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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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Miniature Fantasies: Paolo Ventura

Category: Artists & Art

L'Automaton #06, 2010 Paolo Ventura (zoom view available here) Artist-photographer Paolo Ventura constructs and photographs miniature, dreamlike scenes. His Winter Stories represent the reminisces of an old circus performer. Above, a scene from the Automaton series captures a mysterious,...

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Randy Hage's Manhattan Wonder Cabinet

Category: Artists & Art

Nick's Luncheonette Randy Hage Via the eye-candy blog How to Be a Retronaut (thanks Miles for first sending me a link there), the painstakingly accurate miniature Manhattan streetscapes of LA artist Randy Hage are half-toy, half-historical document - a...

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Rebuilding the past, virtually: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan

Category: Artists & Art

From the Smithsonian, a short video about using technology to virtually reassemble ancient art from fragments long carried away and dispersed: Majestic sixth-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 3-D imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most...

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If the Founding Fathers wanted to visit Body Worlds. . .

Category: Artists & Art

in the 1760s, Honore Fragonard - cousin of the famous rococo painter - was stripping, dying, and drying bodies into anatomical sculptures that still survive today. A new book explores his world

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Miracle of Science - and beer

Category: Destinations

Miracle of Science: the Cambridge bar around the corner from MIT, where the menu is a (pseudo) periodic table. May I recommend the grilled chicken salad with cilantro lime dressing, "Sc"?...

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Stop torturing me, MIT!

Category: Citizen Science

Now this is just cruel: yesterday the Cambridge Science Festival kicked off - a week of science, sciart, sci-journalism and sci-education activities at MIT, Harvard, the Museum of Science, and surrounds. Am I going to be hanging out all day...

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"the mythoecology of middle-earth"?!?

Category: Books & Essays

Wait - did Peter Nowogrodski just shoehorn everything I love into one meandering, indulgent multimedia essay??* Tolkien's Shire appears as a coherent ecosystem, cradled by productive fields and populated by abundant orchards, caches of edible mushroom, and even the fishable...

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Subway lines as cello strings; an atlas of loneliness

Category: Artists & Art

New York as a stringed instrument, New York as quest for love. Is there any limit to the ways data can be "mapped"?

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Body Voyaging: Fantastic Anatomical and Physiological Journeys Through the Body

Category: Biology

Observatory is hosting another great event tonight: From Heumann Heilmittel, "Eine Reise durch den menschlichen Körper" (1941) Body Voyaging: an illustrated lecture with Kristen Ann Ehrenberger Date: TONIGHT, Monday, January 17th Time: 8:00 PM Admission: $5 Presented by Morbid Anatomy...

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Juxtaposition: urban decay

Category: Artists & Art

The City: Majestic miniature diorama Lori Nix, 2006 The Ruins of Detroit: United Artists Theater photograph Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, 2010 Is urban decay beautiful, heartwrenching, or both?...

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