Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreScience Art: Opportunity at Concepcion Crater.
This image was ganked mercilessly from the brilliant Road to Endeavour blog. That celebration of the Mars rovers is put together by the same person […]
Last chance to see.
On 4:39 Sunday morning, go out and turn to face Cape Canaveral. It’s your last chance to ever see a space shuttle launch. Last. Chance. […]
Ships on Titan.
Well, this is a news item from before this week’s NASA budget came out. Think of it as a kind of desperate inspiration, perhaps, from […]
Hydrogen: a different perspective.
Yeah, so I kind of really want this poster now.
Running barefoot.
ScienceDaily keeps up with the latest research into the health benefits of running without shoes: [S]ays Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at […]
SONG: A Tiny Golden Mean
SONG: “A Tiny Golden Mean” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World: Hidden Symmetry Observed for […]
Grant B on Pocket: Remixing Danny Seim
This is not explicitly a song about science (although it’s getting harder and harder for me to draw that line), but I’ve got a remix […]
Extinct bird alive and well.
That, according to the Telegraph, is the good news. The bad news is that it’s in war-torn Afghanistan: The birds were then spotted again in […]
Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia
Click to embiggen vastly This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake […]
A moment of silence for NASA?
ScienceBlogs (and the Orlando Sentinel) are not sounding very pleased about Obama’s proposed budget for NASA: As a final frying pan upside the head, you […]
A GoST steampunk cameo.
I’ve just received word that the Guild of Scientific Troubadours has a brief walk-in part in the latest novel being drafted by this fine author. […]
A moment of silence for Spirit.
The Mars rover has been officially abandoned. The Tech Herald: However, although the Mars rover has now been written off in terms of fulfilling its […]
Once, we were endangered.
SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas: [A]ccording to scientists […]
Frame the deviance.
Neurologists get Sonic Youth. That’s what I think after reading Jonah Lehrer’s ScienceBlogs entry about the way music works in the brain: The experiment was […]