January 25, 2012
Lion’s Mane jellyfish
via El Ultimo Grito
January 23, 2012
January 19, 2012
This is an actual project at the University of Aberdeen. The graphics are incredible.
January 19, 2012
via Paleofuture
“Now that atomic energy is coming, we have asked artist James B. Settles to picture for us one of the developments in amusement to which it might be put. He surprised us with this huge rolling cross-country pleasure ball.
With atomic energy, it has been postulated that man will have many leisure hours that he never had before. He will have most of the day to pursue as he pleases, either for pleasure, or in pursuit of a hobby, or in art, or in just plain being lazy.”
February 1946 issue of Amazing Stories
January 19, 2012
Parasite Anatomy.
German wallchart by Jung, Koch & Quentrell.
Found here.
January 3, 2012
Lifecycles
Lovely open-source ebook by Manvir Singh about the life cycles of various creatures.
free download on archive.org
December 8, 2011
Consider the kiwi. Arrived at by traditional selective breeding of the Chinese gooseberry and marketed aggressively by New Zealanders, it has become popular worldwide. Yet, as Israeli plant scientist Jonathan Gressel points out, “If the kiwi fruit had been genetically engineered, it would not be on our tables. A very small proportion of the population develops severe allergies to kiwi fruit with a wide range of symptoms, from localized oral allergy syndrome to life-threatening anaphylaxis, which can occur within minutes after eating the fruit.” (Peanuts, shellfish, wheat, dairy products, and other common foods also cause allergies; they—and the kiwi—could some day be made nonallergenic with genetic engineering, and should be. A nonallergenic GE peanut is already being developed at the University of Georgia.)
— Stewart Brand in the annotated Whole Earth Discipline, chapter 5 - Green Genes
December 4, 2011
Diamonds from the Arkansas mine - Natural size. Pike County, Arkansas. 1916. Plate 15-A in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 735. 1923.
U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library
November 30, 2011
Great series of scans from a 1972 issue of Biology Today over at 50 Watts
(found via @DI_RCA)
November 26, 2011
The Infinite Adventure Machine (prototype #3)
I’ve been working on a new prototype of TIAM, which will be on display at the ACM Multimedia conference from November 28th to December 1st in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The next step will be moving from Max/msp to a browser version in the next couple of months.
