Click to embiggen Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space. From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future […]
Click to embiggen Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks […]
Embryonic television. I like how this device has an almost Lovecraftian vibe, as if sending moving pictures was a thing that involved mystical processes. What’s […]
Click to embiggen What’s inside a Ukranian volcano. Or most volcanoes, wherever the are. From a Ukranian encyclopedia for Ukrainian miners (ISBN 966-7804-14-3).
SONG: “The Russian Cuckoo Reproduces in the Midnight Sun” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Popular Science, 7 May 2018, “Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska”, […]
Click to embiggen Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are. I like that there’s a […]
Click to embiggen Jellyfish. Deep sea medusae. By Ernst Haeckel and A. Giltsch. From Vol. 4, pt.11-13 of Report on the scientific results of the […]
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a […]
Click to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces! “Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed. Here’s how much room some of […]
SONG: “At 6 A.M.” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 17 Apr 2018, “Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing”, as used in the […]
Click to embiggen Mmm. Switches. Communication.
Click to embiggen NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other […]
Click to embiggen This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift […]
From De formatione ovi, et pulli, by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, also known as Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio d’Acquapendente. He was an Italian surgeon who […]
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into […]
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