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Author Archives: Sam Wise
Carnivalia — 2/08 – 2/14
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
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Casual Friday — shady business with a lathe
An interesting look at a low-tech way to make a lamp shade — out of a slice of a log, with a lathe (direct link)
Posted in Humor / Just for fun, YouTubing
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Carnivalia 2/01 – 2/07
The past week’s selection of science-related blog carnivals for your reading pleasure…
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Space
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The scientific tourist #209 — scarification in stone
Standards of beauty are definitely a culturally-defined thing — and today’s image is just one example of that…
Posted in History, Humanity, Sci / Tech Tourism
Tagged archaeology, History, Humanity, Mérida, Maya, Mexico, museum, sculpture
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Carnivalia — 1/25 – 1/31
The past week’s crop of science-related blog carnivals for your reading pleasure: Carnival of Space #234 Circus of the Spineless #69 Friday Ark #370
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
Tagged Astronomy, Biology, Carnivalia, Humanity, Space
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The scientific tourist #208 — A6M7 Zero fighter
Posted in History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Technology
Tagged fighter, History, museum, Technology, World War II, WWII
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Casual Friday — inserting objects into existing imagery
So let’s say you’ve got a photograph of some place, and you really wish it contained something that wasn’t present at the time the image was taken. A recent presentation at SIGGRAPH shows how to do just that in a realistic way, and Photoshop isn’t involved…
Carnivalia — 1/18 – 1/24
The past week’s bounty crop of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals for your reading pleasure…
The scientific tourist #207 — the VK-1 jet engine
This week’s picture comes to you from the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum in Tutusville, Florida. It’s a Russian VK-1 jet engine…
Posted in Carnivalia, History, Sci / Tech Tourism, Technology
Tagged Carnivalia, cold war, engineering, History, jet, Russia, Technology
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Casual Friday — don’t break the internet!
For those who haven’t become saturated by the argument (in the U.S., anyway) over the SOPA / PIPA bills floating around in Congress, here’s a bit more background for you…