Handy flowchart that helps you come to terms with the Higgs Boson
By Fake Science, via rjallain, via BoraZ
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July 4, 2012
The Higgs Boson Walks into a Church…
First: this.
“Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.” (Also note the great quote by Hawking at the above link)
Via reddit, joke by Brian Mallow
July 4, 2012
Inside the museum warehouse. Amazing photo of the bird specimen storage room at the Smithsonian.
“This image, Chip Clark’s most requested photo, shows Roxie Laybourne, Smithsonian research associate, in front, with Birds Division collections staff members Beth Ann Sabo, James Dean, Bonnie Farmer, and Dawn Arculus, in 1992. The Museum holds the largest collection of vertebrate specimens in the world, with over 5.8 million specimens representing fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution”
By Chip Clark (via Eve Rickert)
July 3, 2012
Awesome science-y buttons.
There’s actually a whole bunch of them (mostly not science related), but here are a few that are…
From Run Pencil Run.
July 3, 2012
Powers of Ten: Cubist style #awesome
Hooray For Earth “True Loves” (Cereal Spiller Remix) from Cereal Spiller on Vimeo.
Whoa…
Directed by Cyriak Harris
July 2, 2012
Edouard Martinet’s brilliant metallic sculptures: A gallery of some of his entomological pieces.
By Edouard Martinet (unfortunately, his website is down, but he does have representation with the Sladmore Gallery)
June 30, 2012
“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.”
Love this quote, and so I had to quickly make a little graphic for it. Image from NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona (source link). Font: Helvetica bold.
June 29, 2012
The Moon Hoax of 1835
This is really quite something. Both the narrative of the hoax, as well as these awesome illustrations.
“Purported to be the findings of British astronomer Sir John Herschel, perhaps the best known astronomer of the time, the New York Sun, in a blatant use of yellow journalism, started publishing six stories in 1835 reporting the “discovery of life on the moon.” Most likely authored by Richard E. Locke in an ultimately successful attempt to boost the newspapers readership, the extravagant stories where full of alien flora and fauna, including bat winged men, nude moon maidens with luna-moth wings, unicorn moon bison and bipedal tailless beavers. In the articles it was proposed that an expedition be made to the moon using hydrogen filled balloons lifting ship like gondolas beneath, which later returned to earth under large umbrellas.”
The Proposed Ship for traveling to the Moon.
Types of things discovered on the Moon.
Text by Benjamin Starr at the Visual News.
June 29, 2012
Brilliant witty banners, a few of which would make great visuals for discussions on developmental biology
You know, the whole marvelous thing about going from a single cell zygote to the fully formed little organism.
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