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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 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.
June 30, 2008
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:49 PM • 2 Comments •
June 28, 2008
Category: Photography
The best photos ever of human ovulation
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:43 AM • 10 Comments •
June 26, 2008
Category: Film, Video & Music
Why I don't do digital art.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:25 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Conspicuous consumption
Amorphia's T-shirts let you wear your personal pseudoscientific or techno-optimist agenda.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:18 AM • 3 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Category: Poetry
Reinstating the poem of the week tradition! "The Crows at 3 A.M." by Stanley Plumly.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments •
June 24, 2008
Category: Blogs and Blogging
Another fabulous blog to clutter your RSS feed.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:17 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Film, Video & Music
If you can't make a decent film about science, you shouldn't make one at all.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:46 AM • 11 Comments •
June 23, 2008
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:08 AM • 3 Comments •
June 22, 2008
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:50 PM • 7 Comments •
June 20, 2008
Category: Artists & Art
A vacant twelve story building, hundreds of artists, and Peeps dressed in Barbie doll clothing: Artomatic!
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:21 PM • 1 Comments •
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