This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read o…
Read moreFifty-two breeds of chickens!
This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Bo…
Read moreThis is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, …
Read moreAn image of a cell, a neoplasm, from the National Institute of Health’s National Library of Medicine, the “Imag…
Read moreBiomechanics, with acrobats. A photo illustration by Karel Frydrýšek.
The description, translated from Czec…
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From Theatro del mvndo, y del tiempo, which I’ve mentioned here before but have accessed yonder, on archive.org.
This is a chart of the human hand used as a measuring instrument for… Read the rest “Science Art: ORDEN DE LOS SIGNOS DEL ZODIACO, 1614.”
Science News reports on a colorful breakthrough in dinosaur hunting, thanks to two lichen species that prefer to grow on dinosaur bones and are a shade of orange that’s bright enough… Read the rest “Bright lichens reveal dino bones”
Science News reports on medical doctor and stem cell biologist Takanori Takebe’s quest to build a back-door alternative to invasive, awkward ventilator machines for pneumonia… Read the rest “Butt breathing for when lungs fail”
Here’s a space station from before the first rocket left Earth’s atmosphere.
The description from DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) Hub, where I … Read the rest “Science Art: Noordung’s Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929”
Caroline Scruggs enthusiastically shares her five favorite theremins for beginners.
Look for the theremin at 1:54… if you dare!
These are English moths, of the geni Rhodophaea, Oncocera, Aphomia, Galleria, Melliphora, Halias and Sarrothripa. Each species in this book has a description like:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate LXXXI from A natural history of British moths, 1872.”The situations where
It is now vanishingly unlikely there will be a song here for November. December will have to have a penitential cover.
Science Alert reports on the latest superpower to be replicated in the lab with a UC San Diego team producing xanthommatin, the pigment chemical responsible for octopus’ amazing… Read the rest “Octopus color-changing pigment is recreated.”
This is an ad from the back cover of Science Gossip magazine, a publication which I discovered via Nemfrog. These “hot-air motors” were made by “JOHN J. GRIFFIN &… Read the rest “Science Art: New Patent Hot Air Motors…, 1894”
Knowable Magazine reports on a new use for remote-controlled drones — to collect DNA samples from whales blowing mucus out their blowholes, and to simply spy on whales from above… Read the rest “Snot drones for whale science”
When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was “redrawn from Schwarz-Karsten, modified from original… Read the rest “Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942”
Live Science goes into the brimstone of the underworld — a sulfuric cave literally named “Sulfur Cave” — on the border of Greece and Albania, and finds —… Read the rest “A cave full of 111,000 spiders in the dark.”
CTV News has an item from University of British Columbia researchers who have found an alternative to Port-a-Potties and camp toilets that doesn’t need all the maintenance, doesn’t… Read the rest “A toilet powered by mushrooms”
This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and are getting less so. (A Florida… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher”
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