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a blog about the intersection of science, art, and culture by Jessica Palmer, PhD

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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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SpaceChem!

Category: Education

A few months ago I got an email from Zachtronics, creators of the Codex of Alchemical Engineering, about the new indie game called SpaceChem. It was billed as "an obscenely addictive, design-based puzzle game about building machines and fighting...

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Seeing the invisible? There's an app for that

Category: Dataviz

This video from Xperia Studio very effectively conveys how data visualization can both leverage and challenge our conceptions of "reality." The night sky we've seen since childhood, like everything else we see, is just a tiny slice of the...

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Science visualization for scientists (for a change)

Category: Dataviz

These animations aren't your typical PBS fare - they're animated scientific posters.

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Using art to teach math (and vice versa)

Category: Artists & Art

Annalisa Crannell, a professor at Franklin & Marshall, has a great essay at Inside Higher Ed on the math of perspective. Crannell, who thinks her students are generally more scared of drawing than they are of math, uses the "fencepost...

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I liked you better before your PhD

Category: Dataviz

The New York Times did a special Sunday supplement on graduate programs. The editorial graphics they commissioned have much truth to them, grasshopper....

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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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Rated "euw" for wicked bug sex

Category: Book Reviews

one of the benefits of not being a parent myself is not having to decide at what ages my kids get to read about - and ask me to explain - penis-stabbing insects

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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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Art and religion for science policy?

Category: Events

A CSPO webcast entitled "New Tools for Science Policy" asks an interesting, if somewhat odd, question about science and art: "Can art and religion serve as methods for governing emerging science and technology?" More details: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 5:30...

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Fold-out vintage medical books

Category: Biology

Animated Anatomies, a new show at the Perkins Library at Duke University, explores the tradition of fold-out or pop-up paper anatomical diagrams: Animated Anatomies explores the visually stunning and technically complex genre of printed texts and illustrations known as...

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