Click to embiggen Image from Wikimedia Commons, showing the winter solstice (for the northern hemisphere) at noon in the Central European time zone. Labeled in […]
From Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat by Alvin Davison, Ph.D., 1927. Found on archive.org.
Click to embiggen From NASA’s fashion pages on Flickr.
Click to embiggen This is the resplendent trogon, a Mexican bird known formally, nowadays, as Pharomachrus mocinno, and once upon a time as Trogon resplendens. […]
History doesn’t repeat in circles. It makes a spiral. Found via keepyourpebbles, from the US Geological Survey (at which you can read more about the […]
Click to embiggen I’ll just quote the Wikimedia Commons text on this one. It tells a better story than I could. A relatively benign merman […]
Click to embiggen slightly This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be […]
Click to embiggen The way we grew up thinking about atoms – like teeny tiny solar systems with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around […]
Click to embiggen This is what a chunk of Northwest Australia looks like from the International Space Station. It was created as part of the […]
Click to embiggen This is a pile of unusual fish from The illustrated natural history, vol. 3, by John George Wood, London, circa 1863. The […]
On October 14, 1947, “stick and rudder man” Chuck Yeager proved that you didn’t dissolve, explode or travel through time if you went faster than […]
On October 18, 1910, a team of… well, what would we call them? They take machines and go through the air like birds, so let’s […]
You’ve been reading these updates for some time, so of course you know of my deep and profound love for bringing scientific research and homemade […]
Etsy crafter Andy Lowry, who sells under the “why girls go astray” shingle, created this delightful decoupage plate (that you eat from) using delightful Haeckel […]
Click to embiggen slightly This is Geosaurus, recently outed in the pages of Discovery News as “the T. Rex of the deep”: What’s more, metriorhynchids, […]
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