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Category: Science in Culture & Policy
Apparently these were issued back in April, but I didn't see them until today: energy conservation stamps. They're cute, except the thermostat (second stamp from bottom, viewer's right) looks like a big green alien eye. Stamps design by illustrator...
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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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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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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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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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Category: Biology
Animated Anatomies, a new show at the Perkins Library at Duke University, explores the tradition of fold-out or pop-up paper anatomical diagrams: Animated Anatomies explores the visually stunning and technically complex genre of printed texts and illustrations known as...
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Category: Yikes!
I was playing The Fracking Song last night about midnight, and my boyfriend was grooving to it. At the end he asked, "what was that about?" "Uh. . . fracking." "Which kind of fracking?" Yes, we are a BSG...
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Category: Destinations
Miracle of Science: the Cambridge bar around the corner from MIT, where the menu is a (pseudo) periodic table. May I recommend the grilled chicken salad with cilantro lime dressing, "Sc"?...
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Category: Education
So I ran across this thread, and it made me sad. (And no, not because it wasn't Ed Yong's blog, although that too.) It started off as a happy post: the author, Paula Chambers, is a PhD who began her...
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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...
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