SONG: Lady at the Generator
SONG: “Lady at the Generator”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Amsterdam UMC, 4 Jan 2024, “Tiredness Experienced by Long Covid Patients […]
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Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
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SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
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Science Art: Science-Gossip cover page, Dec. 1899.
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 […]
Science Art: Check Valve, 1882.
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 […]
Science Art: Fluorescence and birefringence of 445 nm blue laser in calcite crystal, Jan Pavelka, 2011.
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 […]
Science Art: Nyctodactlyus, by F. John, c. 1915
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 […]
Science Art: He2-104: The Southern Crab Nebula, 1999.
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 […]
Science Art: Mouchot’s solar thermal collector from 1860, from Nordisk Familjebok, 1917.
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 […]
SONG: Hymn of Acxiom (a penintential cover)
SONG: “Hymn of Acxiom” (a penitential cover). (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on research. It’s a cover of “Hymn of […]
Science Art: Don’t Mix ‘Em!, by Robert Lachenman for the Work Projects Administration, 1936.
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 […]
Science Art: Punica Granatum, 1829
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 […]
Science Art: Lynxes, by Louis Sargent, 1909
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 […]
SONG: Burning Libraries
SONG: “Burning Libraries”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 12 Oct 2023, “Researchers use AI to read word on ancient […]
Science Art: Ancient Ritual White Jade Disk of Heaven…, 1937
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, […]
Science Art: Ryan 262 Manta Ray: Program Status Report cover, 1975
This is the cover of a report on the Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical “Navy Mini-Drone (STARS),” otherwise known as the Manta Ray. It was a fiberglass […]
Science Art: Exoplanets Poster, Institute of Physics, 2023
This is a… well, it’s pretty self-explanatory, really. Unlike most of the images collected here, it’s got its own description printed right on it. These […]