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The Fifty Most Sequenced Bacterial Genomes

Nick Loman listed the fifty most sequenced bacterial genomes according to NCBI. A reader at Nick's blog came up with an improved list--one that reflects the genomes for which we actually have data (depending on who is doing the sequencing, a project will be registered with NCBI, often months before any sequencing is done). Here's the 'improved' top twenty: 173 Escherichia coli 82 Salmonella enterica 78 Staphylococcus aureus 69 Propionibacterium acnes 56 Streptococcus pneumoniae 56 Enterococcus faecalis 45 Bacillus cereus 42 Mycobacterium tuberculosis 36 Vibrio cholerae 29 Pseudomonas…

The nature of writing

I really don't know what to make of this paper I just stumbled upon, The Structures of Letters and Symbols throughout Human History Are Selected to Match Those Found in Objects in Natural Scenes: ...Our first result is that these three classes of human visual sign possess a similar signature in their configuration distribution, suggesting that there are underlying principles governing the shapes of human visual signs. Second, we provide evidence that the shapes of visual signs are selected to be easily seen at the expense of the motor system. Finally, we provide evidence to support an…

Come the reductionist revolution....

There is an important paper out on calculating heritability (JAVA applet). Heritability is an important and misunderstood concept. Some people have argued that heritability is fallacious reification, a biostatistical construct which has no real relevance (or reality) outside of its utility in quantitative genetic models. But its entwinement with various concepts within evolution and genetics means it can't be ignored, love it or hate it.1 Heritability is the proportion of phenotypic variation within a population that is attributable to genotypic variation. This has two quick…

Godless perspective

Data from The American Religious Identification Survey is floating around the blogosphere right now. One of the points noted is that the number of Americans who avow "No Religon" has gone from 8.2% to 14.1% of the American population between 1990 and 2001. Now, one meme floating around is conflating this increase with an increase in the number of atheists. But, one has to be careful, just because someone rejects organized religion does not imply that they reject theism ( belief in a personal God). In fact, just because someone rejects theism does not imply they reject organized religion (…

Don't tell the stupid cuckold!

Here is a summary of findings by a paper which suggests that the vast majority of genetic counselors tend to err on the side of protecting a mother's privacy if her husband is not the father of her child. Here is an important point though: It is much more likely that bringing up the possibility prior to testing will put the woman in the very position we are trying to protect her from. ... If, as I have suggested, the counselor plans to attempt to keep paternity but not personal genetic information from the man, it is probably better not the discuss the issue ahead of time. The problem is…

The hot blooded evolve faster? (proteins that is)

Effects of metabolic rate on protein evolution: Since the modern evolutionary synthesis was first proposed early in the twentieth century, attention has focused on assessing the relative contribution of mutation versus natural selection on protein evolution. Here we test a model that yields general quantitative predictions on rates of protein evolution by combining principles of individual energetics with Kimura's neutral theory. The model successfully predicts much of the heterogeneity in rates of protein evolution for diverse eukaryotes (i.e. fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)…

Vitamin D does a body good

I've spoken about Vitamin D a fair amount on this blog before. Not only have I presented it as a major selective pressure for light skin in the northern latitudes after the switch to agricultural lifestyles (and the concomitant nutrient deprivations due to reliance on a predominantly starch diet), but I recently found that I myself suffered from a lack. Though I eat a salad most days, and try to eat meats and fish, the fact that I have dark skin and live at a relatively high latitude and in a region characterized by cloudy winters was a combination which naturally led to low levels of…

Taste & genetics

The Associated Press has an article on the genetics of taste and its relevance in everyday life. I've posted on the genetics of taste in the past, it's an interesting topic. Basically, you have three phenotypes: Super-taster Taster Non-taster Until recently the "super-taster" category was unknown, the crude assays (e.g., tasting PTC doped paper) only distinguished between tasters and non-tasters. The inheritance pattern would have suggested a recessive pattern for the non-tasters, but the super-taster category suggests that we are simply seeing a more additive process where two "on"…

Thoughts from Kansas on The God Delusion

Josh Rosenau has a review of The God Delusion which is, I think, a little bit harder on Richard Dawkins than I. The comments are hopping, so you should check it out! Let me reiterate my general position re: Dawkins & The God Delusion: My own personal assessment of the universe as it is resembles that of Dawkins My own assessment of the nature of religious belief is similar to that of Dawkins, insofar as I believe it is a byproduct of proximate cognitive features which have their ultimate origins in our evolutionary history My own attitude is one of general hostility toward religious…

The War on Christmas: Who Is Leading?

By way of Scienceblogling PZ, I stumbled across a very interesting article by Max Blumenthal about the origins of the 'War on Christmas.' This passage stood out (italics mine): Following the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush's re-election, and the Republican sweep of Congress, Brimelow said conservative movement elites could no longer ignore the right-wing populism sweeping the nation. Suddenly the War on Christmas was gaining traction. "This issue became very popular in the conservative grassroots, so conservative media had to pay concession to it," he said. By 2005, Fox News personalities…

The McCain Mansions

I think we're up to nine McCain homes. It's so hard to keep track: And the Aristocrats have some clues that you might own too many houses. Then there's this one with a groovy soundtrack: Finally, some good, free advice: There's a pretty easy way for Obama to knock McCain back on his heels with this patriotism schtick he's been playing. Separate and apart from the doddering, lying, confused old man part, which will never stick so long as McCain has a supplicant press covering for him, you can hit him hard -- very hard -- but make it not look below the belt. A simple ad that puts it in a…

The Texas GOP Wants to Shrink Government to the Size Where It Can Fit in a Woman's Vagina

Movement conservative Grover Norquist is famous (or infamous) for his slogan, "Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub." (There are different versions of this saying). In response, some on the left will quip, when discussing the theopolitical right, that the theopolitical right wants to shrink government to the size where it will fit in the bedroom--or a woman's vagina. Sadly, by way of Digby, we find that this does appear to be the guiding principle for the Texas Republican Party (italics mine): Women seeking an abortion would have to first get an…

"The Public Option as a Signal"

Of course, it's not bad policy either. Anyway, Paul Krugman is exactly right on target: If progressives had real trust in Obama's commitment to doing the right thing, the administration would have broad leeway to do deals. But the president doesn't command that kind of trust.... So progressives have their backs up over one provision in health care reform that's easy to monitor. The public option has become not so much a symbol as a signal, a test of whether Obama is really the progressive activists thought they were backing. And the bizarre thing is that the administration doesn't seem to…

Not Exactly Like the Norman Rockwell Painting

Not a pro-health insurance company thug If you peek over at the sidebar, you'll notice that my photo is a copy of Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech. I'll turn the description over to driftglass: He's nervous. Really nervous.By his tan and his hands and his clothes, you can tell he's a working man. Everyone around him is wearing a tie; his collar is open.Those are his remarks there in his pocket, which he probably spent a long time writing out, tossing out, and then rewriting.He probably told his family that tonight he's gonna go down to the meetin' and give those Big Guys what 'fer.His…

Antibiotic Resistance Has Become a Legal Issue

I told you this would happen. I used to give a lot of talks about antibiotic resistance, and when I did so, I would often use a cartoon as a humorous way to portray the severity of the resistance problem: Sadly, this is no longer a laugh line: Former Cleveland Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius sued the team and the Cleveland Clinic on Friday, saying the team misrepresented the cleanliness of its training facility and blaming doctors with negligence over a staph infection in his right knee that kept him from playing last year.... Jurevicius has said he contracted staph following arthroscopic…

Salmonella, Shigella, and Lactose, Oh My!

It's never made much sense to me why the pathogenic bacteria Salmonella and Shigella (which is really E. coli) have lost the ability to use lactose (milk sugar). In Shigella, we know that when we restore some lost functions through genetic manipulation (e.g., cadaverine production), they actually prevent these altered Shigella from causing disease. But lactose seems to be a good sugar to be able to grow on--they're exposed to it from time to time (in infants). The genus Salmonella contains two species: S. enteriditis, which causes disease* and can't use lactose as a carbon source, and S.…

If Boston Plans on Taxing Non-Profits, Tax All Non-Profits

Every so often, Boston proposes raising the voluntary contributions it asks non-profit organizations to pay in lieu of property taxes (and other taxes), or instituting a consistent fee (right now, these contributions are negotiated with each institution). From The Boston Globe: After 14 months, a mayoral task force has nearly completed its work examining the city's uneven system of individual agreements with such institutions, under which they voluntarily pay cash and provide services in lieu of property taxes. Some pay millions; others pay significantly less. The city is pushing…

David Frum Makes a Stupid Argument-by-Authority About Healthcare

David Sirota was debating (although given that said 'debate' occurred on cable TV, that's probably far too genteel a word) David Frum about healthcare, when Sirota brought up the finding that 45,000 people in the U.S. die every year from a lack of health insurance. Frum's response is incredibly arrogant (go to the 4:00 mark): Sirota is absolutely right that Frum's discounting of the study with "I went to Harvard, believe me" is incredibly arrogant. But what's worse is what came first: "That number is not a reliable number, that number is an estimate."* And evolution is just a theory. Oops…

Reprints: An Interesting Way of Looking at Sharing Science-Related PDFs

One of the things I can't stand about non-open access publishers is that federally-funded scientific results (federally subsidized in multiple ways) are locked behind a publisher's for-profit firewall. Given the high prices of journals and universities' need to cut expenditures, library budgets are getting slashed. So what's a scientist to do? Have a colleague whose institution has a subscription send her the pdf of the article. Needless to say, this upsets the non-open access publishers greatly. UR STEALIN TEH SCIENTISMZ!! Over at Ars Technica, John Timmer makes a good analogy to…

TEH SWINEY FLOO!!: Does Anyone Remember Such Massive Absenteeism in Schools?

For anything? Excluding very rare norovirus outbreaks, I can't remember ever reading about school absentee rates like these from Grafton, MA: Grafton High School closed early today after more than a third of its students and more than a quarter of its staff stayed home sick. It is the only school in the state to close, according to public health and education departments, but absenteeism has been elevated some communities across the state. At the beginning of the school year, state officials urged schools to close only as a last resort during flu season and instead focus on keeping sick…

Goofy gadget, falsified by SCIENCE!

RCA (which is not the old and reputable company I remember, but has gone out of business and its name sold to anyone with the right amount of cash) recently announced a device called the Airnergy harvester, which supposedly simply soaks up the RF energy emitted by WiFi devices in the neighborhood and uses it to charge portable batteries. Wow, what an idea…but a moment's thought makes it clear it can't work. My local wireless router simply can't be pumping out that much energy, or it would an awesomely wasteful device, and there can't be that much power floating free in every few cubic inches…

Why Not Outsource the Entire Federal Government to Goldman Sachs

At this point, diversity in the Obama administration means you've never worked for Goldman Sachs. Meet the newest Obama nominee, Gary Gensler for head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (italics mine): Gensler helped create this financial crisis when he was in the Treasury Department back in the Clinton era, when bipartisan cooperation with Wall Street lobbyists was all the rage. Sanders gets right to the point: "Mr. Gensler worked with Senator Phil Gramm and Alan Greenspan to exempt credit default swaps from regulation, which led to the collapse of AIG and has resulted in the…

Krugman Discusses the Mad Biologist: Now If I Had Only Put That on My Blog

I think the creationist controversy sheds a lot of light on the conservative movement as a whole. So, in the comments of this post by Brad DeLong that wondered how in the hell anyone still seriously argues on behalf of the Treasury View in economics, I remarked that it reminded me of creationists: ....in biology, for example, the profession itself does not lend credence to creationism. The fundamentals, as opposed to the cutting edge (or arguments about the relative importance of various phenomena), are not in question. These are political controversies, not scientific ones. That is,…

Conservative Oppositional Disorder Harms Public Health

In the midst of the Conservative War on Contraception, there's a broader assault by conservatives on public health initiatives. At Salon, Alex Koppelman does a good job rebutting the conservative opposition to vaccination, infection control, and figuring out if someone has AIDS (further fisking is available from IDSA). There's no reason to repeat this fine work, but it really does highlight just how unserious movement conservatives have become. This mindless backlash reminds me of Michael Fumento, and his opposition to influenza prevention: In my post, I challenged him to offer alternative…

42nd Street/Grand Central Subway Art 2, Detail 2

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 2. Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway between the subway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Subway Art 2, Detail 1

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 1. Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway between the subway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Station Subway Art 2

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, right side. Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway between the subway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Station Subway Art 1, Detail 5

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 4 (left to right). Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Station Subway Art 1

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, right side. Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway between the subway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Station Subway Art 1, Detail 4

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 4 (left to right). Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Station Subway Art 1, Detail 3

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 3 (left to right). Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Station Subway Art 1, Detail 2

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 2 (left to right). Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway…

42nd Street/Grand Central Station Subway Art 1, Detail 1

tags: Grand Central Station, 42nd Street, Fast Track and Speedwheels, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Fast Track and Speedwheels, 1990. Mixed-media sculptures in the passageway between the S and 4, 5, 6 lines in NYC's Grand Central Subway station, detail 1 (left to right). Artist: Daniel Sinclair. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view]. Dan Sinclair's Fast Track and Speedwheels are assemblages crafted from bright metallic sections that include wavy aluminum sheets, steel wheels, brass disks, copper springs and wires. Installed within a long passageway…

Birdbooker Report 102

tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, animal books, natural history books, ecology books "How does one distinguish a truly civilized nation from an aggregation of barbarians? That is easy. A civilized country produces much good bird literature." --Edgar Kincaid The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of a wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that currently are, or soon will be available for purchase. This report is written by one of my Seattle birding pals and book collector, Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, and is edited by me and published here for your information and…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 36

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #36, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 34

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #34, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 32

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #32, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. As you can see, even these artworks are not immune to the attentions of those who seek to destroy beautiful things. Oculus is located…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 31

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #31, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 30

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #30, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 29

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #29, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 28

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #28, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 27

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #27, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Mystery Bird: Eastern Screech-Owl, Otus asio

tags: Eastern Screech-Owl, Otus asio, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Eastern Screech-Owl, Otus asio, photographed at the Unitarian/Universalist Fellowship building in Manhattan Kansas [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow] Image: photographed by Thomas Manney, this image appears here at the suggestion of Dave Rintoul. Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification. [Mystery bird] photographed at the Unitarian/Universalist Fellowship building in Manhattan Kansas [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow] Image: photographed by Thomas…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 26

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #26, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 25

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #25, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 24

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #24, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 23

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus #23, 1998. Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 22

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #22 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 21

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #21 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…

Chambers Street/WTC Subway Art, 20

tags: Chambers Street, Park Place, World Trade Center, Oculus, Andrew Ginzel, Kristin Jones, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC Oculus, #20 (1998). Stone mosaic on walls throughout Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel. Artists: Andrew Ginzel & Kristin Jones. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 January 2009 [larger view]. Oculus is located in passageways under the World Trade Center and was largely untouched by the events of 9/11. Oculus will also be…