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Category: Biology
Since I posted last night, DrugMonkey, Dr. Free-Ride, and the Intersection have also checked in with their POVs on this issue. I particularly liked this comment from Dr. Free-Ride: We get to foot the bill for the effects of other...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
The very epitome of bioephemera, from Microbial Art: Artist JoWOnder presents a pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia created with bacteria. The demise of the painting is filmed using time-lapse photography, showing a story of death and creation of new life....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Heartbreaking photos of albatross chicks, by photographer Chris Jordan: These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The...
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Category: Biology
OK: I'm female AND a biologist, and looking at this one freaks ME out! I'm all in favor of appreciating the beauty of female anatomy and miracle of childbirth and all, but this pasty, long-limbed newborn doll with a detatchable...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Montana authorities characterize the loss of a Yellowstone wolf pack to hunters as "a learning experience".
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Category: Biology
For all my microbiology/cell biology peeps, this could be a neat opportunity. ASCB has obtained a two-year stimulus grant from NIH to assemble an image library of the cell. According to Caroline Kane, project PI and professor emerita at UC-Berkeley...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Photographer Kevin Van Aelst's work is clever, funny, and meticulous to a fault.
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Category: Biology
Dominik Paquet Getting on this a little late, but the 35th annual Nikon Small World competition winners are out! See article and gallery from SciAm....
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Category: Biology
Okay, so this apron by Aksel Varichon is awesome. Very fun. But what's with the oven mitt? If the premise of the apron is that we're seeing internal anatomy partially revealed on the wearer's body, doesn't the matching mitt...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:04 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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