'History' Category
Casual Friday — a D.I.Y. Turing Machine
Compute anything that can be calculated — with some tape leader and a dry-erase marker…
Carnivalia — 5/12 – 5/18
The past week’s crop of science-related blog carnivals awaits your reading attentions…
Four Stone Hearth #92
Welcome to the 92nd edition of the Four Stone Hearth archaeology / anthropology blog carnival!
The scientific tourist #122 — Mariner 9
This week’s image is a scan of a photograph I took at JPL back in 1989, it’s a small model of the Mariner 9 spacecraft…
Carnivalia — 4/21 – 4/27
Plenty of reading material in the past week’s crop of blog carnivals…
The scientific tourist #121 — Phantom
This week’s image is of an F-4 Phantom II fighter on display at the San Diego Air and Space Museum…
Carnivalia — 4/14 – 4/20
A bounty crop of good reading awaits you in the past week’s selection of (mostly) science-related blog carnivals…
The scientific tourist #120 — Early Zeps
This week’s image comes to you from the Technisches Museum in Vienna (Wien), Austria…
The scientific tourist #118 — the Natter
This week’s image comes to you from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany — it’s a replica of a Bachem Ba349 Natter (Adder)…
Casual Friday — Anthony Aveni and the Nazca Lines
Anthony Aveni talks about the history, construction, and purpose of Peru’s Nazca Lines. 1 hr. and 15 minutes long, but well worth the time when you can spare it…
