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Category: Artists & Art
Heartbreaking photos of albatross chicks, by photographer Chris Jordan: These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The...
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Category: Biology
For all my microbiology/cell biology peeps, this could be a neat opportunity. ASCB has obtained a two-year stimulus grant from NIH to assemble an image library of the cell. According to Caroline Kane, project PI and professor emerita at UC-Berkeley...
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Category: Biology
Dominik Paquet Getting on this a little late, but the 35th annual Nikon Small World competition winners are out! See article and gallery from SciAm....
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Category: Yikes!
One of the arguments I generally make about Web 2.0 is that, if you are an organization who happens to screw up, you should apologize and move on. Don't try to cover your tracks or shut your critics up -...
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Category: Photography
This stunning photo was taken not by the Hubble space telescope, but by some guy (Rogelio Andreo) out in the desert. Sure, he needed several thousand dollars in digital camera equipment to do it, but still - that's well...
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Category: Blogosphere
Inspiredology rounds up tilt-shift photography from all over the web
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Category: Artists & Art
Tyrannosaurus photoventris Judith Hoffman, 2009 This is just awesome! It's a dinocamera from artist/photographer/metalworker/amateur time traveler Judith Hoffman: That's a lens cap/shutter on his navel. He takes pinhole photos of the late Cretaceous using paper negatives. Here's one of...
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Category: Artists & Art
From the 8/31/09 New Yorker: "Still, she recognized that the aesthetic enjoyment of dereliction was a recondite and ultimately unsustainable pursuit." Perhaps. I find these touching photos of Detroit's abandoned, overgrown houses from Sweet Juniper! disturbing because they are...
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Category: Artists & Art
Apparently package delivery service Sedex Express is quite similar to "your brain on drugs."
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Category: Artists & Art
Le Boson de Higgs and the Gaussian Goat
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