Author Archives: Stan Flouride

Image Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA; Processing & Copyright : Francesco AntonucciExplanation: Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster  NGC 1893. Formed in the … Continue reading →

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Florida in October 2014. The peninsula is highly recognizable even at night, especially when looking roughly north, as our map-trained brains expect. Illuminated areas give a strong sense of the … Continue reading →

Illustrator Austin Light has created a funny series of sketches that re-imagines movie titles with one letter removed.

Ideas, good, bad, and WTF?!

I find this quite pleasant to watch.

HIGHLANDERS have used it through the ages to help them perform great feats of strength while staving off hunger and thirst. Roman soldiers also took it to give them the endurance to fight prolonged battles against the barbarian hordes. Now … Continue reading →

Three Reslo microphones, along with their stands, that were used by The Beatles – along with a host of important early British rock n’ roll acts – at the famed Cavern Club in Liverpool will form the centerpiece of an … Continue reading →

  Iris Lee Gay Jordan, 92 (left), and Fred Upham, 93 (right)—two of the few remaining children of veterans of the Civil War—appear as they might have had they lived in the 1860s. The photographs are tintypes, made on a … Continue reading →

(Shown: not actual study participants) The results showed that people would sacrifice an average of 20p per shock to prevent shocks to themselves and 40p per shock to prevent shocks to others. For example, they would pay on average £8 … Continue reading →