Science Art: ECHO 100′ Satellite Inflation Tests, 1958.
A satellite that is also a balloon, as inflated at NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1958.
I found this image gleaming in the NASA Image and Video Library.
Articles by grant
SONG: FAQs
SONG: “FAQs”. (available as .wav here)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on Popular Science, 14 Aug 2023, “School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books,”… Read the rest “SONG: FAQs”
Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972
This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org.
Stories inside include ways to project different-sized letters on a cathode-ray screen,… Read the rest “Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972”
ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition
Popular Science discusses a school board in Iowa using ChatGPT to itemize the books that should be removed from library shelves because they ‘contain a description or depiction … Read the rest “ChatGPT, the Fahrenheit 451 edition”
Wanna watch the watchers?
The Markup is making an offer to anyone with a Facebook account – even an inactive one. Previously, they mapped out how the Meta Pixel (formerly the Facebook Pixel) gathered people’s… Read the rest “Wanna watch the watchers?”
Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf
This is a tiny component in an amplifier, seen way up close.
If you want the specifics, from the Wikimedia Commons page where I found it:
… Read the rest “Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf”45V, 0.03A 300mW 3-Pin TO-18
The 2N930 is designed for
Human coronavirus meds cure deadly cat disease.
The Guardian reports from Cyprus, where an antiviral medicine for human COVID-19 patients has proved effective against a deadly outbreak of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease… Read the rest “Human coronavirus meds cure deadly cat disease.”
There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)
Eurosurveillance reports on an ongoing epidemic that has seen a contagious strain of avian influenza, HPAI H5N1, jump from birds to mammals, where it’s spread from wild seagulls… Read the rest “There’s a bird flu epidemic in fur farms. (This is not great.)”
Science Art: The First Larva, or the first free-swimming stage of the lobster, 1895.
Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Twinkle loudly, little star
Science Daily has the story of a research team at Northwestern University that has determined the way any particular star should twinkle – which is a phenomenon based in part on how… Read the rest “Twinkle loudly, little star”
Is this a mad scientist being busted? Something worse?
Ars Technica covers a weird, almost cinematic story out of California, where law enforcement officials have, following a code-enforcement tip, just busted an illegal lab filled with … Read the rest “Is this a mad scientist being busted? Something worse?”
Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898
This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in my living room. But anyway, three very different objects… Read the rest “Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898”
Theater of Nero discovered in Rome.
The expat news magazine Wanted in Rome reports on an archaeological discovery in the shadow of the Vatican – a theater dedicated to the notorious Emperor Nero before 70 CE, but lost… Read the rest “Theater of Nero discovered in Rome.”
Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.
PhysOrg introduces us to Gnathia jimmybuffetti, a little marine mystery-bug (or literally, “cryptofauna”) related to roly-poly pillbugs but named for that fella still… Read the rest “Parrot-heads, celebrate: New isopod discovered in Florida Keys named for you-know-who.”
Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer
The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to practice … Read the rest “Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer”