This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorolo…
Read moreSONG: “We Ate Each Other’s Wings”. (OGG version here.)
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Read moreReally, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1.
“CNSA” is…
Read moreThis is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming…
Read moreAn illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, whic…
Read moreA spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip.
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This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we know) had ever been to space at the time Henry De la Beche drew this. He’d started… Read the rest “Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.”
Styxosaurus is, or was, an elasmosaur – an undersea predator with a long neck and sharp teeth, all the better for grabbing ammonites and prehistoric fish for a quick snack. It takes… Read the rest “Science Art: Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.”
SONG: “Lady at the Generator”. (available as .ogg here)
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This is the cover page of Science-Gossip magazine, “an illustrated monthly record of nature, country lore, & applied science.”
There are articles in here about Departmental… Read the rest “Science Art: Science-Gossip cover page, Dec. 1899.”
A valve to prevent backflow… so the river doesn’t wind up in the reservoir, or the effluent in the shower pipes.
From A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering:… Read the rest “Science Art: Check Valve, 1882.”
Calcite refracts light in a linear way – it’s why (as previous songs have discussed) it may have been used as a navigational tool by Vikings. It tends to make light that passes… Read the rest “Science Art: Fluorescence and birefringence of 445 nm blue laser in calcite crystal, Jan Pavelka, 2011.”
This glimpse into a prehistoric world (which we now know should probably have at least a few more feathers in it) is part of the first series of chromolithographic cards created by German … Read the rest “Science Art: Nyctodactlyus, by F. John, c. 1915”
This is a nebula inside a nebula, caused by two stars pulling each other apart, as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
From the description at the NSSDCA Photo Gallery:
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This is a solar-powered generator. A funnel with sides angled at 90 degrees is pointed at the sun to catch its radiation, and those rays are bounced by the funnel’s mirrored walls toward… Read the rest “Science Art: Mouchot’s solar thermal collector from 1860, from Nordisk Familjebok, 1917.”
SONG: “Hymn of Acxiom” (a penitential cover). (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: This isn’t based on research. It’s a cover of “Hymn of Acxiom,”… Read the rest “SONG: Hymn of Acxiom (a penintential cover)”
There’s a killer on the road indeed. The WPA released this poster to discourage drunk driving, or at least running your hotrod on moonshine.
Public health has never been this metal… Read the rest “Science Art: Don’t Mix ‘Em!, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration, 1936.”
This tasty-looking fruit is from a medical text – Medical Botany: or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias;… Read the rest “Science Art: Punica Granatum, 1829”
Two cats at dusk, growling in the snow.
The nights have been long, but they’re growing shorter.
May you survive your own lonely wilderness and find warmth and companionship where … Read the rest “Science Art: Lynxes, by Louis Sargent, 1909”
SONG: “Burning Libraries”. (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 12 Oct 2023, “Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned… Read the rest “SONG: Burning Libraries”
This is an illustration from a 1937 edition of Natural History magazine, an article called “Chinese Design.” This is a “Disk of Heaven,” or bi, a slightly mysterious… Read the rest “Science Art: Ancient Ritual White Jade Disk of Heaven…, 1937”
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