Covering the Space Program NASA doesn’t need much help selling the idea that space is super-awesome, but these covers for manuals and press conference notes from the golden age of spaceflight sure don’t hurt. They are going up for auction later this month. I wouldn’t mind having one or two of those hanging in my house, eh? Check out many more awesome works of vintage NASA PR art here.
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Covering the Space Program NASA doesn’t need much help selling the idea that space is super-awesome, but these covers for manuals and press conference notes from the golden age of spaceflight sure don’t hurt. They are going up for auction later this month. I wouldn’t mind having one or two of those hanging in my house, eh? Check out many more awesome works of vintage NASA PR art here.
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Covering the Space Program NASA doesn’t need much help selling the idea that space is super-awesome, but these covers for manuals and press conference notes from the golden age of spaceflight sure don’t hurt. They are going up for auction later this month. I wouldn’t mind having one or two of those hanging in my house, eh? Check out many more awesome works of vintage NASA PR art here.
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Covering the Space Program NASA doesn’t need much help selling the idea that space is super-awesome, but these covers for manuals and press conference notes from the golden age of spaceflight sure don’t hurt. They are going up for auction later this month. I wouldn’t mind having one or two of those hanging in my house, eh? Check out many more awesome works of vintage NASA PR art here.
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Covering the Space Program NASA doesn’t need much help selling the idea that space is super-awesome, but these covers for manuals and press conference notes from the golden age of spaceflight sure don’t hurt. They are going up for auction later this month. I wouldn’t mind having one or two of those hanging in my house, eh? Check out many more awesome works of vintage NASA PR art here.
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Covering the Space Program

NASA doesn’t need much help selling the idea that space is super-awesome, but these covers for manuals and press conference notes from the golden age of spaceflight sure don’t hurt. They are going up for auction later this month. I wouldn’t mind having one or two of those hanging in my house, eh?

Check out many more awesome works of vintage NASA PR art here.

Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show. The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long… Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show. The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long… Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show. The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long… Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show. The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long… Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show. The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long… Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show. The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long… Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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Fellow Travelers - Our Microbiome Illustrated

A little art to go with the latest episode of the YouTube show.

The human microbiome (and microbiomes in general) may just be my favorite subject in biology. This intricate, and in many ways still-mysterious, microbial ecosystem that each of us carry in and on our bodies affects so much of our life! Are we humans, or super-organisms? And to think that we have been completely ignorant of it for so long…

Here’s some of my favorite impressions of human microbiome science as captured through the eyes of artists. Links for each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

theatlantic: NASA or MOMA? Here are some pictures. Were they taken in space, or painted here on Earth? See more. [Images: NASA,various artists] It’s harder to tell than you might imagine sometimes.  Want more of this stuff? I did a nearly identical post about a month ago. Great minds think alike, I guess I’m ready for The Atlantic!
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theatlantic: NASA or MOMA? Here are some pictures. Were they taken in space, or painted here on Earth? See more. [Images: NASA,various artists] It’s harder to tell than you might imagine sometimes.  Want more of this stuff? I did a nearly identical post about a month ago. Great minds think alike, I guess I’m ready for The Atlantic!
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theatlantic: NASA or MOMA? Here are some pictures. Were they taken in space, or painted here on Earth? See more. [Images: NASA,various artists] It’s harder to tell than you might imagine sometimes.  Want more of this stuff? I did a nearly identical post about a month ago. Great minds think alike, I guess I’m ready for The Atlantic!
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theatlantic: NASA or MOMA? Here are some pictures. Were they taken in space, or painted here on Earth? See more. [Images: NASA,various artists] It’s harder to tell than you might imagine sometimes.  Want more of this stuff? I did a nearly identical post about a month ago. Great minds think alike, I guess I’m ready for The Atlantic!
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theatlantic:

NASA or MOMA?

Here are some pictures. Were they taken in space, or painted here on Earth?

See more. [Images: NASA,various artists]

It’s harder to tell than you might imagine sometimes. 

Want more of this stuff? I did a nearly identical post about a month ago. Great minds think alike, I guess I’m ready for The Atlantic!

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What Is “Sky Blue” Anyway? Color Science! In my latest episode on YouTube, you may have seen the “official sky blue” color that popped up. Curious where that came from? Want to use it in your artwork? I converted 475 nm light, the predominant blue wavelength that’s scattered by our atmosphere (and the reason the sky is blue) into hex code (top), and then added in various amounts of white. Depending on how much water vapor and microscopic dust is in the atmosphere, white light gets mixed in with that pure blue. I’ll probably get in trouble for declaring this “official sky blue”, and RGB colorspace isn’t a perfect model of the eye, but I have science on my side, so there! If you’d like to try yourself, check out this wavelength-to-RGB tool based on the color algorithm developed by Dan Bruton. Subscribe to It’s Okay To Be Smart on YouTube and watch the latest episode: “Why Is The Sky Any Color At All?”
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What Is “Sky Blue” Anyway? Color Science!

In my latest episode on YouTube, you may have seen the “official sky blue” color that popped up. Curious where that came from? Want to use it in your artwork?

I converted 475 nm light, the predominant blue wavelength that’s scattered by our atmosphere (and the reason the sky is blue) into hex code (top), and then added in various amounts of white. Depending on how much water vapor and microscopic dust is in the atmosphere, white light gets mixed in with that pure blue.

I’ll probably get in trouble for declaring this “official sky blue”, and RGB colorspace isn’t a perfect model of the eye, but I have science on my side, so there!

If you’d like to try yourself, check out this wavelength-to-RGB tool based on the color algorithm developed by Dan Bruton.

Subscribe to It’s Okay To Be Smart on YouTube and watch the latest episode: “Why Is The Sky Any Color At All?”

“Lightning Made from Molasses”

When lightning travels through air, its fractal extensions and plasma-infused tendrils are only present for a fleeting fraction of a second. This makes studying those patterns a bit difficult, obviously.

You could use an expensive high-speed camera to capture the phenomenon at >7,000 frames per second, but there’s a much cheaper method: Pump 15,000 volts through plywood.

That’s what Melanie Hoff did above. Sure, it’s not a perfect recreation of a meteorological event, but the slow creep of fractal zaps makes their patterns, and how they are created, jump out. A lesson in math, or weather? You decide.

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The Tree of Life Evolves In honor of Darwin Day (Charles would have been 204 years old on Feb 12, if he were immortal or something), here’s a few of my favorite trees of life from through the ages. Some were designed as scientific references, and some as purely creative tributes, but all are works of art. From Top: Darwin’s original sketch from On the Origin of Species (1859) Ernst Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866) The famous Hillis Plot drawn on a felled tree  An imaginative take on the tree of life by Rosalyn Schanzer Richard Amm’s tribute to the “grandeur in this view of life”, with biology’s increasing complexity growing from the center of a shell As Darwin was inspired by the beauty of nature’s forms to discover how all of Earth’s species are connected, may we be inspired to discover the beauty in science for ourselves.  Happy Darwin Day on Tuesday!
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The Tree of Life Evolves In honor of Darwin Day (Charles would have been 204 years old on Feb 12, if he were immortal or something), here’s a few of my favorite trees of life from through the ages. Some were designed as scientific references, and some as purely creative tributes, but all are works of art. From Top: Darwin’s original sketch from On the Origin of Species (1859) Ernst Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866) The famous Hillis Plot drawn on a felled tree  An imaginative take on the tree of life by Rosalyn Schanzer Richard Amm’s tribute to the “grandeur in this view of life”, with biology’s increasing complexity growing from the center of a shell As Darwin was inspired by the beauty of nature’s forms to discover how all of Earth’s species are connected, may we be inspired to discover the beauty in science for ourselves.  Happy Darwin Day on Tuesday!
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The Tree of Life Evolves In honor of Darwin Day (Charles would have been 204 years old on Feb 12, if he were immortal or something), here’s a few of my favorite trees of life from through the ages. Some were designed as scientific references, and some as purely creative tributes, but all are works of art. From Top: Darwin’s original sketch from On the Origin of Species (1859) Ernst Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866) The famous Hillis Plot drawn on a felled tree  An imaginative take on the tree of life by Rosalyn Schanzer Richard Amm’s tribute to the “grandeur in this view of life”, with biology’s increasing complexity growing from the center of a shell As Darwin was inspired by the beauty of nature’s forms to discover how all of Earth’s species are connected, may we be inspired to discover the beauty in science for ourselves.  Happy Darwin Day on Tuesday!
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The Tree of Life Evolves In honor of Darwin Day (Charles would have been 204 years old on Feb 12, if he were immortal or something), here’s a few of my favorite trees of life from through the ages. Some were designed as scientific references, and some as purely creative tributes, but all are works of art. From Top: Darwin’s original sketch from On the Origin of Species (1859) Ernst Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866) The famous Hillis Plot drawn on a felled tree  An imaginative take on the tree of life by Rosalyn Schanzer Richard Amm’s tribute to the “grandeur in this view of life”, with biology’s increasing complexity growing from the center of a shell As Darwin was inspired by the beauty of nature’s forms to discover how all of Earth’s species are connected, may we be inspired to discover the beauty in science for ourselves.  Happy Darwin Day on Tuesday!
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The Tree of Life Evolves In honor of Darwin Day (Charles would have been 204 years old on Feb 12, if he were immortal or something), here’s a few of my favorite trees of life from through the ages. Some were designed as scientific references, and some as purely creative tributes, but all are works of art. From Top: Darwin’s original sketch from On the Origin of Species (1859) Ernst Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866) The famous Hillis Plot drawn on a felled tree  An imaginative take on the tree of life by Rosalyn Schanzer Richard Amm’s tribute to the “grandeur in this view of life”, with biology’s increasing complexity growing from the center of a shell As Darwin was inspired by the beauty of nature’s forms to discover how all of Earth’s species are connected, may we be inspired to discover the beauty in science for ourselves.  Happy Darwin Day on Tuesday!
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The Tree of Life Evolves

In honor of Darwin Day (Charles would have been 204 years old on Feb 12, if he were immortal or something), here’s a few of my favorite trees of life from through the ages. Some were designed as scientific references, and some as purely creative tributes, but all are works of art.

From Top:

  • Darwin’s original sketch from On the Origin of Species (1859)
  • Ernst Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866)
  • The famous Hillis Plot drawn on a felled tree 
  • An imaginative take on the tree of life by Rosalyn Schanzer
  • Richard Amm’s tribute to the “grandeur in this view of life”, with biology’s increasing complexity growing from the center of a shell

As Darwin was inspired by the beauty of nature’s forms to discover how all of Earth’s species are connected, may we be inspired to discover the beauty in science for ourselves. 

Happy Darwin Day on Tuesday!