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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: Blogosphere
From Linda Holmes, a poignant post about how the deluge of information makes it impossible to scratch the surface in a single lifetime: there are really only two responses if you want to feel like you're well-read, or well-versed in...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:34 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:19 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books & Essays
O designer-readers who like to work and play with Photoshop, this contest may be up your alley: Quirk Books, the outfit behind Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has joined with Bridgeman Art Library to invite submissions for its "Art...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:06 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Lest any of my faithful readers think they're the only ones whose wonderful linky suggestions I don't seem to get around to posting, my boyfriend sent me this and I didn't post it, and apparently it's on the Daily...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:03 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Her hair was probably falling out anyway, but it's the thought that counts. Right?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:57 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Gratifyingly, my post on Nabokov and Gould has generated interesting feedback, including this post by Jonah Lehrer, who expands on Nabokov's own opinion of how his science informed his art. (Let's just say he and Gould didn't see eye-to-eye.) The...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:29 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Gould didn't think Nabokov was a scientific innovator - yet a new genetic study shows the author of Lolita was right all along about blue butterfly migration to the New World.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Littademia
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Here are some essay links I've had open as tabs in my browser for over a week, waiting to be posted. Unfortunately, I don't have time to do the extensive commentary they deserve, so I'm admitting that, and just posting...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:13 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books & Essays
Because people have been discussing Google ngrams a lot, and because there are always major caveats to new datamining methodologies, I have to link Natalie Binder's excellent series of posts urging caution, not only about the methodology, but about assuming...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
