SONG: I Had A Fever
SONG: “I Had A Fever”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Can Microbes Encourage Altruism?,” Scientific American, 17 Jul 2017, as used in the post “Does kindness come from […]
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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 …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience 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 …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
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Science Art: Torpille Moderne/Torpille Ancienne from Dreadnought ou submersible by Olivier Guihéneuc, 1916
Click to embiggen Two torpedoes, modern (as of 1916) and ancient. That’s about the limit of my French. The book is about naval warfare, and […]
Science Art: Dinotherium, by Heinrich Harder,1916.
Click to embiggen This is a fairly speculative reconstruction of an elephant-relative we really only know from footprints (or so says Wikimedia Commons, who are […]
Science Art: The Edison Multipolar Dynamo, 1894
Click to embiggen A big electric machine, as pictured in The United States of America. A study of the American Commonwealth, its natural resources, people, […]
Science Art: Some User Assembly Required, NASA “Mars Explorers Wanted” collection.
Click to embiggen vastly A poster recruiting colonists to Mars. A bit early, sure, but it can’t hurt to be ready. Though I wonder how […]
SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the post “Here’s […]
Science Art: Top view of ribbon diagram of ribonuclease inhibitor (PDB accession code 2BNH).
Click to embiggen Ooo! Everyone loves a party! This is a protein, though, not a party decoration. The full title of this image (or, really, […]
Science Art: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear by Hoefnagel and Bocskay, 1561-2.
Wildflower and fruit, from two 16th-century Europeans. More specifically: Medlar, Poppy Anenome, Pear ( 1561 – 1562 ). Watercolour, gold and silver paint, and ink […]
Science Art: Cassini’s view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, 2014
Click embiggen So much depends on perspective. Image from the European Space Agency – taken by Cassini on its way to Saturn, and doing a […]
Science Art: Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery: Polished Red – p. 1-22
Click to embiggen Silhouettes of polished redware from the Ancient Egyptian (or, really, older than Ancient Egyptian) Naqada culture. That’s about 5,500 years old, a […]
SONG: Facts Will Save Us All
SONG: “Facts Will Save Us All”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove,” New York Times, 17 Apr 2017, as used in […]
Science Art: Lychee, from Flora Sinensis, 1656.
This is Litchi chinensis, 荔枝, the lychee, sometimes called a “lychee nut” although it’s not nut-like at all. It’s more like a muscadine (tough skin, […]
SONG: Another Girl, Another Planet (penitential cover)
SONG: “Another Girl, Another Planet” (penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the April […]
Science Art: Blackbird SR-71 engine nozzle, 2011
Click to embiggen “Internal view of a Pratt & Whitney J58 afterburner and exhaust nozzle.” Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: The Myology of the Raven, 1890
Click to embiggen This is the head and neck of a raven, Corvus corax sinuatus, as dissected and drawn by Robert W. Shufeldt. I look […]