Enlarge / A Brazilian Tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius) with his cheating red feathers looking up at the sky. (credit: Rogerio Peccioli | Getty) Female tanager birds dig flamboyant males. So to build plumage that really pops with orange or red or yellow, a male has to eat fruits and absorb their carotenoids. The fancy feathers he […]
In 4:45pm CT on Wednesday, SN8 took to the heavens. [credit: Trevor Mahlmann ] Since the Sun awakened ahead of the South Texas horizon, a fantastical-looking spaceship climbed into the reddening sky. It had been, in a note, epic. Developed by three Raptor aircraft motors, SpaceX’s 50-meter-tall Starship automobile climbed out across the Gulf of […]
Time to unwrap this slew of Analogue Pocket add-on boxes and judge what’s inside. (credit: Sam Machkovech) As a dedicated, Game Boy-like handheld, Analogue Pocket offers plenty of self-contained fun for $219. So much fun, in fact, that I was able to write 8,000 words about it earlier this week. Shortly after I finished that […]