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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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March 31, 2010
Category: Artists & Art
With some portraits, you can feel the eyes following you around the room. With Sophie Cave's art installation make that fifty pairs of eyes - in fifty expressions ranging from disgust to shock to delight. All suspended above you...
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Category: Books & Essays
Women have white matter, men have duct tape. Or so implies Louann Brizendine's latest book, the Male Brain, dissected in this post and comments at Language Log: You may remember the controversy surrounding her previous book, the Female Brain, which...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:46 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2010
Category: Gender Issues
Slate asks, "You rarely see women holding management positions in terrorist groups. Is there a glass ceiling for female Islamist terrorists?" Um. . . A. Did you just seriously ask that question? B. Are we supposed to be surprised that...
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Category: Artists & Art
Suspended, spherical photos and paintings have planet-like presences
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March 29, 2010
Category: Biology
Good idea: the National Zoo is letting us name its Giant Pacific octopus. Bad idea: the names. All four are terrible: Olympus: This octopus arrived at the Zoo just before the 2010 Winter Olympics, and for many zoogoers the...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:56 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Retrotechnology and steampunk
I don't think I've posted yet about Andrew Chase's graceful articulated metal sculptures. His cheetah is particularly stunning. Click the image to watch it run! Chase's mechanical sculptures have way more personality than metal should. The soulful eyes of his...
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Category: Frivolity
This poem by Rosemary Kirstein is truly a worthy successor to the classic by Wallace Stevens. (Thanks to Jen Ouellette for sharing.)...
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Category: Destinations
A recent CNN article points out that the Georgia Guidestones, a carved granite monument erected in 1980 by a mysterious donor obsessed with the possibility of civilization's destruction, wouldn't be all that useful to humankind's survivors: The center column...
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March 28, 2010
Category: Artists & Art
museum diorama-maker Joianne Bittle is also an accomplished natural illustrator/artist
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Category: Biology
touch-screen access to the inside of the human body
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