Headed Underground

...back to the days of 1973-1974, when a token to ride the underfunded and rapidly-deteriorating subway system of New York City would cost you 35 cents.








































Photos via flickr/the National Archives.

Biology Today, 1972

Science textbooks always had the coolest pictures! The only problem with them was how back in school when I'd see pictures like these, I'd inevitably end up doodling my own copies and versions of them in the margins of my notebook (or across huge parts of the page around my notes - shhh) instead of paying full attention to my teacher. Oops!


















Figure 8.4. "An artist's depiction of a swarm of rapidly dividing bacteria."


"Human Possibilities"


"Building Blocks of Nervous Systems"


Title page to Chapter 20: Plant Hormones


Eucaryotic Cells


Figure 9.1. "An artist's interpretation of a pandemic."




Figure 24.13: "The relative proportions of body region representation in the motor cortex (anterior to the central fissure) and in the somesthetic cortex (the post central gyrus)."


Title page to Chapter 39: Human Origins


Title page to Chapter 35: Population Interactions and Communities


Title page to Chapter 30: Behavioral States


Figure 43.12: "A photographic impression of a speed trip."




images via a journey round my skull

Third Planet

I know I'm a day late for Earth Day,
but shouldn't every day be "Earth Day,"
anyway? It's an awfully good place to us, after all...































































Most pictures via cosmic dust, with a few from Sharon Tingley's photostream, one of the most magical peeks back in time I've seen.