SONG: Secret Dragons
SONG: “Secret Dragons”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: The Guardian 2 March 2023, “‘Like a little dragon’: new gecko species discovered on rugged Queensland island,” as used […]
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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 …
Read moreScience 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…
Read moreScience 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…
Read moreScience 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…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
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Science Art: From Four Roses des Vents, by Vincenzo Coronelli.
This is one of four compass roses created by Vincenzo Coronelli, a 17th-century cartographer. I found them all on Wikimedia Commons, which got them from […]
Science Art: Male Wood Duck, by Abbott H. Thayer, 1904.
This is half of one color plate from a book intended to show how “showy” coloration can actually make some creatures harder to spot in […]
Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.
This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and […]
Science Art: Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown, by NASA/Keegan Barber, 2023
SpaceX Dragon Endurance returns to Earth on the night of March 11, 2023. Specifically, it’s just after 9:00 p.m. in the waters off Tampa, Florida. […]
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy” (a penitential Werk cover)
SONG: “Giant Isopods Have Stolen My Gameboy”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no source in scientific research; it’s a penitential cover of a song by […]
SONG: The Elephant
SONG: “The Elephant”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: BBC 28 Feb 2023, “Kerala: India temple replaces elephant with robot for rituals,” as used in the post “Kerala […]
Science Art: A Fossil Flower (Cycadeoidea ingens), 1924.
This is a photograph of a model from the Field Museum of Natural History, representing a cycad flower reconstructed from a fossil. The fossil came […]
Science Art: ISS Aug 2005, by NASA.
The Space Shuttle Discovery shot this photo of the International Space Station flying high over the Caspian Sea during the STS-114 Return to Flight mission. […]
Science Art: Britannia Co.’s Patent Screwing Machine, 1890.
“Screws at one single cut,” the ad boasts. This is an ad from the front of The Engineer’s Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, by Thomas W. […]
Science Art: Evibacus princeps, 2019
It’s a wickle baby slipper lobster! That color came from it being prepared on a slide so it could be examined under a microscope. The […]
Science Art: Mimodactylus in life, 2019.
This is a painting of Mimodactylus libanensis soaring over what Nature (where it was first published) called “Afro-Arabia,” a continent that existed many millions of […]
Science Art: Test Apparatus, 1960
A test apparatus, as used for the article “Modification of Force Feed Lubricators” in the 1960-05 edition of Lubrication Engineering. The idea was to study […]
Science Art: Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, 2011
An image from NASA/JPL-Caltech depicting a capsule starting to slow down in the Martian atmosphere. All we see is the outer structure, which seems mostly […]
Science Art: DNA Double Helix, by the National Human Genome Research Institute
An image of the machine that builds our bodies, bit by bit. From the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, located at […]