Arbitrary Propaganda

Newborn American Bison calf less than 2 hours old in Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA

photograph by Theresa Bielawski

Aatish Bhatia noticed a plant in his backyard whose leaves naturally repelled water. He took a sample to a friend who had access to a high-speed camera and an electron microscope to investigate what made the leaves so hydrophobic.

Thank you for taking the time to visit this page. Here’s the short of it: If my husband and I cannot come up with $1,000 by July 1, 2014 we will become homeless. Currently, we owe our landlords $1,000 towards the security deposit; we’ve been living here for 2, almost 3 months and have not been a…

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The philosopher Descartes invented Roulette.

How is it we can know what Jupiter’s Great Red Spot looks like, or Saturn’s rings, or the dusty surface of Mars, though no human has every seen them in person? Michael Benson turns NASA’s data sets and grainy pictures into dazzling, saturated images of our solar system. It’s art on the frontiers of the 21st century.