Thanksgiving Theremin: Theremin and Synths (Improvisation) by Carolina Eyck and Marius Leicht
Straight into the hearts of space with this one.
Hope your Thanksgiving weekend (if you’re celebrating) is, like, totally cosmic.
Science Art
Science Art: New invented Machine, for deepning and cleansing Docks, &c., 1775.
In 1775, Pennsylvania Magazine wanted its readers to be up to date on the very latest in technological advances, including this machine for… well, it seems to be … Read the rest “Science Art: New invented Machine, for deepning and cleansing Docks, &c., 1775.”
Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York
Welcome to Wellcome.
They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more marvelous experimental… Read the rest “Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York”
Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.
Three idols, from the Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, published between 1892 and 1910.
I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which is usually full of … Read the rest “Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.”
Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.
The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according… Read the rest “Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.”
Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.
Behold the West.
This is the frontispiece to a scientific report, the Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto – … Read the rest “Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.”
Science Art: Pluto as seen by New Horizons
A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA.
Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
Science Art: Five of Spades, from Playing Cards: Engineering
This is one of a whole deck of… well, they’re practically a technological tarot, really. They’re playing cards illustrating concepts in engineering. (The two of diamonds… Read the rest “Science Art: Five of Spades, from Playing Cards: Engineering”
Science Art: Red White Blood Cells, by NCI-Frederick.
The one carries oxygen around, the other keeps the system clean. They’re teeny tiny.
Image from the Electron Microscopy Facility at The National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-Frederick).… Read the rest “Science Art: Red White Blood Cells, by NCI-Frederick.”
Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo.
I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such wide, flat spaces (wider and flatter even than… Read the rest “Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.”
Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.
This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a place to see marine creatures. Before… Read the rest “Science Art: Aequorea Forbesiana by Philip Henry Gosse.”
Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.
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From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort of.
Ralston does say it’s… Read the rest “Science Art: A tightly wrapped trefoil knot, identified as the second member of the glueball spectrum, 2003.”
Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain
These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… except when…… Read the rest “Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain”
Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.
… Read the rest “Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings by LORRI, 2007.”The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance of 7.1 million kilometers