Click to embiggen This is from the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections in the Biodiversity Library. I bet there’s all *kinds* of things in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous […]
Click to embiggen From The Principles and Practice and Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines in Operation, found on archive.org. The book seems to […]
Click to embiggen Translation: The Englishman Watt wanted to make a steam engine. He spent so much time on it that he upset his aunt. […]
Ever feel congested? Here’s where it happens – the paranasal sinuses. These ones are under your eyes. And the artery we’re specifically looking at here […]
Click to embiggen Tennis, a different perspective. From All About the Human Body, 1958, found in the reference library of Newhouse Design. [via]
This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat. No, he […]
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it: This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was […]
Click to embiggen I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking […]
Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.
Click to embiggen Look! Look at all the birds! I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about […]
Click to embiggen From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28. It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of […]
Click to embiggen Here, have a flower. Up close. Colored in photoshop. Found in the Wikimedia Commons.
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design […]
Click to embiggen This eerie vision of an alien, ancient world greeted those who opened the front cover of W.F.A. Zimmerman’s Le monde avant la […]
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