SONG: Dirt Poor
SONG: “Dirt Poor”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Dirty emotions: Microbes in soil may affect hormones tied to love, mental health and […]
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Science 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 …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
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Science Art: We Live With the Seminoles opener, 1942
This is the first page of an article from Natural History Magazine‘s April 1942 edition, which I found on archive.org. Today, the Seminole Tribe owns […]
Science Art: Les 7 Instances selon Charles Baudouin, by CBCB
These are the seven elements of a psyche, a person’s sense of self, as mapped out by Charles Baudouin, a French contemporary of Freud, Jung, […]
Science Art: Bisphenalenyl Biradical Ball, by Jynto, 2011
I found this illustration in the Wikimedia Commons “Category: Radicals” collection – it stood out from the other diagrams and models. Maybe because it looks […]
Science Art: If Resolution and Recognizability are Important to You…, 1966
A General Electrodynamics Corporation ad for a television camera vidicon, a video camera tube – a thing that works like an old-fashioned television screen, scanning […]
Science Art: How ChatGPT visualizes itself.webp, by ChatGPT
Yes, this is AI art. But it is AI art that is by AI and about AI. From the image description on Wikimedia Commons: ChatGPT […]
SONG: Jet Lagged
SONG: “Jet Lagged”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Depression linked to ‘internal jet lag’, study finds,” University of Sydney, 16 July 2025, […]
Science Art: Poissons (B), by Adolphe Millot .
The fish, the fishes of the world, including at least one extinct fish (#21, Ceratodus, the coelacanth-looking one down there on the bottom left). There […]
Science Art: Long-Tsing-Yu or Les Yeux des Dragon
These are some of the first goldfish ever seen in Europe. The image (which I found in a great Public Domain Review article) came from […]
Science Art: First missile launched at Cape Canaveral, July 24, 1950.
A photo from the San Diego Air and Space Museum’s collection of Images from NASA/Cape Canaveral. Here are a couple of quotes from a recent […]
Science Art: A four stage sequential game with a foresight bound, Marco Mantovani
This is a game theory diagram from the paper, “Limited backward induction: foresight and behavior in sequential games,” though I found it on Wikimedia Commons. […]
SONG: Something’s Knocking on the Door
SONG: “Something’s Knocking on the Door”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “China’s Bold Plan Unveiled: A Deep-Sea Space Station 6560 Feet Underwater […]
Science Art: A New Hummingbird From Ecuador, 1926
From the pages of the November-December 1926 issue of Natural History magazine (found on archive.org) flies “The Aethereal Sylph (Cyanolesbia coelestis aetherius Chapman)”. The blue… […]
Science Art: The “Rotterdam Ship” was one of the earliest submarines…, 1934
This image is actually much older than 1934; it’s just that that is when William Beebe published it (courtesy of the New York Public Library) […]
Science Art: Cyamus boopis, Lütken, 1895.
Cyamis boopis is one of the cyamidae better known as a whale louse. This particular species is from Scandinavia, as illustrated in the book An […]