The American Museum of Natural History revisits “Cosmic Zoom”, starting at the Himalayas and moving outward (and, as far as we can see, backwards in time – through older… Read the rest “Science Art: The Known Universe by AMNH”
Behold a crepuscular rodent. In this case, I suppose, a fractional crepuscular rodent. (That means they like going out at dusk and dawn… creatures of what photographers call “the… Read the rest “Science Art: Chinchilla, Webster’s New International Dictionary, 1911”
This is custom glass art from the laboratory of Sasha Shulgin, the chemist who gave us MDMA and a host of other psychoactive compounds.
It’s for sale right now as part of a fundraiser… Read the rest “Science Art: (MAPS fundraiser) “Candy Dish” Psychedelic Synthesis Lab Art Glassware”
The mantis shrimp, Stomatopoda, is one of the most terrifying sea creatures under three feet long. At least to me. They move exceptionally fast and have lots of spiky, sharp parts that are… Read the rest “Science Art: Mantis Shrimp by R.A. Lydekker.”
Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. It’s part of their project called HiRISE in which they’re taking photographs of Mars. High Resolution… Read the rest “Science Art: Light-Toned Deposits in Noctis Labyrinthus (ESP_014353_1685)”
This is a different way of looking at planet Earth. It’s an image from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. The sliver of land you see on that crescent is the South… Read the rest “Science Art: First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home”
This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of Steam. (Then, as now, Pluto didn’t make the planetary… Read the rest “Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.”
The Onion reveals where science comes from.
We *knew* it, didn’t we?
The Norden Bombsight, from the Bombardier’s Information File (BIF) describing the components and controls.
If you’ve read Slaughterhouse 5 or seen the… Read the rest “Science Art: Nomenclature and Operation (Norden Bombsight, Mar 1945)”
Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist knows, when a fluid moves around an… Read the rest “Science Art: Von Karman Vortices”
The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top.
There’s something totemic about it, I think… King Bird looking over his food subjects.… Read the rest “Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok”
There’s been a bit of news recently about the discovery of a large number of glowing mushroom species in various corners of the world. This image is not one … Read the rest “Science Art: Phallus drewesii, by Brian Perry.”
This is what 100,000 stars look like. They’re just a fraction of the 10 million stars in the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri, where the stars are packed so… Read the rest “Science Art: Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri”
Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, in the years before … Read the rest “Science Art: $2 Silver Certificate, 1896 (Science Presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture.)”
This is the flying lemur, or colugo, also known as the order Dermoptera – the “skin-wings.” They’re related to shrews and bats moreso than real lemurs, which … Read the rest “Science Art: Flying Lemur, Webster’s New International, 1911.”
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