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July 27, 2009
Category: Department of the Drama
. . . as soon as possible. As you may have noticed, Scienceblogs is having a few hiccups as it transitions to new servers. I'm having a few issues myself as I transition to a new apartment this week,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2009
Category: Biology
"O.K., let's slowly lower in the grant money." Todd Bearson Arlington, Mass. This cartoon in the latest New Yorker gave me a (cynical) guffaw this morning. Nice caption, Todd Bearson. . . do you work in science? ;)...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Do You Like My Hat? Lori Field Lori Field uses mixed media, including encaustic, to create collage dreamscapes inspired by medical and botanical illustrations. Apparently two-headed kittens are also a theme. See more at the artist's gallery website. Check...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:34 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2009
Category: Conspicuous consumption
Reader Mike sent me the link to this Coke commercial a while ago. I love the exasperated brain pulling himself around - he's like a mob boss driven crazy by his stupid henchmen. Their other ads aren't quite as...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:25 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 19, 2009
Category: Random Acts of Altruism
Ethan at Starts With a Bang has promised to shave his head if 100 commenters promise to give at least $10 to charity or volunteer for 4 hours. So naturally, I had to chip in. Wanna help?...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 18, 2009
Category: Conspicuous consumption
While browsing etsy this weekend, I was impressed with some of the unusual pieces from seller 19moons. These salvaged, chimeric pieces look much more expensive than they are....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Or is it Arma-goo-ddon? For some reason, balls of unidentified biological goo have started showing up in the news. First we had the mysterious North Carolina sewer blob. It turned out that was just a colony of tubifex worms -...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:56 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 17, 2009
Category: Biology
Alstroemeria, sp. Robert Buelteman One of my favorite short stories is Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter, in which an eccentric, Frankensteinian botanist breeds increasingly beautiful, increasingly deadly flowers. These images from Robert Buelteman remind me of Rappaccini's garden. His creative process...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:00 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Janet has a very interesting post over at Adventures in Ethics, springboarding off Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum's new book Unscientific America. She discusses a key concept that seems obvious, but constantly ends up being ignored by both pro-science and...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2009
Category: Artists & Art
Check out these remarkable photos of patterns grown in Japanese rice fields using different strains of pigmented rice. A number of commenters on the thread at funster have suggested the photos are faked, so I found this Japanese news...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:22 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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