Nature is better than you. Now, although I take that statement to be self evident*, I have a very specific and small point in mind that I’d like to elaborate on. Y’know how buying flowers and putting them in a vase is stupid because you get a temporarily pretty scene only to end up a [...]
Halloween is upon us, and what better way to usher in the Dia de los Muertos than to showcase Boston Dynamics, builders of some of the most advanced robots around. Also, the most weird and creepy. Plus their research is funded by DARPA, so no nefarious purposes there, right? In all seriousness, I think the robots are [...]
You may have heard the other day that there was a Beluga that taught itself to mimic human speech sounds. I use the word “speech” lightly, because it sounds more like that time Doug was trying to learn to be a ventriloquist for the school talent show*. Named NOC (No-See), the beluga had figured out [...]
Part 3 in section 2 of our Phylo Coral reef series is the colorful Flamingo Tongue Snail. The FTS is a relatively common gastropod mollusk that feeds on soft coral (as a parasite) and can reach an inch and a half in length. They have a very plain white or cream colored shell that is [...]
I’m trying to put a more active effort into updating the Swag Store, and want to roll out a big update in the near future. I thought I’d start with the most recent avian addition to the cast, which you can see previewed above. Alternate designs with Flockson and Alex H. “Moriarty” Taylor are coming [...]
Welcome back, folks, for another edition of What Are Scientists Shooting Lasers At? where in each comic we take a look at what scientists are shooting lasers at. If I had named the series Where Are Scientists Shooting Lasers, Yo?, it could take the initialism, WASSLY, which is pretty close to the name of Nadir’s dog. How rad [...]
Bubblegum Coral, aka Paragorgia arborea, is the upbeat name given to this genus of cold-water gorgonian coral and is the second in Maki’s Phylo Coral Reef illustrations! As a sea fan Bubblegum Coral prefers areas of exposed currents to sift through and they can grow up to six meters. The branches are all covered in [...]
Quick comic today. My girlfriend and I woke up early to go to the NY Comic Con on Saturday. It was great. I actually went to a couple panels, which was refreshing because the show floor was absolutely unnavigable. I walked the floor twice and pretty much saw nothing because I was too busy squeezing [...]
I’m already way late on the martian blueberry game when I decided to sit down and draw this continuation of the Martian Chronicles*, which references last month’s unceremonious upstaging of the Curiosity rover by its older brother (8 1/2 years now!) Opportunity. The short story, years ago, when Opportunity first landed, it found the ground [...]
The Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus, is not only the largest member of the shark family, it’s also the largest of the fish species–and it’s the first in the series of Phylo Coral-Reef Card illustrations that belong to Maki’s set! Previous entries from my own set can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 It [...]