Blinded By Science

Fantastic illustrations of the future from this 1963 graphic booklet found at El Desvan del Abuelito

You can't Stop Stubborn Italian Neutrinos.

Found on the Rachal Maddow "Week in Geek" blog segment.

"Neutrinos are the hot topic today, so I thought we could all use a refresher on what elementary particles are. In Italian of course, because it's molto interessante that way."
The Gran Sasso, That's where Mussolini once holed up too.

The Scale of the Universe

Douglas Adams mentioned in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that "Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is..." and "If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion…"

This flash animation is safer than being plugged into a piece of fairy cake. (From chapter 11 of the Hitchhiker's guide.)

A feature on the original web location is the flash that creates Randomly generated sizes! That just wrong, man! and may make Uranus the size of Planck's length. And a Swirley Version for you relativists.

Geek on...

Back When A Brontosaurus Meant Something

Selected pages from

Prehistoric Animals

Dinosaurs and other Reptiles and Mammals

Adapted from the pages of LIFE

Golden Library Of Knowledge

Images from years 1952-1961

Skeletons In the Closet

In photographer Klaus Pichler's project Skeletons In the Closet taxidermied animals are on the lose! (via Conscientious)

Mad Science

A collection you should browse via Silverghost1951

All About Radiation

"This book’s title,"All About Radiation", is a bit misleading because in addition to a lot of spurious text on "radiation," the author devotes a fair amount of space to trumpeting the wonders of Scientology. But since the author in question is L. Ron Hubbard, a healthy dose of Scientological proselytizing is to be expected. And, to be fair, Hubbard’s misguided ramblings about radiation are about as coherent as his bizarre assertions on the powers of Scientology, so the book is fairly well balanced in its incoherence. ..."
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On pages 91 through 93 Hubbard boasts that Scientology is "leading" in the development of a chemical to deal with the harmful effects of radiation. The formula for this "wonder" drug dubbed "Dianazene" is as follows and should be taken, Hubbard advises, daily with milk and chocolate:

200 mg. of Nictonic Acid

10 grains of Iron Ferrous Gluconate

25 mg. of Vitamin B

150 mg. of Vitamin B2-Riboflavin

200 to 500 mg. of Vitamin C-Ascorbic Acid

25 to 35 grains of Dicalcium Phosphate

Not only does Dianazene "run out" radiation, Hubbard states, “it also proofs a person up against radiation to a degree.” And if that weren’t enough, Hubbard adds, "it also turns on and runs out incipient cancer." Wow. ..."

Find out more about this book over at Conelrad Read Alert.

LSD - My Problem Child

Here's the link to Dr. Albert Hofmann's book. It's a delightful read, a wonderful historical document, and a clear view of an elegant, insightful, kind, well-intended man.
RIP

How Scientists Visualize the REAL Flying Saucer Men (Jun, 1951)

Source: Mechanix Illustrated / issue: June, 1951

Via the mythical BlogModernMechanix

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