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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.
read the first BioE post.
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: 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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:55 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:48 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:51 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:47 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:21 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:29 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:51 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
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"?...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:24 AM • • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:57 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
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