Click to embiggen An ancient Roman central heating system – hot water would be flooded through the basement, and the floors would warm up. “Hypocaust” […]
Here, an astronomical family is building a 36-inch refractor telescope known as the Great Lick Refractor in the 1880s. It’s named for James Lick, an […]
Click to embiggen A bird in its home (grown on a vine, fashioned by humans). Cute little guy, too. I found this on the Scientific […]
This image is from the British Library archive, a book called The Cruise of the Marchesa … With maps and … woodcuts drawn by J. […]
SONG: “My Batteries” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Jacob Margolis’ Twitter feed, 13 Feb 2019, 3:30 AM “The last message they received…,” as used in […]
A close-up of the tiny ear-bones of a few kinds of animals, including human beings. This is a detail of a page from Musurgia Universalis, […]
This is a copepod, a critter related to the Spongebob character Plankton. It’s from a book called Histoire des monocles that came out in 1820. […]
Click to embiggen A chart of the sky, showing how Ancient Romans measured time in the year 8 CE – meaning, what hora it was […]
Click to embiggen I’ve always had a thing for these guys – the frills are so, well, *frilly*. I don’t usually picture them looking quite […]
SONG: “2014 MU₆₉ (Approach Me)” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News, 30 Dec 2018-1 Jan 2019, “Live updates: New Horizons’ flyby of a distant […]
Click to embiggen Phoning home from the next world over. This is how it looked half a century ago. You can find more James Burns […]
Click to embiggen This is the cover of an early science fiction hit, Robert Cromie’s A Plunge into Space, which was in print from 1890 […]
Click to embiggen An image of an arum, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Aroideae, 1 album, consisting of plates from Heinrich Wilhelm Schott’s Aroideae. The […]
Click to embiggen NASA serves the ham in a tray. “Little Joe” was a test rocket named for a kind of craps roll – because […]
Click to embiggen Something appropriate for the season and, maybe, for Comet Wirtanen… from nemfrog: Tiny planets, visitors from other worlds, become white-hot and are […]
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