Science Art: Neuron Matrix, by Nicolas P. Rougier
Click to embiggen slightly A nerve, an electric cell, a node in a network. A place and size where electricity meets chemistry inside our bodies. […]
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Science Art: UCF Space Game football uniform, 2019
Click to embiggen vastly UCF, the University of Central Florida, is the university closest to the Kennedy Space Center, and has a rivalry with the […]
Science Art: Major John Wesley Powell’s Boat, the Emma Dean, 1871.
Click to embiggen Major John Wesley Powell was a soldier and explorer, a geologist and a professor who led the first government expedition down the […]
SONG: “Multicellular”
SONG: “Multicellular” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 17 October 2019, “Acrobatic choanoflagellates could help explain how multicellularity evolved,” as used in the post […]
Science Art: The normal conduction system of the heart, by Rob Kreuger.
Just looking at heart pictures. No reason. Nice when they work right. Image from Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Development of the Gonophore…., 1891
Click to embiggen From Johns Hopkins circular “On the Structure and Development of the Gonophores of a Certain Siphonophore Belonging to the Order Auronectae (Haeckel).” […]
SONG: Adria
SONG: “Adria” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science, 6 September 2019, “Geologists uncover history of lost continent buried beneath Europe,” as used in the post […]
Science Art: Lower Bagshot Clays, Nr. Wareham, 1868
An image from an 1868 book, On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata, which was the subject of a collection in the Public Domain […]
Science Art: From Theosophia Practica, by Johann Georg Gichtel, 1696
Click to embiggen A secret body around our visible body, from the 1600s. A subtle anatomy. Planetary correspondences. This is where we get the idea […]
Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane
Click to embiggen Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t. This is […]
Science Art: Trigla Hirundo, Lin., from Gemeinnüzzige Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs (A Natural History of the Animal Kingdom)
Click to embiggen It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks […]
Science Art: Biosphere_2_-_panoramio_(4) by Qygen, 19 Aug 2003.
Click to embiggen Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was […]
SONG: Built On Sand
SONG: “Built on Sand” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 2 July 2019, “Time is running out for sand,” as used in the post “We’re […]
Science Art: (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) Mitophyllus macrocerus, male, by Des Helmore
Click to embiggen vastly A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.