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 from a government report – from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA – on L’Oiseau Blanc, […]
SONG: “Could You Tell Me Your Name?” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on“Anxiety and sleeping pills ‘linked to dementia’”, BBC News, 9 September 2014, as used […]
Click to embiggen They itch. They dig in and they itch. These are the mites that cause scabies, the tiny tunnelers, burrowing into the skin […]
Click to embiggen Take a deep breath. This is the inside of your lung, seen really closely. At the time his was drawn, we weren’t […]
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of […]
Click to embiggen vastly. This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources […]
A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s. [via scientificillustration.tumblr.com]
SONG: “Rosetta.” (To download: https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/choons/grant-Rosetta2.mp3 ) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “‘We’re in orbit!’ Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit comet”, CNN, 6 Aug 2014, […]
Click to embiggen This mysterious water-driven machine is from a mysterious Arabic manuscript, somewhere between 200 and 500 years old. The whole document is full […]
Click to embiggen This is from the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections in the Biodiversity Library. I bet there’s all *kinds* of things in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous […]
Click to embiggen From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org. The book seems to […]
Click to embiggen Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. […]
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering […]
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here […]
Click to embiggen Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design. [via]
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