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Science Art: Momma Oryctrodromeus stays in the burrow with her babies…., by Julio Lacerda

7 January 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen I found this on the Scientific Illustration tumblr, and though it seems to have been used in an Earth Archives article with […]

Science Art: Callorynchus antarctica, 1858.

31 December 2017 grant 0

An image that introduces Fishes and fishing : artificial breeding of fish, anatomy of their senses, their loves, passions, and intellects. With illustrative facts by […]

Science Art: Apollo 8 Earthrise, Christmas Eve 1968

24 December 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” –Commander Frank Borman, Apollo […]

Science Art: Field Rheostats, 1907

17 December 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Not “field” as in “field recording,” but “field” as in “magnetic field.” These are from a chapter on direct-current dynamos in E. […]

Science Art: Red laser through irregular glass mj1, by Mariojan Photo, 2007

10 December 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly A red laser pointer. A chunk of “bad” glass. A blank wall. And here, a remarkable thing. From the Wikimedia Commons […]

Science Art: The Great Telescope, Melbourne Observatory

3 December 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Look up! I’m not sure exactly what the story is behind this image, because it’s part of the bewildering-but-great (and partially mechanically […]

Science Art: De XII Afbeelding (Banana) by Maria Sibylla Merian

26 November 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen At the end of the 17th century, this was some weird and wild stuff – a fruit that in the Americas, they […]

Science Art: Jupiter: A New Point of View, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran

19 November 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen This is a sidelong look at the king of planets from NASA’s Image of the Day gallery. The NASA folks say: This […]

Science Art: Representations of the Braid Groups by Nancy Scherich, overall winner, Dance Your Ph.D. 2017.

12 November 2017 grant 0

“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.” So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is […]

Science Art: Ordo Fecundus (Steinfurz und Flidermaus), 1553

5 November 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen slightly An owl and a bat, in German and Latin, as presented by Conrad Gessner in Icones Animalium Quadruped Viviparorum et Oviparorum. […]

Science Art: When (Neutron) Stars Collide, by NASA

30 October 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen There’s not much information on the NASA Image of the Day site explaining how this visualization was made. It’s meant to show […]

Science Art: Matsaki Polychrome Bowls of Shape 2, from The Excavation of Hawikuh, 1966.

22 October 2017 grant 0

Pottery charts are cool. This expedition report is full of ’em.

Science Art: Plate C from The rotifera; or, Wheel-animalcules, both British and foreign, 1889

14 October 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Teeny tiny critters, hanging out in the water. They’ve got cilia in a circle, waving around their tops as if they were […]

Science Art: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, by Landsat 8

9 October 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly The USGS Earth Explorer program shared these before-and-after pictures of Puerto Rico. The main difference that’s visible from the Landsat 8 […]

Science Art: Puer Capite Elephantino…. from Gaspar Schott, 1662.

1 October 2017 grant 0

I was going to post something else here, but then I saw this on nemfrog this morning and had to share. It’s the Elephant-Headed Boy […]

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