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McDonaldland and the McMetric System
Big Mac joining forces with Big International Bureau for Weights and Measures in 1974. Even Ronald McDonald wasn’t enough to successfully import these foreign units… Read More »McDonaldland and the McMetric System
Project Helios
Great model of the Helios spacecraft. The base commemorates this joint US-German project from the 1970s. As you might guess, the two probes in this… Read More »Project Helios
Roswell Festival 2007 – 60th anniversary of Weather Balloon
Great pulp-y science fiction art for this poster for the Roswell UFO Festival. The Roswell ‘UFO’ of 1947 has been convincingly demonstrated to have been… Read More »Roswell Festival 2007 – 60th anniversary of Weather Balloon
For big headaches
A giant Bayer aspirin. Photo by Grasons.
There may be something to astrology after all
I guess this is why it’s important to know your partner’s sign. Photo by mmd Antiques.
The Curies
Behind every great Nobel Prize-winning scientist is a scientist in high heels with two Nobel Prizes. Photo by Jan Jessie Jocoy.
More fun than a barrel of Freon by Dupont
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UCLA Endowed Chair is… a Chair
Dennis Cantwell “was appointed as the first Joseph Campbell Professor of Child Psychiatry.” I note a slight typo in that this happened in 1980 rather… Read More »UCLA Endowed Chair is… a Chair
Water Polo! Get it? Popular Science
This issue from June 1939 shows us the amazing world of the future. Photo by Stellar.