SONG: Back to the Printer
SONG:“Back to the Printer” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “MIT and Harvard’s 3D-Printed Inchworm Robot Can Assemble Itself,” […]
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Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
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Science Art: Mei yi ge fei jie he bing ren…(Consumptive Disease), 1953.
A medical poster about pulmonary disease. I can’t read all the writing under it (other than “yi” ((one)) and “ren” ((person))), but after the cold […]
Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.
“Genre de mollusques gastropodes, renfermant des animaux nus, de touts les mers.” A popular genre of gastropods. Also the name of a boat (a dory, […]
SONG: Aeronaut, Come.
SONG: “Aeronaut, Come” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story […]
Science Art: “Star Wounds” of the Earth, 400 million years, 1998 stamp, Ukraine
Par avion? [Image via Wikimedia Commons]
Science Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo
Click to embiggen slightly The robot is in trouble! We’ll have to help the robot breathe! This educational illustration comes from the National Institutes of […]
Science Art: The periodical cicada (”Magicicada septendecim”), Plate 7, from Insects, their way and means of living, by R. E. Snodgrass.
Click to embiggen It’s the year of magic. Or, well, the Magicicada septendecim – the 17-year magic cicada. Have you heard? They come back every […]
Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova
This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what […]
Science Art: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art
These are probably the world’s largest petroglyphs. They’re ancient rock carvings that we can see from space. You can’t make out the funky checkerboards, or […]
Science Art: Plate VI, from Monograph on the Aye-aye, by Richard Owen, 1863
In 1863, naturalist Richard Owen published 72 pages of joy. Is it related to the lemur? Aye. Does it climb through the jungle at night? […]
Science Art: Plate 2527 Guarda (a mechanism for protecting airships), by Charles A.A. Dellschau, 1912.
Click to embiggen This may be an important historical record of the early days of aeronautics, or it may be a vivid fantasy by a […]
SONG: “So Heavy”
SONG: “So Heavy” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet,” […]
Science Art: Frutti di Mare, by W.F. Phillips, 1974.
Click to embiggen I couldn’t resist this when I saw the name of the book it came from: Italian Food, by Elizabeth David. It’s an […]
Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl
Click to embiggen This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is […]
Science Art: Indian Gharial by Wilhelm Eigener, 1958
Click to embiggen A sub-continental crocodilian, found on that good ol’ Scientific Illustration tumblog. It was painted by Wilhelm Eigener, one of Germany’s most sought-after […]