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 moreAn up-close look at chemoreceptors, chemical-sensing nerves, from the 1950s. Not a flower, nor a machine, but somewhere between both. Found in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Click to embiggen. A smugly skinless man from Bartholomeo Eustachi: Tabulae anatomicae, a series of engravings that were meant to be published in the 1560s, […]
SONG: “The Hardest of Carbon” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Diamond drizzle forecast for Saturn and Jupiter,” Nature, […]
A plate of geometrically arranged capensis moths, as recorded by Pieter Cramer, a fabric merchant and butterfly fan. The whole book is charming. From the […]
A Holocentrus hastatum, or Sargocentron hastatus, or red soldier fish. They have big spines, you see. This one comes from A Natural History of Fish, […]
Why is this brain area important? I have no words. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
A plate from the American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19, “French Figure Sculpture on Some Early Spanish Churches.” Photographed from below a deep basement. That’s […]
SONG: “Better Man” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior,” Scientific American, 27 […]
The Beetle (ASIC) is a chip designed for the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator designed to recreate the Big Bang. It’s part of […]
This is the second stage of the Saturn V rocket – where liquid hydrogen and smoked salmon liquid oxygen were combined to make fuel and […]
This is a buckyball crystal, a form of carbon that no one had ever seen until the 1980s. Now, it’s starting to get used in […]
Found on Archive.org’s collection of Fieldiana. A “catafalque” is a kind of dais on which a coffin rests when it’s on display, as for a […]
This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010. The bottom half […]
SONG: “Regenerative Medicine” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Decellularized Mouse Heart Beats Again After Regenerating With Human Heart […]
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight. From Wikimedia Commons.
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