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The scientific tourist #253 — da Vinci’s armored car

Posted on 17 December, 2012 by Sam Wise

Seen at the Galleria Michelangelo in Florence Italy, it’s a wooden model of a da Vinci armored car… Continue reading →

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Casual Friday — moving the moai

Posted on 26 October, 2012 by Sam Wise

Everybody who’s ever seen the huge stone heads (moai) of Easter Island has wondered how they could possibly have been moved into place… Continue reading →

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The scientific tourist #212 — leaning into it

Posted on 5 March, 2012 by Sam Wise

Today’s photo comes to you from the National Archaeological Museum of Florence (Museo Archeologico Centrale dell’ Etruria); it’s a fragment of limestone, originally from the palace of Sennacherib in Ninevah…

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The scientific tourist #210 — the disk of Chichén Itzá

Posted on 20 February, 2012 by Sam Wise

Another shot from Mérida’s Museum of Anthropology and History, this one’s a carved disc found in the site’s observatory…

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The scientific tourist #187 — Pueblo Bonito, from above

Posted on 15 August, 2011 by Sam Wise

Pueblo Bonito is both the largest, as well as the best known great house in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico — but that doesn’t mean that there’s agreement on just what it is…

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Casual Friday — the Antikythera Mechanism recreated, with Legos

Posted on 17 December, 2010 by Sam Wise

Courtesy of Nature magazine, a modern creation of the world’s first (mechanical) computer…

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