This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreThere’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreI found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
Read moreThis is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”
But th…
Read moreThis is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wiki…
Read moreThis is the resplendent trogon, a Mexican bird known formally, nowadays, as Pharomachrus mocinno, and once upon a time as Trogon resplendens. In other words, it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Resplendent Trogon, J.G. Wood’s Illustrated Natural History 1898”
History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral.
Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the concept.)
SONG: “Beyond the Ends of the Earth”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “100 Year Starship: Nasa’s … Read the rest “SONG: Beyond the Ends of the Earth”
I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696”A relatively benign merman complete with scales caught in the Baltic
This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be hollow – possibly… Read the rest “Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder”
The way we grew up thinking about atoms – like teeny tiny solar systems with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around a sun – is wrong. They move in clouds… Read the rest “Science Art: Hydrogen Density Plots, by PoorLeno”
This is what a chunk of Northwest Australia looks like from the International Space Station.
It was created as part of the EarthKAM project, “Earth Knowledge Acquired… Read the rest “Science Art: IMAGE_7222, EarthKAM Spring 2010 Mission.”
This is a pile of unusual fish from The illustrated natural history, vol. 3, by John George Wood, London, circa 1863. The Brothers Dalziel were the most celebrated (perhaps)… Read the rest “Science Art: Shovel-fish & spoonbill sturgeon by the Brothers Dalziel”
SONG: “Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “36… Read the rest “SONG: Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)”
On October 14, 1947, “stick and rudder man” Chuck Yeager proved that you didn’t dissolve, explode or travel through time if you went faster than the speed of sound. He… Read the rest “Science Art: Bell X-1A In Flight (aviation anniversary tribute 2)”
On October 18, 1910, a team of… well, what would we call them? They take machines and go through the air like birds, so let’s call them aviators. A team of aviators made the first… Read the rest “Science Art: Wellman’s Airship America (aviation anniversary tribute 1)”
SONG: “Run Straight Down” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Warren Zevon.
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover.… Read the rest “SONG: Run Straight Down (penitential Warren Zevon cover)”
Etsy crafter Andy Lowry, who sells under the “why girls go astray” shingle, created this delightful decoupage plate (that you eat from) using delightful Haeckel plates (that… Read the rest “Science Art: Ocean plate, large, Andy Lowry”
This is Geosaurus, recently outed in the pages of Discovery News as “the T. Rex of the deep”:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.”What’s more, metriorhynchids, the extinct relatives
I’m a tarot enthusiast. I take the same approach to the cards as do the folks behind this deck – as a good way to create meaningful stories about your life (which is a good way to … Read the rest “Science Art: 5 of Wands – Fusion, by Janelle Schneider (from Science Tarot).”
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