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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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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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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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"Starry Night" - in Bacon

Category: Yikes!

From instructables user Copper Twist, this impressionist masterpiece of bacon is both biological and ephemeral (euw). What would Van Gogh say? Why do I feel if Van Gogh were alive today, he might be Vegan? Via Chow Bella, via...

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Monster with Heart

Category: Artists & Art

The grotesque letterpress heartmonster needs to be cuddled.

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A biologist's mother's day

Category: Health

Thanks moms! Slightly more than half of everything we are we owe to you. :) Song by cadamole - late of the St. Patrick's Day song....

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Kids love to be terrified - especially by a T. rex

Category: Biology

Oh, to be eight years old again, and oh-so-eager to suspend all disbelief. . . this video had me laughing in pure delight: The baby T-Rex, which you can obviously tell is an actor (see the legs?) is touring Australian...

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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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Theories of International Politics and Zombies

Category: Book Reviews

It's the very last installment of Zombiefest - one more book review, this time for one I heartily recommend! Daniel Drezner, a professor of international politics at Tufts, prefaces his new book about zombies with an unexpected vignette -...

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The Zombie Autopsies

Category: Yikes!

Shambling, slowly disintegrating zombies aren't good for much - but maybe they're helpful for teaching neurobiology? The Zombie Autopsies with Steven Schlozman, MD from GCP authors on Vimeo. It is all about braaaaiiiiiinnns, after all. . . . Read all...

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