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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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April 30, 2010
Category: Blogosphere
[U]nlike artists or musicians, we do have competitors. Only van Gogh can paint like van Gogh and the uniqueness of Beethoven's music is immediately recognizable. Their contributions are irreplaceable. But individual scientists are not irreplaceable. There are many, many examples...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:32 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2010
Category: Artists & Art
Over at scientificblogging.com, Mark Changizi has a post about "unconstrained scientific craziness": I criticized avant-garde artists for their craziness, all the while explicitly aiming for craziness as a scientist! In effect, I was teaching my students to be avant-garde scientists,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:38 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2010
Category: Biology
These are images of cells from GE's IN Cell Analyzer Competition 2010: every year we invite IN Cell Analyzer users to submit their images to the IN Cell Image Competition. This year we have received over 70 fabulous images...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:40 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
An urban art proposal would use pigeon sculptures to project live Twitterstreams on the sidewalk. Because pigeons have so much to say.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2010
Category: Artists & Art
I wanted to let you all know that I've put two framed original watercolor paintings up for sale on etsy: "Bee and Echinacea" (sold) and "The Cicada" (still available). These are likely to be the only original paintings I'll...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:39 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ephemera
Yesterday was a great day for space images. First, celebrating Hubble's 20th anniversary (via Wired): This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" or a Dr. Seuss book,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:56 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2010
Category: Blogosphere
FYI: I'll be appearing next Friday on a panel as part of the "Unruly Democracy: Science Blogs and the Public Sphere" workshop sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Shorenstein Center...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
The Anachronism (Full Film) from Anachronism Pictures on Vimeo. The full length version of The Anachronism, a short film by Matthew Gordon Long, has been released online. The only thing wrong with it is that it isn't longer. Give yourself...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:54 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 22, 2010
Category: Artists & Art
Artist Balint Zsako does remarkable things with collage and biological/anatomical imagery. By embellishing his classically posed subjects with a plethora of arms, swaddlings of restrictive clothing, or provocatively opened fruit, he plays with our expectations: portraits become faceless, the...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2010
Category: Film, Video & Music
I'm not going to comment too much on this, but this is hilariously wrong. I learned from this EFF post that the maker of the oft-parodied Hitler film The Downfall sent a bunch of takedown notices (or something similar using...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:20 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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