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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: Artists & Art
Daniel Margulies of the NeuroBureau, an open neuroscience community, shared this opportunity: The Brain-Art Competition 2011 Submission Deadline: 11:59PM CDT, Sunday, June 5th, 2011 Award Notification: June 28th, 9PM at the Cirque du Cerveau Gala (OHBM Annual Meeting), Musée National...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:52 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Citizen Science
Now this is just cruel: yesterday the Cambridge Science Festival kicked off - a week of science, sciart, sci-journalism and sci-education activities at MIT, Harvard, the Museum of Science, and surrounds. Am I going to be hanging out all day...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:23 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
"Reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments." - Jonathan Haidt, "The New Science of Morality", invoking the work of H. Mercier and D. Sperber. (the whole talk is really...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:34 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
I've been remiss in not recommending my temporary Scienceblogs scibling "Art and Science Learning" to those of you who are, like me, interested in the sciart intersection. However, I have to say I am not 100% behind its latest (and...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:47 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Wow - my post about unhappy bio grad students is getting massive traffic. (Hi SlashDotters and StumbleUpon-ers!) Mike the Mad Biologist, my original inspiration, has responded here and here to all the buzz. I pretty much said everything I wanted...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:40 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Like Glee meets Government! Except more serious. And no pop music.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:22 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
I guess it's not surprising, my dopamine is rising And my glutamate receptors are all shot I'd surely be bemoaning all the extra serotonin But my judgement is impaired and my confidence is not Allosteric modulation No Long Term...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:50 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
The Cyclotrope from tim Wheatley on Vimeo. The cyclotrope is a cycle of 18 images that is spun at a certain speed so that the frame rate of the camera filming it gives the illusion of animation. A humble suggestion...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:43 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Book Reviews
Psychologist Robert Kurzban would totally give me an F in his class, but I agree with his hilarious new book anyway
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:23 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Caption for non-PhDs: aren't these sciencepunk brain ice cubes awesome? BRAIN FREEZE! Caption for PhDs: Still hoping against hope to celebrate your thesis defense in style? Try cocktails with roughly anatomically accurate cortical ice cubes. [Look at it this...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:37 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
