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Category: Biology
You might even save a critter doing it
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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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February 28, 2010
Category: Biology
You might even save a critter doing it
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2010
Category: Ephemera
A visualization from NOAA representing the dissipation of energy from the Chilean earthquake....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:36 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2010
Category: Artists & Art
One of the reasons little liberal arts colleges are awesome: this course at Lafayette. It's part of their Values and Science/Technology Program....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2010
Category: Blogosphere
A physicist with a baby iceberg in Qaanaaq, Greenland. (I think its enraged mother is just out of range of the camera, about to crush him.) Via Armed with Science....
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Category: Blogosphere
In Cambridge, at a "Wireside chat" on "Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video" by legal scholar, IP expert and corrupt-government critic Lawrence Lessig. He's comparing the addictivity/potential danger of wifi to smoking. Say it ain't so! I need my wifi!...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:22 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2010
Category: Biology
Sad, weird, and odd: a 1kg spectacled owl attacked, killed, and ate (part of) a defenseless three-toed sloth. Apparently the owl stabbed its talons in the sloth's neck while it was on the way to the ground to defecate, and...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:09 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2010
Category: Blogosphere
So I flatter myself that you *might* be missing lil' ol' me during my blogcation. (Come on, throw me a bone here). But there's a new sibling who might distract you - Claire Evans, "a freelance science writer, science fiction...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Feb 23rd (tomorrow) is the last day to snag advance tickets to the Seven on Seven conference in NYC: Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to...
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February 21, 2010
Category: Blogosphere
FYI: the winners of the AAAS Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge are up! You may recognize some of them - including PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) cartoonist Jorge Cham. Check 'em out and share your opinions; I'll have more to...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2010
Category: Science in Culture & Policy
A quick follow-up to my mention of Edward Tufte last week: you should be aware that Edward Tufte's brief classic, Data Analysis for Politics and Policy, is available online as a PDF here. It's worth a skim in your...
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