The Guild of Scientific Troubadours https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com ex scientia, sono Fri, 15 May 2026 17:26:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-favicon5-32x32.png The Guild of Scientific Troubadours https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com 32 32 noscience,scientific,geek,geeky,geekcore,lo,fi,indie,research,discovery,tech,technology,biology,archaeology,geology,anthropology,experiment,study,scientist,zoology,arithmetic,physics,engineering,astronomy,geneticsSongs of science. Songs of science. grant balfourguildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.comgrant balfour Neanderthals died out from something like loneliness https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/05/15/neanderthals-died-out-from-something-like-loneliness/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=neanderthals-died-out-from-something-like-loneliness Fri, 15 May 2026 17:26:14 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15079 Or maybe “loner-ism.” IFL Science reports on new research showing that what might have led to the demise of Neanderthals as a distinct kind of human was the lack of a social network… Read the rest “Neanderthals died out from something like loneliness”

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]]> Or maybe “loner-ism.” IFL Science reports on new research showing that what might have led to the demise of Neanderthals as a distinct kind of human was the lack of a social network… Read the rest “Neanderthals died out from something like loneliness”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) A Florida high schooler got anxiety meds from tarantua venom. https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/05/13/a-florida-high-schooler-got-anxiety-meds-from-tarantua-venom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-florida-high-schooler-got-anxiety-meds-from-tarantua-venom Wed, 13 May 2026 20:34:20 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15076 Relax, the spider is here to soothe you. Tampa Bay Times reported on Daniel Park, who won a state-wide science competition by using his computers to design a drug candidate for treating anxiety… Read the rest “A Florida high schooler got anxiety meds from tarantua venom.”

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]]> Relax, the spider is here to soothe you. Tampa Bay Times reported on Daniel Park, who won a state-wide science competition by using his computers to design a drug candidate for treating anxiety… Read the rest “A Florida high schooler got anxiety meds from tarantua venom.”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/05/11/science-art-paraboloide-circular-02-by-rodrigo-argenton/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-art-paraboloide-circular-02-by-rodrigo-argenton Mon, 11 May 2026 02:50:24 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15073 This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a *circular* paraboloid … Read the rest “Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton”

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]]> This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a *circular* paraboloid … Read the rest “Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/05/11/brazilian-villages-make-a-good-living-protecting-a-giant-fish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazilian-villages-make-a-good-living-protecting-a-giant-fish Mon, 11 May 2026 02:33:23 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15071 Science reports on a conservation project that’s also helping some of the poorest people on the planet — villagers along the Juruá River, a western tributary of the Amazon … Read the rest “Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish”

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]]> Science reports on a conservation project that’s also helping some of the poorest people on the planet — villagers along the Juruá River, a western tributary of the Amazon … Read the rest “Brazilian villages make a good living protecting a giant fish”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) The Earliest Emperor Butterfly https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/05/09/the-earliest-emperor-butterfly/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-earliest-emperor-butterfly Sat, 09 May 2026 05:54:15 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15069 IFL Science reports on the (beautiful) discovery of a (well-preserved) butterfly from 34 million years ago … a specimen with visible, identifiable wing patterns and veins that … Read the rest “The Earliest Emperor Butterfly”

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]]> IFL Science reports on the (beautiful) discovery of a (well-preserved) butterfly from 34 million years ago … a specimen with visible, identifiable wing patterns and veins that … Read the rest “The Earliest Emperor Butterfly”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/05/04/science-art-azimuth-and-altitude-instrument-c-1876/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-art-azimuth-and-altitude-instrument-c-1876 Mon, 04 May 2026 02:45:08 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15065 This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can leaf through … Read the rest “Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876”

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]]> This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can leaf through … Read the rest “Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil. https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/05/01/trees-grow-six-times-taller-in-strange-amazonian-soil/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trees-grow-six-times-taller-in-strange-amazonian-soil Fri, 01 May 2026 16:24:11 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15062 BBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as it is… though no one knows how it… Read the rest “Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.”

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]]> BBC’s Science Focus is digging in the dirt to get inside the mystery of “dark earth,” which seems to make the Amazon as fertile as it is… though no one knows how it… Read the rest “Trees grow six times taller in strange Amazonian soil.”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge. https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/04/27/science-art-solar-explosions-g79-by-clement-lindley-wragge/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-art-solar-explosions-g79-by-clement-lindley-wragge Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:23:53 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15059 This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died in 1922.

There’s a collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.”

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]]> This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died in 1922.

There’s a collection… Read the rest “Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.”

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour) SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/04/24/song-we-ate-each-others-wings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=song-we-ate-each-others-wings Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:34:24 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15057 SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating… Read the rest “SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings”

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]]> SONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

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]]> guildmaster@guildofscientifictroubadours.com (grant balfour)noSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating… Read the rest “SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings” The post SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.grant balfourSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “These roaches form exclusive long-term relationships after eating… Read the rest “SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings” The post SONG: We Ate Each Other’s Wings first appeared on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours.science,scientific,geek,geeky,geekcore,lo,fi,indie,research,discovery,tech,technology,biology,archaeology,geology,anthropology,experiment,study,scientist,zoology,arithmetic,physics,engineering,astronomy,genetics Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2026/04/20/science-art-mars-cloudy-north-polar-cap-by-andrea-luck/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-art-mars-cloudy-north-polar-cap-by-andrea-luck Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:04:06 +0000 https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=15054 Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.

“CNSA” is the China National Space Administration – this… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck”

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]]> Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.

“CNSA” is the China National Space Administration – this… Read the rest “Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck”

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