Science Art: Allosaurus, by Charles R. Knight
Click to embiggen Charles R. Knight is a scientific illustrator more people need to know about. A paleoartist, even. He brought dinosaurs (and other things) […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience 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 moreFuture: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008: There is still a lot we do not know […]
Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International
A desert-dwelling fox of North Africa. For Foxing Day. From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, […]
Cell Phone Blood Scanner
Bet your iPhone can’t do this…. UCLA scientists have found a way to rig an ordinary cell phone, an LED, a light filter and some […]
Future By Colani.
Here, something pretty for your Yule: How Luigi Colani designed the future. A Colani-designed semi-trailer. From steam trains to flying boats. Spacecraft like ginger flowers […]
SONG: Isopods In My Aquarium.
SONG: “Isopods In My Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Antarctica Has More Species than Galapagos”, LiveScience, 2 Dec 2008, […]
Smart Soldiers Die First.
Sounds grim, but New Scientist says it’s true. The more intelligent soldiers were the most likely to die in combat: The unprecedented demands of the […]
Science Art: Nicotiana alata upper leaf surface, showing tricomes and stomates.
Click to embiggen vastly This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing. From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Electric Plonk.
New Scientist gives us a recipe for converting cheap wine to the good stuff: It is backed by a decade of research, the results have […]
Flying Lasers.
We’re one step closer to living in a Flash Gordon serial, New Scientist reports, as engineers prepare to unleash a brilliant barrage of airborne death […]
A 2,000-Year-Old Brain
Archaeologists found a surprise inside the severed skull of a man who lived in Britain before the Romans came. As PhysOrg reports, it had Britain’s […]
Herpes and Alzheimer’s
Science Daily reveals the role the plucky, pesky herpes virus plays in the dreadful progress of Alzheimer’s disease – and how a cold sore cure […]
Mutant Amish Superhearts.
Yes, maybe these simple farm folk *do* have better hearts than the rest of us. That’s what the BBC seems to be saying about new […]
Science Art: “Bacteria” The New Students Reference Work
Some organic geometry from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user […]
Life On Ice.
Antarctica, LiveScience reveals, isn’t the wasteland it appears. In fact, it has more species than the Galapagos Islands: A team of 23 scientists from five […]