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SONG: Hyperfocus

24 May 2025 grant 0

SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert… Read the rest “SONG: Hyperfocus”

Our butts used to be sperm dispensers.

25 April 2025 grant 0

Science Alert reports on an evolutionary study that has found our butts (from which everybody, as the children’s book tells us, poops) were originally a little bit more risque. The… Read the rest “Our butts used to be sperm dispensers.”

Scientific illustration of a mudskipper emerging from the water and looking out in air, with diagrams of mudskipper eyeballs and eye positioning.

Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.

31 March 2025 grant 0

This is a mudskipper who is being drawn here solely for the qualities of its bulbous, beautiful eyes.

The illustration is from page 453 of The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation by … Read the rest “Science Art: Periophthalmus koelreuteri, 1942.”

Scientific illustration of good posture versus slouching, with arrows pointing to various areas on the body.

Science Art: Illustrations of poor and good posture, 1943.

8 November 2024 grant 0

This is how the the US Navy tried to get recruits to stand tall during World War II, with anatomical studies of slouching. How do you know if you’re slouching? Well, here’s how,… Read the rest “Science Art: Illustrations of poor and good posture, 1943.”

Scientific illustration of the inner ear, including the cochlea, from Gray's Anatomy.

Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth, from Gray’s Anatomy.

9 June 2024 grant 0

This is the listening part, the twisting bits of the inner ear. It really does look like a mollusk, doesn’t it? (“Cochlea” literally means “snail” in Greek.)… Read the rest “Science Art: Interior of right osseous labyrinth, from Gray’s Anatomy.”

Recording tinnitus as it happens – for art AND science.

9 June 2024 grant 0

Well, if a microphone can act as a speaker (which it can, and vice versa), then why can’t an ear act as a megaphone? It might fly in the face of expectations but The Quietus has an interview… Read the rest “Recording tinnitus as it happens – for art AND science.”

Scientific illustration of a human brain (or perhaps just a maze) as a very simplified informational icon in a 1960s visual style: brown background, black circle, a white bordered maze in brown forming a square inside the circle.

Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.

22 April 2024 grant 0

I think this is a brain, but it might just be a maze. This is a small icon that appears on the lower left corner of the back cover of The Mind, from the LIFE Science Library published by Time-Life… Read the rest “Science Art: Back Cover Detail, THE MIND, 1965.”

Scientific Illustration of human forms using electronic displays, from the 1960s, based on drawings by industrial designer Walter Koch.

Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.

14 April 2024 grant 0

This had to have been meant slightly tongue-in-cheek at the time… hadn’t it? Bespectacled man, meet Vitruvian lady.

The cartoon couple are from an ad in the October 1964 issue… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Factors: Scanning Male and Standing Female, 1964.”

Scientific illustration of an eye exam using an ophthalmoscope.

Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.

10 March 2024 grant 0

You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes.

This is an illustration from a book about birds, oddly enough: The fundus oculi of birds, especially… Read the rest “Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.”

Scientific Illustration depicting how eye-spots draw attention even in a confusing visual field.

Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.

13 November 2023 grant 0

An illustration showing how noticeable an eye actually is, from the text The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation, which looks at eyes, eyes everywhere, all kinds of eyes. The book … Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram illustrating the inherent conspicuousness of an eye-spot…, Cott, 1942.”

Scientific illustration of the arteries leading into the heart, one normal and one abnormal

Science Art: Schematic Drawing Showing (Left) Normal Origin and Distribution of the Coronary Arteries…, 1943.

31 October 2021 grant 0

This diagram came from an article called “Anomalous Origin of Left Coronary Artery” by John C. Ruddock, a Naval Reserve Medical Corps commander, and Charles C. Stehly, a US… Read the rest “Science Art: Schematic Drawing Showing (Left) Normal Origin and Distribution of the Coronary Arteries…, 1943.”

Scientific illustration of bones on the inside, from a CT scan.

Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.

12 September 2021 grant 0

This is a picture of bones, the mineral density of bones, giving us a hint of their interior structures.

From the NIH Image Gallery description:

This image shows micro computed tomograophy

… Read the rest “Science Art: Dlx3 deletion in osteoblast progenitors induce increased trabecular bone formation, 2015.”
Scientific illustration of the nervous system of a new-born dog.

Science Art: Transverse section through the region of Clarke’s column of the thoracic cord of a new-born dog, 1906

25 April 2021 grant 0

This is an image of nerves, the nerves of a dog, a new-born dog.

“Clarke’s column” is also called the posterior thoracic nucleus, a part of the spinal column. The main … Read the rest “Science Art: Transverse section through the region of Clarke’s column of the thoracic cord of a new-born dog, 1906”

Scientific illustration of arterial arches, the blood vessels around the heart that look like a drawing of a heart

Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )

4 April 2021 grant 0

Scientific illustration of arterial arches, the blood vessels around the heart that look like a drawing of a heartClick to embiggen

This is an anatomical drawing of the blood vessels around the heart, but it’s odd to me how much it looks like a simple drawing of a heart, a Valentines heart, with wings.… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )”

Scientific illustration of the Leavitt bulldog, a healthier breed of English bulldog

Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013

21 February 2021 grant 0

Scientific illustration of the Leavitt bulldog, a healthier breed of English bulldog

As most folks know, today’s English bulldog is an animal that has been, as they say, “overbred.” They have beautiful temperaments as a rule, and can barely breathe, … Read the rest “Science Art: Leavitt Bulldog body diagram, 2013”

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