SONG: Army Ants (penitential Tom Waits cover)
SONG: “Army Ants”, originally by Tom Waits (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by Tom Waits. SOURCE: This is another penitential […]
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…
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Return of the Supercollider
The SpaceMarauder blog is looking forward to some singular explosions down here on Earth, thanks to the news that the Large Hadron Collider is back […]
Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the […]
Clear typefaces make life easier.
SciAm clears up a secret of success that font-freaks already know instinctively. If we’re really going to get things done, you’ve got to tell it […]
The Vertical Farm
I was reading about urban farming lately – growing food in places where normally you’d see multilevel parking garages take root – when a page […]
Snowballs and Killer Whales
Researchers studying the McMurdo Sound killer whales may have started something among the orcas: LiveScience, via Yahoo:One of the whales, probably an adult female, was […]
The Power of a Butterfly’s Wing
Scientists in China and Japan have come up with a new system for getting power from the sun… by building solar panels like butterfly wings: […]
Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void. You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
SONG: Iguana Rosada
SONG: “Iguana Rosada” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Rare, Storied Pink Iguana Discovered”, Popular Science, 5 Jan 2009, as used […]
Science Art: Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium.
Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium: From the video library at Science Hack, where this hypnotic sequence is described as: “A 16-mm movie made in the […]
Help us speak science.
Nature’s Nascent blog has a call for volunteers to help evaluate abstracts and comments on PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science: I agree with […]
Outchimped… with affection.
The Monkey Wire (no, really) is jumping with news of a study that shows chimpanzee babies are smarter than humans: Daily Express Professor Kim Bard, […]
National Science Foundation: Smut haven.
SciAm blows the lid off some questionable activity in America’s science administration that wasn’t really related to research: Among the IG’s findings: “Six cases of […]
Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492
Click to embiggen. From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University. Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in […]
Dreams of sex and horror.
LiveScience pulls the cover back on another battle of the sexes with a study that shows men and women dream differently: Parker corroborated participants’ dreams […]