Anatomy of Japanese folk monsters
Category: Art
In honor of its pure strangeness
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I write on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications. (Find clips here.)
I've also written three books, including Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral, which traces the strangest but most forgotten controversy in Darwin's career — an elemental dispute running some 75 years. Oliver Sacks found Reef Madness "brilliantly written, almost unbearably poignant." Check it out.
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Miniatur Wunderland -- Your ultimate toy train village, inc 'houses of bad reputation'
Category: Nota Bene
Maybe best argument yet for expanding the US rail system.
Posted by David Dobbs at 10:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Splendid sea photos by Nick Cobbing
Category: Art
Perhaps because I so enjoyed the time I spent at sea learning about fish, I particularly enjoyed this collection of Nick Cobbing's photos of ice, sea, and people who work them — scientists, fishermen, adventurers
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Brandon Keim on The Language of Horses
Category: Art
In a few slender leg bones and fragments of milk-stained pottery, archaeologists recently found evidence of one of the more important developments in human history: the domestication of horses. Unearthed from a windswept plain in Kazakhstan, the remains were about 5500 years old, and suggested that a nomadic people now called the Botai had learned to ride a creature that had captured mankind's imagination thousands of years earlier.
Posted by David Dobbs at 9:48 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Emotional Cartography
Category: Culture of science
Nold came up with the idea of fusing a GSR machine, a skin conductance monitor that measures arousal, and a GPS machine, to allow stress to be mapped to particular places. He then gets people to walk round and creates maps detailing high arousal areas of cities.
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The Kew's growing seed & pollen collection
Category: Art
Kew Gardens is trying to collect and bank the seeds and pollen from 10% of the world's plants -- a nice 21st-century continuation of a stunning collecting effort that started in the 1700s. The Guardian has put up a nice photo gallery of some of the seeds they've collected so far.
Posted by David Dobbs at 9:58 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Good dogs and good sheep": Sheep art explained again, this time by the shepherds
Category: Art
The shepherds responsible for the sheep art I featured earlier (i.e., Sheep + LEDs - Mona Lisa, Fireworks, etc.") explain...
Posted by David Dobbs at 2:02 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mona Lisa sheep and sheepdog art, explained
Category: Art
Were the makers of that sheepherding-art video I put in an earlier post (and further below in this post as...
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Sheep + LEDs = Mona Lisa, Fireworks, et alia
Category: Art
Who knew? You take a bunch of sheep, put LEDs on them, choreograph via sheepdogs: you can paint!
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Emma Livingston's photos
Category: Art
I find these photos by Emma Livingstone -- onen of 30 photographers singled out in a recent "rising photographer" story (hat tip: Kottke) -- especially fetching.
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