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a blog about the intersection of science, art, and culture by Jessica Palmer, PhD

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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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Sontagians vs. Kuhnians: what's a sciartist to do?

Category: Blogosphere

In a guest post at Scientific American, Rebecca Jablonsky says, Kuhn de-legitimized the understanding of science as implicitly including objective reality, leaving room for theory to de-stabilize rituals of practice and produce authentic innovation-something that is certainly prized in both...

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Miniature Fantasies: Paolo Ventura

Category: Artists & Art

L'Automaton #06, 2010 Paolo Ventura (zoom view available here) Artist-photographer Paolo Ventura constructs and photographs miniature, dreamlike scenes. His Winter Stories represent the reminisces of an old circus performer. Above, a scene from the Automaton series captures a mysterious,...

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Jordan Tiberio: a new pre-Raphaelite, or something edgier? Can't wait to find out

Category: Artists & Art

Untitled, from "The Others" Jordan Tiberio My favorite thing about the internet is serendipity. Click here, click there, and the next thing you know you're scrolling down the gallery of an 18-year-old photographer whose artistic sensibility seems equal parts...

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Happy Fourth of July

Category: Photography

Note: except for the fact that it was in Washington DC, I don't remember where I took this photo. . . :)...

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Monday stress vaccine: The Arctic Light

Category: Biology

If this luminous, high-definition, time-lapse film of Arctic skies and seas by Norwegian photographer TSO (Terje Sorgjerd) doesn't vaporize your stress in under three minutes, I don't know what will. Be sure to click the video controls to view full-screen...

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If the Founding Fathers wanted to visit Body Worlds. . .

Category: Artists & Art

in the 1760s, Honore Fragonard - cousin of the famous rococo painter - was stripping, dying, and drying bodies into anatomical sculptures that still survive today. A new book explores his world

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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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Postmortem sleeping beauties

Category: Ephemera

Through the end of May, UMBC's Albin O Kuhn gallery is hosting a large exhibition of postmortem daguerreotypes, death masks, coffin plates, etc. from the collection of Dr. Stanley Burns. Medical ephemera always have an emotional valence, because they...

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Muybridge: art, science, photography, & a weird name

Category: Artists & Art

I'm too busy to write anything remotely interesting right now, so thanks, NYT & Bay Citizen, for filling the gap with an article about how Eadweard Muybridge. Best known for photo sequences capturing running horses and athletes, Muybridge bridged (ahem)...

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Catherine Chalmers: the food chain is not a Hallmark card

Category: Artists & Art

Photos of predators and prey that play on our sympathies

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