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June 30, 2009
Category: DC
Last Friday, in my post on Nature's comprehensive coverage of science journalism, I mentioned the recent Nature Biotechnology conference paper on science communications co-authored by scibling Matt Nisbet. I also said I'd come back to one of the points in...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:11 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, Ben Tolman's intricate, epic drawings can hold your attention for a long, long time.
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Category: Blogosphere
Today is the last day of the Silence is the Enemy fundraising drive here at BioE - when I get my proceeds I'll send them along to Doctors Without Borders, probably along with a little extra, since I don't usually...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:28 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2009
Category: Photography
Mark Mawson's Aqueous series consists of amazing fluid artworks created by dropping paint into water. I wasn't going to blog about them, because everyone else is already, but I found it remarkable how similar they are to jellyfish -...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
John Timmer at Ars Technica discusses the results of a survey of bloggers which seems to suggest that, while most bloggers hold themselves to a reasonably high ethical standard, they don't necessarily expect other bloggers to do so. I think...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:29 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Tracey Clarke has taken nearly every teen girl's habit of doodling horses, turned it into startlingly realistic animal portraiture, and then added a frisson of creepiness.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2009
Category: Artists & Art
nmohan of the collaborative artists group Robot Disorder just contacted me to let me know they've launched the Robot Disorder 2.0 website, with more robot hordes (and easier navigation). He says they have literally thousands of robot drawings to...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
"The medium is essentially highly flammable furniture stripper gel - set on fire of course. "
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June 27, 2009
Category: Biology
If this story is to be believed, Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens is going to plastinate Michael Jackson. I have no objection to plastination per se, but I think it would be uniquely tragic for Michael Jackson to remain...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:24 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Only two weeks left for Artomatic! For the next week, I'm going to highlight some of the Artomatic artists that especially impressed me, starting with Fabian Rios Rubino.
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