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bioephemera is art + biology - everything from representations of science in art and literature to the neuroscience of aesthetics.
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Category: Books
If I weren't so darn busy, I'd be tempted to read this book: As you can tell from the photo, I've been spending a lot of time in the library. Sorry for the low post volume - I have quite...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:10 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Seen in Cambridge, MA: a red-eyed skeletal zombie hippo. Paint-your-own ceramics was never like this when I was a kid!...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Talk about ephemera - Willy Chyr makes bioart out of balloons! Check out his installation Balluminescence: Balluminescence - Lights, Balloons, Jellyfish! was commissioned by Science Chicago and was created for the program's finale signature event - LabFest! Millennium Park....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
From the wonderful blog Letters of Note: in 1957, schoolboy Denis Cox generously shared his rocket blueprints with "A Top Scientist" at Australia's Woomera Weapons Research Establishment. The important stuff (Rolls Royce jet engines, "Air Torpeados") is all there,...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:01 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: Yikes!
Has your week been like this, too? I'm just checking. . . "Fish in a squirrel suit" by Slightly Curious. Via Regretsy....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:29 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conspicuous consumption
According to reader Milde, L.A. Burdick's is a "serious chocolate experience." Little did I know she was right - this place even has coffin-shaped chocolate boxes for Halloween. And little chocolate ghosts. Adorable! Of course, if you really want...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:56 AM • 2 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: Artists & Art
From Inhabitat: Artist Brandon Jon Blommaert's recycled trash robots (yes, they're real sculptures) lay waste to Photoshopped landscapes. Check out his flickr page for more - and a "making of" series of photos showing how he built these steampunky...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Photographer Kevin Van Aelst's work is clever, funny, and meticulous to a fault.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:46 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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