- Jenny Odell writes about the notorious “free watch”
- Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence
- Lens Rentals describes cameras and lenses they received damaged by the eclipse
- Scientific Books Of Yesteryear
- How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record
- The computer that made the CGI in Star Wars (with video)
- African cheetah enjoys grooming session from angry meerkat (YouTube)
- Download and 3D Print: Cassini spacecraft
- A LaTeX package for drawing ducks
- Comet turns out to be a binary asteroid
- Compound Camera: An inflatable compound-eye camera obscura
- Camera Movement in the silent film Wings (1927)
For the star-wars graphics, Larry Cuba (et al?) made a 10 minute tutorial/demo on how the clip was made, and it’s been online for about a decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMeSw00n3Ac
(Interesting stuff, and a startling reminder of how little of the effects in the original Star Wars film were done on a computer!)
My parents had a Handbook of Chemistry and Physics from the 20s. It includes instructions for mixing photo developing chemicals, silvering mirrors, and making crosshairs from spider silk, along with the usual tables.