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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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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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Randy Hage's Manhattan Wonder Cabinet

Category: Artists & Art

Nick's Luncheonette Randy Hage Via the eye-candy blog How to Be a Retronaut (thanks Miles for first sending me a link there), the painstakingly accurate miniature Manhattan streetscapes of LA artist Randy Hage are half-toy, half-historical document - a...

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Ribbons of water: vintage maps of the wandering Mississippi

Category: Ephemera

Via Alexis Madrigal's Mississippi explainer at the Atlantic, this beautiful map of the Mississippi's historic meanderings is like a carelessly draped cluster of silk ribbons. Madrigal says, If the Mississippi were allowed to do what it wanted, what is...

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Photopic Sky Survey: the Milky Way, as it was meant to be seen

Category: Web 2.0, New Media, and Gadgets

If you haven't already seen the Photopic Sky Survey, you really should. Nick Risinger toured the world's least light-polluted sites to photograph and stitch together this 37,440 exposure, 5000 megapixel image of the night sky. I honestly don't think...

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Subway lines as cello strings; an atlas of loneliness

Category: Artists & Art

New York as a stringed instrument, New York as quest for love. Is there any limit to the ways data can be "mapped"?

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Body Voyaging: Fantastic Anatomical and Physiological Journeys Through the Body

Category: Biology

Observatory is hosting another great event tonight: From Heumann Heilmittel, "Eine Reise durch den menschlichen Körper" (1941) Body Voyaging: an illustrated lecture with Kristen Ann Ehrenberger Date: TONIGHT, Monday, January 17th Time: 8:00 PM Admission: $5 Presented by Morbid Anatomy...

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Weekend video break: Journalism in the age of data

Category: Blogosphere

Knight Fellow Geoff McGhee created this polished video documentary series about how data visualization is infiltrating and transforming journalism. Interviews with Many Eyes creators Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, Amanda Cox of the New York Times, and other dataviz...

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The Human Industrial Palace In Action

Category: Biology

Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace] from Henning Lederer on Vimeo. So awesome! Fritz Kahn's poster reimagined as an animation by Henning Lederer. Via Bora....

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DIY: Vintage-style wooden MRI brain map

Category: Biology

Somebody in charge of pulling flickr illustrations for Wired's website has a good eye - they used this photo by Stephen Hampshire. A quick visit to flickr, and it turns out the photo is of Hampshire's homemade version of...

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"Google had never done anything in the Amazon before, but it made perfect sense"*

Category: Blogosphere

*That's the Amazon rainforest - not Amazon.com! Check out this interview from MAKE with Google's Rebecca Moore, who helped an Amazon chief use Google Earth to fight illegal logging....

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