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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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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
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a link there), the painstakingly accurate miniature Manhattan streetscapes of LA artist Randy Hage are half-toy, half-historical document - a...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:41 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:34 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:27 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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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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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:58 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:05 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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