Author Archives: Stan Flouride

I believe every garment is either a costume or a uniform but sometimes things get a bit twisted.

I wish it were possible to zoom in on this map to see how the Eden of an Earth with no humans would have looked: The natural diversity of large mammals is shown as it would appear without the impact … Continue reading →

The Simpsons’ home town given a noir treatment by artist Tim Doyle:

Now that the series Mad Men has ended, seeing the incredible sets in their actual context is a delight.

Today the satirical group that produces Bad Lip Reading has hilariously taken on the first Rethuglican debate. Not surprisingly, what they have them saying is mostly more coherent than what was actually said. Bad Lip Reading is a series of videos put … Continue reading →

Great footage from 1930s of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in every phase of construction. via Prelinger Archives – Bethlehem Steel Documentary

This dramatic outburst from the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko occured on August 12, just hours before perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. Completing an orbit of the Sun once every 6.45 years, perihelion distance for this periodic comet is about … Continue reading →

Image Credit & Copyright: André van der Hoeven (via Astronomy Picture of the Day) Featured below is a meteor caught exploding two weeks ago above Austria next to the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy.  Tonight the Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its maximum. Grains of icy rock will streak across the … Continue reading →

This amazing photograph of a Cambodian garbage scavenger by Malaysian Yap Kh is tragic and yet beautiful in its poignancy. Amid the haze of toxic fumes from burning garbage, in an atmosphere filled with the overpowering stench of rotting waste and surrounded … Continue reading →

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated … Continue reading →