SONG: “Rosetta”
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, […]
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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: Excerpt from The Arabic Machine Manuscript.
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 […]
Science Art: The Common Angler (Lophius piscatorus) (After W. Von Wright in Smitt), 1905.
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 […]
Science Art: Stephenson’s Patent, 1850.
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 […]
Science Art: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine…, 1873.
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”
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 […]
Science Art: Figure Showing Anterior Ethmoidal Artery, 2013.
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 […]
Science Art: Two hundred bones form the framework of your body, 1958.
Click to embiggen Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design. [via]
Science Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.
This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat. No, he […]
Science Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it: This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was […]
SONG: “Colonies”
SONG: “Colonies.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature, 2 Jun 2014, […]
Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller
Click to embiggen I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking […]
Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]
Click to embiggen Look! Look at all the birds! I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about […]
Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.
Click to embiggen From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28. It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of […]
Science Art: Compound flower with pollen no scale bar, by Philippa Uwins
Click to embiggen Here, have a flower. Up close. Colored in photoshop. Found in the Wikimedia Commons.