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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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The contents of this blog are the personal opinions of the author, independent of any organizations with which she is affiliated, and should not be construed as professional advice.
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:12 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Entangled, 2010 handbuilt porcelain, cone 6 glaze Kate MacDowell sculpts partially dissected frogs, decaying bodies with exposed skeletons, and viscera invaded by tentacles or ants. It's the imagery of nightmares, death metal music videos, or that tunnel scene in...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:49 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dataviz
These animations aren't your typical PBS fare - they're animated scientific posters.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:54 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books & Essays
This little video from Abebooks is the closest I've ever gotten to flipping through a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus. What a truly weird book. I particularly love it when the staid narrator reveals his "favorite" illustration - a roller...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:15 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Events
What with all the buzz surrounding Bjork's Biophilia project, science films are so hawt right now! Don't know what I'm talking about? Then check out this weirdness: Yeah. . . okay! Anyway, some other science/film folks, the crew over at...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:51 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:34 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
If this luminous, high-definition, time-lapse film of Arctic skies and seas by Norwegian photographer TSO (Terje Sorgjerd) doesn't vaporize your stress in under three minutes, I don't know what will. Be sure to click the video controls to view full-screen...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:42 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:02 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
"Paperwork Explosion" - creepy techno-utopian propaganda from IBM
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:06 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
The making of an hourglass: The Hourglass from Ikepod on Vimeo. "Director Philip Andelman traveled to Basel, Switzerland, to document the designer's modern take of the classic hourglass inside the Glaskeller factory. Each hand made hourglass comprises highly durable borosilicate...
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