Performing delicate procedures in space: a zero-G haircut for New Year’s. From Italian astronaut @AstroSamantha’s Twitter feed. The process starts here, if you want to […]
Click to embiggen From Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, edited by Edward Step, found in the BioDiversity Library. This […]
Click to embiggen In 1984, astronauts had to ride out in the Space Shuttle Discovery to retrieve two broken-down satellites, and decided to have a […]
Click to embiggen Making the invisible visible – the air over the South Pole, Australia, Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town and beyond. From General Meteorology […]
This is how the the gooey inside becomes the crusty outside… oozing up from rifts.
Click to embiggen My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all […]
Click to embiggen It looks like a wrought-iron finial for a curtain rod. It’s actually a demonstration of how electrons can be used as a […]
Click to embiggen This is a strange bug from PHIL, the CDC’s Public Health Image Library. Not the kind of bug the CDC usually deals […]
Click to embiggen vastly Quoting here from Oudemans’ book: In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the […]
How the submarine goes. Found on Wikimedia Commons.
This is a celestial event recorded beautifully in E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, the “Picture-Atlas of the Star-World”. I’m not sure, but I think that’s […]
Click to embiggen slightly A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, […]
Click to embiggen An image from Rockets and Satellites Work Like This, as found on the marvelous Dreams of Space blog. It’s a children’s book […]
Click to embiggen This is from a government report – from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA – on L’Oiseau Blanc, […]
Click to embiggen They itch. They dig in and they itch. These are the mites that cause scabies, the tiny tunnelers, burrowing into the skin […]
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