Breadcrumbs and wings
Category: Artists & Art
The fantasy sculptures of Petra Werle
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bioephemera is art + biology - anything and everything from representations of science in art and literature to the neuroscience of aesthetics. Along with lots of other stuff that's just plain interesting.
Jessica Palmer is a biologist & artist currently based in Washington, DC. She spent the last few years teaching at a small state college out West, and now plays with science policy. Her homepage includes the bioephemera archives & a gallery of her work.
Note: the contents of this blog are the personal opinions of the author, completely independent of any organizations with which she is affiliated.
March 28, 2008
Category: Artists & Art
The fantasy sculptures of Petra Werle
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March 27, 2008
Category: Artists & Art
The cream of the Wellcome science image crop.
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March 26, 2008
Category: Artists & Art
I am normally the last person to find the wanton demolition of art amusing. But I just discovered that early this year, when a windstorm hit my alma mater, Whitman College, a falling tree broke this large metal sculpture by...
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Category: Biology
Edward O. Wilson's career is littered with grand ideas, but his ambition to save what's left of Nature may be the grandest of all.
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Category: Frivolity
Jonny Berliner sets Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to music.
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March 25, 2008
Category: Frivolity
Elephants with tusk-cams capture candid photos of their neighbors.
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March 24, 2008
Category: Department of the Drama
I was reading last week's New Yorker, and this passage by Adam Gopnik - part of a long piece about professional magicians - caught my attention. I really agree with this: Whatever the context, the empathetic interchange between minds is...
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March 23, 2008
Category: Artists & Art
One way to pass a long layover: art treasure hunt!
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March 21, 2008
Category: Artists & Art
Artist Christy Rupp makes art out of fast food.
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March 20, 2008
Category: Science in Culture & Policy
Need a grant? Wait until you're 70 - your odds may be better.
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