Interesting Stuff: February 2009 (II)

Astronomy:

• The Milky Way galaxy still feels the effects of a two-billion-year-old collision.

Animal biology:

• Via The Intersection, I visited Vanessa Woods’s website. It’s worth a browse. I’ve read some of Vanessa’s work in magazines.
• An article broadcast on Catalyst revealed that horses are not so smart.
• Greg laden discusses chimps and bonobos.
• A weird fish that I’d never heard of before.

Blog Activity:

• A comment of mine on Language Log prompted Mark Liberman to extrapolate in the second half of another article.

Geology:

• Exploring buried Antarctic mountains.
• Singing about geology.

Inventions:

• Washing machine bicycle.
• Nano-origami.

Medicine:

• A new material for patching up broken bones.
• Safer electrodes for your brain.

Music:

• I liked this Chinese video that was posted on Language Log. Not your typical rap music.

Palaeontology:

• An article from Laelaps on the discovery of human antiquity in the 1890’s.
• Long-necked stegosaur discovered.

Physics:

• I’d not heard of neutron halos before reading this article.

Psychology:

• An experiment showing one way in which colour perception in the brain is influenced by language.
• An optical illusion and its relevance for art.

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