Breadcrumbs and wings
Category: Artists & Art
The fantasy sculptures of Petra Werle
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March 28, 2008
March 27, 2008
Wellcome Image Winners 2008
Category: Artists & Art
The cream of the Wellcome science image crop.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2008
Destruction of Ironically Titled Art
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:39 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Darwin's Natural Heir
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.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:20 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You can certainly be certain how uncertain you are!
Category: Frivolity
Jonny Berliner sets Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to music.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:37 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2008
Ele-vision!
Category: Frivolity
Elephants with tusk-cams capture candid photos of their neighbors.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:33 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 24, 2008
An unstable contest of minds
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:20 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 23, 2008
Random Art of Sea-Tac
Category: Artists & Art
One way to pass a long layover: art treasure hunt!
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:24 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2008
Extinct Birds Previously Consumed By Humans
Category: Artists & Art
Artist Christy Rupp makes art out of fast food.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
NIH-ural selection
Category: Science in Culture & Policy
Need a grant? Wait until you're 70 - your odds may be better.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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