Science Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy. If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are: Legend 1 Arm 2 Ampullae 3 Radial canal 4 Gonads […]
Starfish anatomy. If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are: Legend 1 Arm 2 Ampullae 3 Radial canal 4 Gonads […]
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a little more. It’s […]
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was created by Swiss explorer/geologist/teacher/photographer Leo Wehrli… maybe. […]
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes. As the caption from Popular Electronics says (found here, on archive.org): A fossil particle was […]
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least now we say it […]
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details : employed in the design […]
SONG: “Sevengill (Notorynchus Cepedianus)”, a penitential Giant Squid Cover. (OGG version
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty as a northern elephant seal. They […]
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found on archive.org) that also bore […]
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on their own aren’t […]
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the four views of an echocardiogram, and […]
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia”, ABC News (Australia), 10 […]
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, on archive.org — and, […]
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. […]
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