Click to embiggen This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley […]
Click to embiggen From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description: This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray […]
Click to embiggen Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage […]
Click to embiggen In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images. I found this […]
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney. Ah, tradition. Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a […]
This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re […]
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s. An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an […]
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using […]
Click to embiggen Though it looks like postmodern architecture (Eero Saarinen, maybe?), this is actually inside your salad. It’s a helical granum of a thylakoid […]
Click to embiggen It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice […]
Click to embiggen Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space. From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future […]
Click to embiggen Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks […]
Embryonic television. I like how this device has an almost Lovecraftian vibe, as if sending moving pictures was a thing that involved mystical processes. What’s […]
Click to embiggen What’s inside a Ukranian volcano. Or most volcanoes, wherever the are. From a Ukranian encyclopedia for Ukrainian miners (ISBN 966-7804-14-3).
Click to embiggen Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are. I like that there’s a […]
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