SONG: The Russian Cuckoo Reproduces in the Midnight Sun
SONG: “The Russian Cuckoo Reproduces in the Midnight Sun”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Popular Science, 7 May 2018, “Russian cuckoos are taking over Alaska”, 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: Mercury Spacecraft Main Instrument Panel, 1959.
Click to embiggen Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are. I like that there’s a […]
Science Art: Ptychogena Pinnulata, 1882.
Click to embiggen Jellyfish. Deep sea medusae. By Ernst Haeckel and A. Giltsch. From Vol. 4, pt.11-13 of Report on the scientific results of the […]
Science Art: Tab X from Ueber den Pollen by Carl Julius Fritzsche, 1837.
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a […]
Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.
Click to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces! “Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed. Here’s how much room some of […]
SONG: At 6 A.M.
SONG: “At 6 A.M.”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Nature, 17 Apr 2018, “Medicine’s secret ingredient — it’s in the timing”, as used in the post “Chronotherapy […]
Science Art: Selector Used for Timing Supervisory Signals, from The Bell System Technical Journal
Click to embiggen Mmm. Switches. Communication.
Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975
Click to embiggen NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other […]
Science Art: A View From A Launch, by NASA/Joel Kowsky
Click to embiggen This is the bus that takes the astronauts to work at the space station. It’s a long commute for a longer shift […]
Science Art: Growth of Egg of Hen, c. 16th century.
From De formatione ovi, et pulli, by Fabricius ab Aquapendente, also known as Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio d’Acquapendente. He was an Italian surgeon who […]
Science Art: Kerr-Flaechen.gif (Ergospheres, Event horizons and the ring singularity of a rotating black hole.)
This is an animated gif showing a ring singularity or “ringularity” of a spinning black hole. A black hole that doesn’t spin will collapse into […]
SONG: Titanium (penitential cover)
SONG: “Titanium” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the February song. (I think […]
Science Art: Accipitres, Osprey, Goshawk, &c., 1889
Click to embiggen Funny I should have found this image today, right after discussing Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk (a book bloody and wonderful, […]
Science Art: With this electrolytic cell as little as a milligram of various heavy metals may be precisely determined, 1922
Click to embiggen Early electronics: a cell for isolating minute quantities of heavy metals, apparently by zapping a drop of a solution under a powerful […]
Science Art: Australia’s Largest Birds, from What Bird Is That? by Neville William Cayley.
Click to embiggen Big birds haven’t changed too much since 1931. These are: Anseranas semipalmata Pelecanus conspicillatus Casuarius casuarius Cereopsis novaehollandiae Ardeotis australis Grus rubicunda […]