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Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller

22 June 2014 grant 0

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I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking leaves that are even tastier. (I … Read the rest “Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller”

Science Art: “Misirlou” on hard and floppy drives, by Argalnath

16 June 2014 grant 0

Argalnath makes music from hard drives and floppy drives. Like a DJ, Argalnath spins.

Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]

15 June 2014 grant 0

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Look! Look at all the birds!

I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about everywhere researchers partner with NASA to do … Read the rest “Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]”

Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.

8 June 2014 grant 0

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From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28.

It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of Australian rock like jam in a sandwich.… Read the rest “Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.”

Science Art: Compound flower with pollen no scale bar, by Philippa Uwins

1 June 2014 grant 0

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Here, have a flower.

Up close. Colored in photoshop.

Found in the Wikimedia Commons.

Science Art: Linear Motor Velocity Detection Apparatus, by James L. Johnson and Harold C. Stephens, 1969

25 May 2014 grant 0

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From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.

Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center

18 May 2014 grant 0

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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 with a sphere living area,” … Read the rest “Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center”

Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.

11 May 2014 grant 0

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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 creation de l’homme, “the… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.”

Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.

27 April 2014 grant 0

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From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all that great stuff… especially signal-to-noise… Read the rest “Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.”

Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel

6 April 2014 grant 0

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This is a galaxy named M83, which is usually a faint smudge in the constellation Hydra. Up close, however, Hubble Space Telescope was able to see that it’s “ablaze… Read the rest “Science Art: Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel”

Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854

30 March 2014 grant 0

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This is the face of the man who was ROBBED by the third episode of Cosmos. Planetary motion? Elliptical orbits? Not Newton’s ideas – this guy’s.

And the story of how he … Read the rest “Science Art: Portrait of John Kepler, 1854”

Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory

23 March 2014 grant 0


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This is an old photograph taken through the largest refracting telescope (no mirrors, just a really big lens) in the world, the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin.

Edwin … Read the rest “Science Art: Nebulae in the Pleiades, by the Yerkes Observatory”

Science Art:Bacterial morphology diagram, by Mariana Ruiz

16 March 2014 grant 0

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It could be the new collection of shower curtains and matching towels at Target. But no – pleasant though they may be to look at, these shapes make us feel bad.

Found on Wikimedia Commons.

Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.

9 March 2014 grant 0

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Gaze into the eye of the bee, and the colony gazes into you. This is not honeycomb, but the individual components (ommatidia) of a bee’s compound eye.

Full credit … Read the rest “Science Art: Surface of a Western honeybee’s eye, by Janice Carr and Connie Flowers.”

Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2 March 2014 grant 0

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A scientific visualization from NASA Goddard’s Scientific Visualization Studio, who have this to say about it:

An X-class solar flare erupted on the left side of the sun on the evening of

… Read the rest “Science Art: An X-class Solar Flare, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center”

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