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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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January 30, 2009
Category: Artists & Art
The Pigeon of Passage The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, 1754 Mark Catesby Unlike Benjamin Button, he's not up for an Oscar, but he's also a film star - several hundred years late. Mark Catesby...
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January 29, 2009
Category: Biology
Weirdest lede ever? A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week. Go DARPA! Article (MIT Technology Review) here. Video here....
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Category: Biology
For Christmas, my friend Vanessa got me this wonderful Equal Measure measuring cup by Fred. One side gives measures in cups and ounces, along with the equivalent quantity of various granular substances (five thousand drops of water, as many...
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Category: Conspicuous consumption
Sadly, Hershey has announced the immediate closing of the small Berkeley factory that, since 2001, has been the flagship of Scharffen Berger chocolate. Scharffen Berger's dark chocolates were a favorite among Bay Area residents years before it was sold to...
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January 28, 2009
Category: Science in Culture & Policy
I know FoxNews does this all the time, but sometimes I accidentally click through to their site and am shocked anew by this sort of thing: Still worried that the Large Hadron Collider will create a black hole that will...
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January 27, 2009
Category: Artists & Art
Semiconductor's film "Magnetic Movie" revels in the noise and static NASA shuns, with an eerie, grungy, steampunky data remix - one that reminds us how thoroughly processed and homogenized scientific images often are.
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Category: Artists & Art
While I was at work, Sciencepunk beat me to posting that Damien Hirst (of dead-shark fame) has created an original artwork for the anniversary reissue of Darwin's On the Origin of Species: Human skull in space (oil on canvas) Damien...
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January 26, 2009
Category: Cephalopodmania
My favorite Academy Award nomination: Oktopodi. By Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand. Read an interview with Mokhberi - chock full of storyboard images, video, and other goodies - here....
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January 25, 2009
Category: Artists & Art
Itoh's stones are the practical jokes nature might play on us, if our world were more like a children's book.
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January 24, 2009
Category: Photography
This is a picture of. . . A) the hair cells of the bat inner ear B) a metals-polymer nanowire array C) a previously unknown species of sea anemone D) the cilia of the common goldfish parasite Trichodina Answer...
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