This NASA snapshot was found in the archive.org copy of Charles Bourland and Gregory Vogt’s The Astronaut’s Cookbook, Springer Science+Business Publications, 2010. The bottom half […]
In which the dissector becomes the dissected as well, sternum reaching upward like a bird’s wings in flight. From Wikimedia Commons.
A 17th-century guide to leg surgery. Unfortunately, my Latin’s not what it could be, so I can’t tell exactly what Dr. Joannis Sculteti is recommending […]
People seem to like caissons (pressurized chambers used to build foundations underwater), or so my search referrals tell me. Well, here’s what working in a […]
From “Collection 476, 1re série” collector cards showing the history of ballooning. They were printed in France sometime before 1900. The Montgolfier Brothers flew their […]
In the 11th century, this was the pinnacle of medical knowledge – a book called Kitab fi al-adwiyah al-mufradah compiled by an Andalusian scholar Abu […]
A striking gaze from Engravings of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Illustrating the First Volume of the Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, […]
An animated GIF (if it’s not moving for you, click the link) showing what it looks like if you’re looking at a black hole when […]
Awww – is a teeny tiny tinamou! It’s from this 1868 issue of Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London found in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
That’s a dryosaurus being hunted. Not a dysalotosaurus. Probably…. Photo from
That scratch going up the left half of the picture might look like an accidental blemish, but it’s actually the first trace of a positron […]
Image originally from Suggestions to the keepers of the U.S. life-saving stations, light-houses, and light-ships; and to other observers, relative to the best means of […]
Click to embiggen This is one way we might visit that rosy Saturn hurricane from last week. It’s VASIMR, a rocket engine that uses plasma […]
This is not actually a flower. It’s a giant hurricane – Saturn’s answer to Jupiter’s Big Red Spot. From the NASA Image of the Day […]
A medical poster about pulmonary disease. I can’t read all the writing under it (other than “yi” ((one)) and “ren” ((person))), but after the cold […]
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