Science Art: X-15 Pilots Clown Around, 1966
Click to embiggen From NASA’s fashion pages on Flickr.
Science Art
Science Art: Resplendent Trogon, J.G. Wood’s Illustrated Natural History 1898
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. […]
Science Art: The Geologic Time Spiral, by Joseph Graham, William Newman, and John Stacy.
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 […]
Science Art: Merman (Vir marinus episcopi specie), 1696
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 […]
Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder
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 […]
Science Art: Hydrogen Density Plots, by PoorLeno
Click to embiggen The way we grew up thinking about atoms – like teeny tiny solar systems with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around […]
Science Art: IMAGE_7222, EarthKAM Spring 2010 Mission.
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 […]
Science Art: Shovel-fish & spoonbill sturgeon by the Brothers Dalziel
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 […]
Science Art: Bell X-1A In Flight (aviation anniversary tribute 2)
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 […]
Science Art: Wellman’s Airship America (aviation anniversary tribute 1)
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 […]
Etsy partners with NASA. Gives away prizes.
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 […]
Science Art: Ocean plate, large, Andy Lowry
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 […]
Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.
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, […]
Science Art: 5 of Wands – Fusion, by Janelle Schneider (from Science Tarot).
I’m a tarot enthusiast. I take the same approach to the cards as do the folks behind this deck – as a good way to […]
Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)
Image from PHIL, the Public Health Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control. It’s an old-fashioned fridge, as recommended by the Minnesota Board of […]