When you’re a pioneering aviator, it pays to have a brother who’s an illustrator.
From the Tissandier collection in the Library of Congress, a dream of the sky from the past.
In 1875, Gaston Tissandier flew higher than anyone had ever gone. Two of his companions died from the altitude and he went deaf. [...]
This is how to get hydrogen and oxygen from water – acidulated water – by using a Grove’s battery and two platinum wires. And “decomposing” the water. Try it at home!
An educational image from Chemistry, by Henry Enfield Roscoe.
SONG: “This Stupid War.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Pesticide exposure linked to brain changes: study”, AFP, via Yahoo!News, 30 Apr 2012, as used in the post “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”.
ABSTRACT: This song was a response to Bill Corbett’s SongFu prompt, “Write an upbeat, danceable [...]
In 1912, aeronautics was a sport.
And the athletes had to start their engines somehow… so Bosch, now known mostly for their spark plugs, made magnetos. And summoned pilot genies to keep those flying machines in the air.
This bit of science art nouveau was found on archive.org. The same issue has a wonderful
This is what America meant for Claude Auge, who edited Le Larousse pour tous nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique in 1909.
Eskimos and tapirs.
You can browse through your Larousse at the Open Library.
This is a flatworm. A German flatworm. It may be a distant cousin of the planarians that hypnotized Dutch artist M.C. Escher with their two-dimensional lives and their bizarre ability to learn by eating the brains of the educated.
It’s probably not thinking about that, though. Look into its eyespots. Did you see that?
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature, “A Mad Hemorrhage” blog, 2 Apr 2012, as used in the post “About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.”.
ABSTRACT: This song was a response to Mike Phirman’s SongFu [...]
This is an image of a transit of Kepler 16. What that means is that, from where we’re sitting, it looks like the 16th planet discovered by the Kepler mission is moving (transiting) in front of the star it orbits. Or, in this case, stars – Kepler 16 has two suns.
The planet, called Kepler-16b, is [...]
Happy blood. April fool blood. Pancreas blood. Turning sweetness to pep blood. Smiling blood.
Very, very enlarged blood.
Image from Wikimedia Commons.
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