Fish, in families. Fish, in schools. These are all ray-finned fishes, on a chart showing how they became more diverse from the Devonian period (when […]
These are the feet of prehistoric humans – little feet of children, big feet of adults. Actually, it’s an infographic based on a photograph based […]
Click to embiggen This is a cartoon – a *funny* cartoon from about a hundred years before smartphones became a thing. We knew what they […]
I’m not sure exactly what this is a map of (other than Glen Tilt, Tayside), because there’s not much information on the USGS page where […]
Click to embiggen Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter. This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you […]
A geometry of the heavens (specifically the moons of Jupiter and Saturn0, as envisioned by mathematician, astronomer, and mapmaker Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, a German who […]
This is the filament of a headlight – a halogen bulb you put in the front end of your car, one of these – as […]
A map of the planet Mars by astronomer Richard A. Proctor. The names we use for features on Mars nowadays come from Giovanni Schiaparelli – […]
Click to embiggen Here’s astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. as snapped by mission commander L. Gordon Cooper Jr., the “Gordo” from The Right Stuff, if you […]
Click to play One of the more interesting trends in scientific illustration lately – and I do think that it’s exactly the same kind of […]
Our first ticket off this rock. Saturn F-1 Engine is tested at the Marshall Center in 1964. Image credit: NASA/MSFC
Two rays and a shark… and an egg case… from Buffon’s Natural History of the globe, and of man; beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects, […]
Click to embiggen vastly Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will […]
Click to embiggen It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery. This is […]
Click to embiggen vastly This is a mural at the Smithsonian Museum, showing how the Great Plains would have looked about 3 million years ago. […]
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