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left: Museum Box #1; right: Arch Angel (no dates).

Raccoon Kit With Lenses (no date).
• Kimberley Brooks interview
• Ron Pippin at Obsolete
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• Custom creatures
• Polly Morgan, fine art taxidermist
• The sculpture of Christopher Conte
• Pierre Matter’s cyborg sculpture
• Cryptozoology
• Insect Lab
• The art of Jessica Joslin
• The Museum of Fantastic […]

Lampris Guttatus (Moonfish).
Some bones for Halloween… Have a good one.
Photograph from Evolution (in Action): Natural History Through Spectacular Skeletons, a book of striking animal skeleton pictures by Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu and Patrick Gries.

Best Science Images of 2007
National Geographic awards.

East of Paracelsus, a view from Apollo 15 (1971).
One of a number of photographs from the Apollo missions being taken out of cold storage in Arizona and scanned at very high resolution, should you need a 1.3 GB image of the lunar surface. I was totally obsessed with the Apollo missions when I was […]

Biologists Helping Bookstores
“My mission: To correctly shelve pseudo-scientific junk to the appropriate parts of bookstores.”

The horoscope of Prince Iskandar, grandson of Tamerlane, the Turkman Mongol conqueror, by Imad al-Din Mahmud al-Kashi, showing the positions of the heavens at the moment of Iskandar’s birth on 25th April 1384.
From the Wellcome Trust image collection. Considering the Wellcome Trust’s medical background, there’s a surprising amount of non-scientific material in its image library, […]

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768).

As promised, one of my favourite chiaroscurists. The impression Joseph Wright’s work made on me at the age of 13 was one of many revelations from my first visit to the Tate Gallery. The paintings which struck me most of the older works there were all […]

A monthly global image composite from Nasa’s Earth Observatory project, showing topographic and bathymetric shading.

Debating the Big Wow.
Orch OR or “the quantum soul”. Fascinating stuff.

Vernal Equinox by Jon Hassell; the perfect listening
for the “momentous poem among moments”.