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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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SpaceChem!

Category: Education

A few months ago I got an email from Zachtronics, creators of the Codex of Alchemical Engineering, about the new indie game called SpaceChem. It was billed as "an obscenely addictive, design-based puzzle game about building machines and fighting...

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Pseudonymity: Five Reasons the New Scienceblogs/NG Policy is Misguided

Category: Blogosphere

In which I tell it like I see it. Oh, let's be honest, this is a total rant.

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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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Greg Dunn's golden neurons

Category: Artists & Art

Gold Cortex 16 x 20, 2010 Greg Dunn I used to have a beautiful gold Japanese folding screen, which was purchased by my great-grandmother's feisty sister on a trip in the 1920s. I loved the gold patina and the...

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Science visualization for scientists (for a change)

Category: Dataviz

These animations aren't your typical PBS fare - they're animated scientific posters.

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Bjork's Biophilia; Deadline for Imagine Science Film Festival

Category: Events

What with all the buzz surrounding Bjork's Biophilia project, science films are so hawt right now! Don't know what I'm talking about? Then check out this weirdness: Yeah. . . okay! Anyway, some other science/film folks, the crew over at...

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Rebuilding the past, virtually: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan

Category: Artists & Art

From the Smithsonian, a short video about using technology to virtually reassemble ancient art from fragments long carried away and dispersed: Majestic sixth-century Chinese Buddhist sculpture is combined with 3-D imaging technology in this exploration of one of the most...

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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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Cell Division - art for a good cause

Category: Biology

Cell Division IV Michele Banks DC area artist Michele Banks has donated one of her cell division watercolors to raise funds for art outreach. Check out the online auction - the painting is matted and framed and currently going...

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Art and religion for science policy?

Category: Events

A CSPO webcast entitled "New Tools for Science Policy" asks an interesting, if somewhat odd, question about science and art: "Can art and religion serve as methods for governing emerging science and technology?" More details: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 5:30...

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