There’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.)
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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 an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically describe…
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SONG: “My Girlfriend’s a Robot” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally done like this.
SOURCE: This is a penitential… Read the rest “SONG: My Girlfriend’s a Robot (penitential cover)”
SONG: “A Tiny Golden Mean” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything that… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.”
SONG: “Dear Winter” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience… Read the rest “SONG: Dear Winter.”
SONG: “A Strong Enough Lie” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: “Vanished Persian army said found in desert”… Read the rest “SONG: A Strong Enough Lie”
SONG: Let’s Take the Boat Out
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These are the volumes of the hand, Babelfish tells me… although “baender” also means “bands” (like the FM radio band), or ligaments.
Image found in Wikimedia… Read the rest “Science Art: Baender der Hand, Meyers Blitz-Lexikon, 1932”
This is how small they’re making machines nowadays:
Dwarfed by a spider mite. Lubricated by gases.
Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories, SUMMiTTM Technologies, www.mems.sandia.gov
This chart shows the universe as understood in 1660 – a solar system with a giant Earth at its center.
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