Astronomy
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New Horizons – A Painting about a Spacecraft
This painting marks a point in time, when for the first time, a spacecraft sent from Earth traveled all the…
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Mad Art Cast and Espresso
Coffee. It is arguably one of the most important elements in art. For centuries visual artists and other creators have…
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Italy is Sending an Espresso Machine to the ISS
This afternoon, SpaceX is launching its Dragon V2 spacecraft to deliver 4,300 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station.…
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Radio Astronomers are LOOKING not Listening to the Cosmos
Support more of my science and art projects like this one on my Patreon. One of the myths about the…
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Lab Track: Rocketman by Iron Horse
In general, I tend to shy away from old classics as Lab Tracks in favor of new science-themed songs that…
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Lab Track: Every Age
Today’s Lab Track comes via the suggestion of Skepchick writer Jamie Bernstein, and it’s sure to give you chills. (Hey,…
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That time we went to NASA
This past weekend, Nasa Ames had an open house to celebrate their 75th anniversary — something that hasn’t happened in…
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Summing the Cosmos: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and The Saga of the Cepheid Stars (Women in Science 22)
Astronomy is the sifting science. Its practitioners rake the sky, star by star, collecting and cataloguing, and when they are…
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