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a blog about the intersection of science, art, and culture by Jessica Palmer, PhD
Jessica Palmer has a PhD in Molecular Biology and has been blogging about the intersection of art and biology since 2006.
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October 30, 2008
Category: Frivolity
I can't freehand a parallelogram to save my life, but I can bisect an angle with the best of 'em! Woohoo! How good are you at eyeballing geometry? Test yourself with this game. It's addictive, although your eyes will tire...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:18 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Only two days left in the challenge - and this science/art project is only $125 from completion! Plus, an update on the painting/print giveaway. . .
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:00 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2008
Category: Blogosphere
I was meme-tagged a while ago by Thomas at Medical Museion, and I never got around to responding, because I was incapacited by indecision! The meme (which originated with Arte y Pico) requires that I recommend five inspiring blogs...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in Culture & Policy
The Editors of SEED just officially endorsed Barack Obama: Science is a way of governing, not just something to be governed. Science offers a methodology and philosophy rooted in evidence, kept in check by persistent inquiry, and bounded by the...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
De prospectiva pingendi, Book 3, figure lxiv Piero della Francesca (c 1412-92) This month's Lancet has an interesting article by G.D. Schott, linking Piero della Francesca's pioneering orthographic projections to technologies like fMRI: In the neurosciences today, images of...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2008
Category: Biology
Care to guess what this is? A. a dragonfly wing. B. a solar panel array. C. winter fields in the mountains of Thailand. D. a gecko foot. E. the award-winning roof of a new modern art museum in Seattle....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2008
Category: Artists & Art
Amazingly, it's already the last week of the DonorsChoose fundraising drive! SEED has generously kicked in matching funds for each blogger, which enabled me to contribute to several more projects - but we only have a total of $1,026 so...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:40 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Liz Wolfe's candied confections are anything but innocent.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Words
Robert Crease observes at Physicsworld that the upcoming James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is only one of many instances - some inaccurate or misleading - of "quantum" in our cultural discourse. To explain the ubiquity of the word, Crease...
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October 26, 2008
Category: Photography
Catching up on the announcement of the 2008 Nikon Small World contest winners, here's sixth place winner Klaus Bolte's stereomicrograph of a microleaf beetle (Chrysolina fastuosa). While you might think you've seen this kind of beetle before, pinned prettily...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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