Radioactive ghost peacock

Composition with uranium glass vase, albino peacock feather, blacklight, and black velvet.

Jade flowers

Each individual blossom is tiny, about the size of an American dime.

Liberty as Death

After the Iranian hostage crisis (1979-1981), the walls of the former US embassy [in Tehran] were covered in mostly anti-US-murals.

Duria Antiquior, a more ancient Dorset

One of the earliest examples of paleontological art, painted in 1830 by Henry de la Beche.

Primordial virus

Elk Cloner:  The program with a personality

        It will get on all your disks
          It will infiltrate your chips
            Yes it's Cloner!

        It will stick to you like glue
          It will modify ram too
            Send in the Cloner!

--The message displayed on screen by computers infected with Elk Cloner, one of the first computer viruses. Created in the early 1980's by a high school student, this program spread on Apple computers through floppy disks, and little could be done about it because anti-virus software hadn't been developed yet.