This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreThis is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreThis is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreThis is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreClick to embiggen This is happening now. This summer. A little flying robot is going to Pluto, the planet that wasn’t a planet, then it […]
A manual from Boston Optical Works, found on archive.org. Elegant lines those instruments had.
Click to embiggen vastly The European Space Agency was watching the jets: Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of […]
Click to embiggen A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It falls between a […]
SONG: “White Coffee and Omelets.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015,as used in the post […]
Click to embiggen A big, useful boat, from Industrial America: Manufacturers and Inventors of the United States, 1876. [via New York Public Library Digital Collections]
A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus. […]
A bygone medical device, as preserved on the Public Domain Review’s selections from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry by Samuel Howard Monell, […]
Click to embiggen This one is definitely worth clicking to embiggen. It’s from the very detailed, very large Histoire générale et particulière du développement des […]
Click to embiggen The full title of this appears to be: “D ß ist der schneck auß dem grund auf gezogen/mit allen notwendigen linien drauß […]
SONG: “Sleeping.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Naps Help Infants Form Memories“, Laboratory Equipment, 14 January 2015, as used in the post “Naps make memories […]
This is a little critter known as Carchesium polypinum, less formally a “stalked ciliate,” an organism that forms colonies that look like teensy tinesy trees, […]
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover making up for a late […]
A vision of futures past from NASA’s Glenn Research Center Collection, part of the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. This was what they planned […]
Performing delicate procedures in space: a zero-G haircut for New Year’s. From Italian astronaut @AstroSamantha’s Twitter feed. The process starts here, if you want to […]
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