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A place of mostly science, art, writing and occasionally Chewbacca, all lovingly archived by Dave Ng. For recent highlights just scroll down, but also note the handy tag system (for finding that piece of media for your next science talk) just below. Enjoy!

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“Science is awesome, that is all”.

Haunting and surreal renditions of scientific imagery by Daniel Martin Diaz

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By Daniel Martin Diaz, via Thinx (also Boing Boing)

Dinosaurs made from light, by Darren Pearson

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By Darren Pearson, via Colossal

Cell as a Death Star like entity (with mini virus spaceship in the mix). Awesome science illustration by Glen McBeth

* I wonder if he’s illustrated a card game before… (We do have a Darwin themed deck to work on)

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By Glen McBeth (also check out his awesome blog).

Large scale whale photos: epic and beautiful.

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“Photographer and conservationist Bryant Austin captures some truly breathtaking shots of whales as a reminder of their beauty and existence in the vast oceans. The photographer manages to get full body shots of them, a feat that so few are able to achieve with such high quality, while revealing remarkable details of these aquatic mammoths. Browsing through his collection, one feels like they can actually reach out and touch the giant creatures, feeling the texture of their skin while examining the breadth of their bodies.”

By Bryant Austin. Text via My Modern Met.

Illustrations from vintage children’s book on magnets.

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Via Fresh Photons (Can’t find attribution but would love to know who the artist is)

Beautiful and colourful geometric paintings by James Wyper

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By James Wyper, via Thinx

Wow. This here is what you would call a gigantic rotating supercell!

supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft.[1] For this reason, these storms are sometimes referred to asrotating thunderstorms.[2] Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line,multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local climate up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) away. (From Wikipedia)

A supercell near Booker, Texas from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.

By Mike Olbinski, via Colossal

This re-imagining of the periodic table by LIFE magazine is gorgeous.

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(Click image for hi-res version).

From LIFE Magazine (1949), via io9

I love this art piece. “My Father Studied Geology” by Jensine Eckwall @WhoIsJensine

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By Jensine Eckwall

Beautifully illustrated birds on old envelopes

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By Mark Powell, via Colossal

Food as the backdrop to the activities of tiny tiny people.

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By Christopher Boffoli, via My Modern Met. Also available as a book.

These images by Hollis Brown Thornton would make interesting slides for a segue into astrobiology.

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By Hollis Brown Thornton

I’m so cool, it’s ridiculous. An animated gif for the astronaut in all of us.

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By Adrijan, via Fresh Photons

Roger Ebert quote done in a particularly moving way

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By Zen Pencils

This marine theme lamppost installation is brilliant!

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Another great ad from the Vancouver Aquarium, via Buzzfeed

So much beauty it almost makes up for the fact they poop through their mouths.

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Great ad from the Vancouver Aquarium, via Buzzfeed

How to think when validating claims. This, from xkcd

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From xkcd

This rendition of the periodic table by @annekatran is just wonderful. #chemistry #want

I would so buy this if it was available (although it would also be cool to add some of the usual atomic info into the table as well)

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By Anneka Tran (click on image for larger view)

This is why the dolphins don’t play with the narwhals.

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By Liz Climo

Biodiversity, science and surrealism, together as lovely art by Tiffany Bozic

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By Tiffany Bozic, via Colossal.

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