SONG: Complicated Man
SONG: “Complicated Man.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New carnivorous harp sponge discovered in deep sea”, Nature, 9 […]
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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: The Hairy Water Tortoise, Scientific American, December 21,1878
Click to embiggen I think I’m happier not knowing exactly what this is illustrating. I mean, I think I can guess, but that’s not nearly […]
Science Art: Diurnal Motion of the Celestial Sphere, from General Astrophysics by Jerzy Stodolkiewicz, 1973
The dome of the heavens, 1970s-style. Found in a very special pdf in archive.org – a book on how we can look out at the […]
Science Art: World’s Weirdest: Seagulls Help Sunfish, National Geographic.
Nothing about sunfish is as striking as watching them move. [via]
Science Art: Aardvark (Kapisches Erdferkel, Orycteropus capensis Gm. S. 147), from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1927
We’ve talked before about Alfred Brehm. These are his aardvarks. Earth-pigs. After “trek,” one of the best-known Afrikaans words to make it into English. Literally, […]
SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. This […]
Science Art: Fig. 2, A detailed view of Earth’s magnetosphere… from Earth Orbital Science, Space in the Seventies by WR Corliss, 1971.
We had big plans then, two years after we’d landed on the Moon. We had to be prepared. found on archive.org (pdf).
SONG: Is There A Light?
SONG: “Is There A Light?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Planet Is Closest Yet: Earth-Size Lava World […]
Science Art: Solar Interstellar Neighborhood, by Andrew Z. Colvin
Click to embiggen. Hi, neighbors. Map found on Wikimedia Commons. It’s part of a larger series showing where we are relative to everything. Everything.
Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick
A prehistoric non-bird, found via Scientific Illustration. (Not to be mistaken for the rather unpleasant crusts on the mouths of fever sufferers.) If there’s something […]
Science Art: Fig. 2 – Slit Mechanism from “The Scattering of Hydrogen Positive Rays, and the Existence of a Powerful Field of Force in the Hydrogen Molecule” by G. Thompson in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Click to embiggen I looked for molecules in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character […]
Science Art: Pneumatische Fundation (Senkkasten Caisson), from Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1889
A caisson is a machine for working under water. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon is a German encyclopedia. Rise, German engineers. Rise. Dive, German engineers. Dive. Image found […]
Science Art: Tardigrade
Click to embiggen Is it cute? It’s a tardigrade, also known as a water bear. That’s a cute name. And they’re tiny, too, which is […]
Science Art: Simplest Mode of Development of Monads and Fungi from the Pellicle, 1871.
A black-and-white birth sequence. From archive.org’s copy of “On Some Heterogenetic Modes of Origin of Flagellated Monads, Fungus-Germs, and Ciliated Infusoria”, by H. Bastian in […]
SONG: Particle
SONG: “Particle.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant (with apologies to Antonio Vivaldi). SOURCE: Based on “How Fungi Create the Amazon’s Clouds”, […]