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Category: Biology
Since I posted last night, DrugMonkey, Dr. Free-Ride, and the Intersection have also checked in with their POVs on this issue. I particularly liked this comment from Dr. Free-Ride: We get to foot the bill for the effects of other...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Do drug addicts "deserve" our research money?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:50 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
The very epitome of bioephemera, from Microbial Art: Artist JoWOnder presents a pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia created with bacteria. The demise of the painting is filmed using time-lapse photography, showing a story of death and creation of new life....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
One of the coolest, weirdest, worlds-colliding Day of the Dead artworks I've ever seen is this sculpture of a skeletal Teddy Kennedy. He's at a podium, open-jawed (no doubt haranguing other late Senators), accompanied by a skeletal dog. The paper...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
OK: I'm female AND a biologist, and looking at this one freaks ME out! I'm all in favor of appreciating the beauty of female anatomy and miracle of childbirth and all, but this pasty, long-limbed newborn doll with a detatchable...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Yikes!
Has your week been like this, too? I'm just checking. . . "Fish in a squirrel suit" by Slightly Curious. Via Regretsy....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:29 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conspicuous consumption
According to reader Milde, L.A. Burdick's is a "serious chocolate experience." Little did I know she was right - this place even has coffin-shaped chocolate boxes for Halloween. And little chocolate ghosts. Adorable! Of course, if you really want...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:56 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 -...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:16 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
I'm guessing this type of behavior is why this breed of bird is so rare: Thank 3QD for the laugh. ;)...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:07 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
