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
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
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
A giant Bayer aspirin. Photo by Grasons.
I guess this is why it’s important to know your partner’s sign. Photo by mmd Antiques.
Behind every great Nobel Prize-winning scientist is a scientist in high heels with two Nobel Prizes. Photo by Jan Jessie Jocoy.
Photo by Sandy’s.
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
This issue from June 1939 shows us the amazing world of the future. Photo by Stellar.
New! Mystifying! Fascinating! When the top is spun up, centrifugal force* opens the petals to reveal a ballerina. Here’s some video of one in action.… Read More »Magic Tulip Top