Click to embiggen It’s not a flying fish, but something called a “sapphirine gurnard,” which is unusual not because it flies, but because it walks […]
Click to embiggen Sure, I listen to an episode of Omnibus! here and there, and the latest was on the oddly half-forgotten project that was […]
Click to embiggen vastly A beetle of character. From Wikimedia Commons.
Click to embiggen From the Linda Hall Library “Scientist of the Day” entry on Henry Fairfield Osborn: Osborn named and described some of the most […]
Click to embiggen From the Smithsonian Institutes’ National Air and Space Museum “Eyewitness to Space” collection, paintings from the years when NASA had fine artists […]
Click to embiggen vastly If it looks like a miniature sun, maybe that’s because on one level it is – it’s creating plasma, which surrounds […]
Click to embiggen slightly Galileo drew pictures of the moon – pictures that included imperfections on the surface. The moon, he observed, had texture. Hills […]
Click to embiggen These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds […]
Click to embiggen Three kinds of squid-kids (I think; at least one is identified as a juvenile), from the research expedition of the Norwegian steamer […]
Click to embiggen It’s funny, see? See? This cartoon appeared in Resonance between an article called “Genetics to Genetic Algorithms: Solution to Optimisation Problems Using […]
Click to embiggen I’m not sure if this really is a scientific illustration, but I think, given the time, it counts as natural history. This […]
Click to embiggen The Age of Exploration included at least a little bit of schoolwork. Here are navigation students learning the ways of current and […]
Click to embiggen An image of the summer sky (in the Northern Hemisphere) by William Peck, F.R.A.S., from his book, The constellations and how to […]
Click to embiggen Roy Gjerston was an artist who designed stamps for the US Postal Service and spaceship concept art for General Dynamics. So this […]
Click to embiggen This is an image of an image of the heart – or at least an image of heart imaging. An echocardiogram done […]
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