The Art of Seeing Air: Exploring Schlieren Photography

With Schlieren photography, even a person’s breath can be captured. It is often used to illustrate various flows, shockwaves, bullets, flames, and fire propagation. NASA has even developed a version of the method that allows supersonic aircraft to be photographed in flight. Most people have probably seen such images before — in recent years, the … Read more

Hitler’s Goldfish

It is not widely known that Hitler was a vegetarian, and even fewer people know that he was also an animal welfare advocate. Allegedly, the idea to ban bowl-shaped aquariums originated with him, as he believed it was animal cruelty that the fish had no corners to hide in and that the bowl distorted the … Read more