.

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2025/04/12

In science-nerd circles, people lately have been really into talking about how many times crabs evolve — that is, how many unrelated invertebrate families wind up mutating into … Read the rest “Intelligence evolved at least twice on Earth.” The post Intelligence evolved at least twice on Earth. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Portuguese Man-Of-War, Tongued Sarsia,...

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2025/04/06

This image comes from Philip Henry Gosse’s A Year at the Shore, specifically, the month of October. (The year isn’t specified, but the book was published in 1865.) Gosse was… Read the rest “Science Art: Portuguese Man-Of-War, Tongued Sarsia, by Philip Henry Gosse” The post Science Art: Portuguese Man-Of-War, Tongued Sarsia, by Philip Henry Gosse first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.

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2025/03/31

This is a mudskipper who is being drawn here solely for the qualities of its bulbous, beautiful eyes. The illustration is from page 453 of The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation by … Read the rest “Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.” The post Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942. first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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The smell of Venus de Milo

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2025/03/28

NPR reports on new findings for classical works of art. It’s pretty well known now that the stark white of ancient Greek marble statues was originally a lot more colorful when they … Read the rest “The smell of Venus de Milo”The post The smell of Venus de Milo first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Krill sniff penguin poop

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2025/03/26

And, says National Geographic, it makes them take evasive maneuvers, ready to dodge their Antarctic predators: In Antarctica’s Palmer Station lab, scientists put wild-caught krill … Read the rest “Krill sniff penguin poop” The post Krill sniff penguin poop first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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AI can’t beat Pokémon

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2025/03/26

Something for your inner 12-year-old to feel superior about, as published in Ars Technica. Anthropic’s Claude AI, pretty helpful at summarizing documents and parsing transcripts,… Read the rest “AI can’t beat Pokémon” The post AI can’t beat Pokémon first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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Science Art: Lincoln’s Measurements, compared with...

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2025/03/24

This is part of a graphic from a 1953 issue of Natural History, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s magazine. The article it’s illustrating is about taking a life mask… Read the rest “Science Art: Lincoln’s Measurements, compared with “Old Americans,” 1953 (detail).”The post Science Art: Lincoln’s Measurements, compared with “Old Americans,” 1953 (detail). first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.

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