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Science Art: <i>Build Your Own Lie Detector</i>, 1955

Science Art: <i>Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County</i>, 2013

Science Art: <i>Histologist Microscope</i>, 1900

Science Art: <i>Rudimentary Simulator</i>, 1963.

Science Art: <i>Astrapia Splendidissima</i>, 1895

Science Art: <i>Ever See This Before?</i>, 1966.

Science Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955

This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …

Science Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013

This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …

Science Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900

An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…

Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.

This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…

Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895

This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…

Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.

This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …

Scientific illustration of a mollusk. Perhaps a nautilus. Perhaps a snail. It's a simple line drawing, true to life, yet mysterious.

Science Art: From Notes on Cephalopods from Northern California, 1967.

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I thought this was a nautilus, but it might be a moon snail. It’s a mollusk of some kind, with a gracefully curved shell and […]

Scientific illustration in the form of a dramatic black and white photograph of a highly reflective sphere in the middle of a vast hangar lit by horizontal rows of lights so long, they seem to radiate out from a point of convergence somewhere behind the inflatable spacecraft.

Science Art: ECHO 100′ Satellite Inflation Tests, 1958.

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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 […]

SONG: FAQs

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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,” […]

Scientific illustration of a planet illuminated (or perhaps formed) by a circle of orbital lights, shining down in many colors; an illustration of computer networking in a pre-internet age.

Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972

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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 […]

Scientific illustration of an electronic component, a photograph of a transistor enlarged.

Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf

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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 […]

Scientific illustration of a baby lobster, Homerus americanus, with all its tiny feets and swimmerets, isn't it just the CUTEST!

Science Art: The First Larva, or the first free-swimming stage of the lobster, 1895.

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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 […]

Scientific illustration of perspective, showing the sizes of objects of the same shape at different distances.

Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898

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This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in […]

Scientific Illustration of a Lunar Landing Research Vehicle in mid-flight. It's a NASA hovercraft, basically.

Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer

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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 […]

SONG: The Scientist (a penitential Coldplay cover)

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SONG: “The Scientist (a penitential cover)”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on research It’s a cover of this vaguely scientific […]

Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011

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The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth […]

Scientific illustration of a times table.

Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.

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This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads: Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. […]

Scientific illustration of a meteorological diagram on a postage stamp. Looping black lines of atmospheric pressure mark an area where a warm front moves northeast where two cold fronts converge heading south.

Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.

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30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany. It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the […]

Scientific illustration of a Torosaurus, the dinosaur with the largest skull.

Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905

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I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new […]

SONG: Content Feeds

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SONG: “Content Feeds”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: The Markup, 1 May 2023, “The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT,” as used in the post “How do […]

Scientific Illustration of a kind of spinosaur known as the "hell heron."

Science Art: Ceratosuchops inferodios life reconstruction, by PaleoGeekSquared

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This is a kind of spinosaur-ancestor dubbed “the hell heron” by some dramatically minded scientists. C. inferodios was identified in 2021 from some fossil fragments […]