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sidebarphoto.jpg 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 received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley, spent the last few years teaching at a small state college out West, and is now exploring science policy and communications. Her homepage includes the bioephemera blog archive & 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.

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June 30, 2008

Only a few hours left to apply for astronaut school!

Category: Education

FYI - the deadline to apply for astronaut school is tomorrow, July 1: NASA is now accepting applications for its 2009 astronaut class. The agency is looking for a few men and women who want to fulfill their dreams and...

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June 28, 2008

Egg-cellent

Category: Photography

The best photos ever of human ovulation

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June 26, 2008

When stick figures rebel

Category: Film, Video & Music

Why I don't do digital art.

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Wear the Controversy! Ride a Paramecium!

Category: Conspicuous consumption

Amorphia's T-shirts let you wear your personal pseudoscientific or techno-optimist agenda.

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June 25, 2008

Poem of the Week: Crows and Blackbirds

Category: Poetry

Reinstating the poem of the week tradition! "The Crows at 3 A.M." by Stanley Plumly.

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June 24, 2008

Psychology and Dr. Strangelove? Ptak!

Category: Blogs and Blogging

Another fabulous blog to clutter your RSS feed.

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What Happened, Night?

Category: Film, Video & Music

If you can't make a decent film about science, you shouldn't make one at all.

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June 23, 2008

More word games: etymology

Category: Words

My friend Rhett alerted me to this little word game, which is kind of like Balderdash: you pick the correct etymology or definition from a group of fakes created by tricky readers. I did quibble with a couple of mistakes...

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June 22, 2008

Eternal Enema

Category: Frivolity

Here's a bit of weirdness I saw on Friday but didn't have time to blog - a Botticelli-inspired monument to the enema: A health spa in Russia has unveiled a bronze monument of three cherubs carrying an enema, a...

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June 20, 2008

The Night DC Stood Peeped

Category: Artists & Art

A vacant twelve story building, hundreds of artists, and Peeps dressed in Barbie doll clothing: Artomatic!

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