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Science Art: <i>Mirounga leonina 01</i>, by H. Zell

Science Art: <i>What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?</i>, 1963.

Science Art: <i>Cygnus region in emission lines</i>, 2025

Science Art: <i>Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions</i>, by Patrick Lynch

Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell

This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …

Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.

This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…

Science Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025

This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…

Science Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch

This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…

SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals

SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…

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

16 July 2023 grant 0

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.

10 July 2023 grant 0

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.

2 July 2023 grant 0

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Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905

25 June 2023 grant 0

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

24 June 2023 grant 0

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

19 June 2023 grant 0

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 […]

Scientific illustration of a nebula in deep space, the blue-gray "pillars of creation" rising like stony fingers of cloud against a sunset-orange backdrop, illuminated by glowing maginta spheres of new stars.

Science Art: NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (Pillars of Creation), 2023

11 June 2023 grant 0

This is an image made by combining visible light (from the Hubble and ESO orbiting telescopes) and invisible infrared and X-ray imagery (from the Webb, […]

Scientific illustration of a banyan-dwelling plant bug named for the goddess Lakshmi. The young ones are resplendent in royal blue and crimson.

Science Art: Habitus images of Chimairacoris lakshmiae, 2015.

5 June 2023 grant 0

This is a plant bug. That’s the technical term – it’s part of that group of insects called “true bugs,” the family Miridae; plant bugs […]

Scientific illustration of public water utilities and hydrological equipment from the steampunk era.

Science Art: Intercepting Well, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by R.S. Bross, 1882.

28 May 2023 grant 0

This is an illustration of a public waterwork taken from the pages of A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, […]

SONG: In the Years Before A/C

27 May 2023 grant 0

SONG: “In the Years Before A/C”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: National Park Service, 1 May 2023, “National Park archeologists find remains of an underwater hospital and […]

Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841

21 May 2023 grant 0

These are painted buntings, “1.2.3. males in different states of plumage and 4. female” in the branches of a chickasaw wild plum, as displayed in […]

Scientific illustration of Chinese fisherman on two sampans, balancing on a plank between the traditional watercraft.

Science Art: Causerie sur la Peche Fluviale en Chine, 1909.

15 May 2023 grant 0

Do two sampans make a catamaran? Looks like they did for this Chinese fisherman at the dawn of the last century, angling on the river […]

Scientific illustration of valves from Engineer's Sketchbook, a beautiful collection of steampunk diagrams.

Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.

7 May 2023 grant 0

Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances […]

Scientific illustration of a cochlear implant; a bionic ear.

Science Art: Implantatet placeras under huden bakom örat…, 2008.

30 April 2023 grant 0

This image, by Wikimedia Commons user Seslami~commonswiki, shows an implantable electronic device that allows some people to hear, or to hear better. What we’re seeing […]

Scientific illustration of a plesiosaur skull, a marine dinosaur (or dinosaur-like critter) with a long, beaky snout and some sharp-looking teeth.

Science Art: Skull of Trinocromerum willistoni, Dorothea Franzen,1944.

23 April 2023 grant 0

This is the head of a plesiosaur from Kansas, back in the day when Kansas was an inland sea. Or a picture from back in […]