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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SOURCE: Based on “These roaches for…
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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Thanks to an unexpected gift from an old friend, I was just reading an article in the print edition of Scientific American about the Sora people of eastern India, who have a unique culture … Read the rest “Science Art: Papillons, from Larousse Universe, 1922”
Uranium, which produces 3 million times more energy and 10 million times less waste!
I honestly have no idea if this PSA is real or a sarcastic reproduction. It could easily have gone with … Read the rest “Science Art: Science by Santa: Remember bad kids get coal, Good kids get Uranium….,”
SONG: “14.8 Million”.
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SOURCE: Nature 14 Dec 2022, “Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID,” as used in the post… Read the rest “SONG: 14.8 Million”
This is a NASA-released image of a very important piece of space technology. That small, color-corrected orange thing is a tiny plush Snoopy doll used to measure relative weightlessness… Read the rest “Science Art: Snoopy Hitches Ride to Space Aboard Artemis I, November 2022”
Rivers of lava glow a burning orange, sending white plumes up from a black stone landscape. This is a photograph of Hawaii – a place usually seen as a sort of paradise on Earth –… Read the rest “Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol”
These are seashells – murexes from the deep waters off Vanuatu called Scabrotrophon inspiratum. Belgian researcher Roland Houart wrote about them (and as far as I can tell photographed… Read the rest “Science Art: Scabrotrophon Species, Roland Houart, 2003.”
This is an illustration of MAGIC telescopes capturing images of very intense gamma rays. “MAGIC” refers to the twin Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes… Read the rest “Science Art: MAGIC telescopes detected the highest-energy gamma rays from a Gamma Ray Burst…, 2019.”
This is a piece written (by a pupil of Claude Debussy’s) for woodwind, percussion, bass vocal and two theremin cellos – an instrument similar to a theremin, and invented by … Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Ecuatorial” by Edgar Varese”
SONG: “Sandpaper Skin”.
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SOURCE: PLOS One 19 Oct 2022, “Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes: Possible implications … Read the rest “SONG: Sandpaper Skin”
This is a likeness of the elephant seals of Baja California, Mexico, as displayed in 1933 in the newly opened Hall of Ocean Life in the American Museum. The seals were at this point already … Read the rest “Science Art: Elephant Seals of Guadaloupe Island”
This is part of a presentation created by physicist Gerard K. O’Neill – one of three “summer studies” he carried out in the 1970s on potential space colony designs… Read the rest “Science Art: Space Colony Interior by Rick Guidice, c. 1975.”
This is a drum. Or a gong. Or maybe a throne. Or a model of the universe with little solar disks around the edge.
It was found in a bog near Balkåkra, Sweden, in 1847, but was made sometime during… Read the rest “Science Art: Balkåkra Ritual Object, Olof Sörling, 1917.”
This is one of the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. We sent machines there before we sent people.
From the Smithsonian Open Access Collection description:
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SONG: “Good People Grow”.
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SOURCE: Science 29 Sep 2022, “This lagoon is effectively a person, says Spanish law that’s attempting to save it,” … Read the rest “SONG: Good People Grow”
This is a bunch of smut. Mostly, it’s smut in the genus Ustilago growing on plants in the same genus as knotweed and buckwheat. The long flower in the middle is Polygonum hydropiper… Read the rest “Science Art: Flower of Polygonum persicarium distorted by Utricle smut and following figures, by J.E. Sowerby, 1872.”
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