Art
pharyngula | February 8, 2007Carel Brest van Kempen is going to be at the Hogle Zoo on Friday evening, showing off his artwork. We have fond memories of the zoo; our apartment was just down the road from it in Salt Lake City when we lived there, and when the kids were at that perfect age to be enthusiastic about it all. (Salt Lake City, despite the weird religion everywhere, is actually a wonderful place to raise kids; when we atheists take over the country, we have to remember to build zoos and big parks and lots of schools in our cities.)
Admission is free from 7-9pm. If we were living a little closer, we'd be there—if…
pharyngula | February 7, 2007I really need the raptor suit. People would stop calling me a mild-mannered professor if I showed up at speaking engagements wearing one of those.
There is no need to speculate about exactly what they would call me…
pharyngula | February 6, 2007Here's a peek at a work in progress: it's got two kinds of cephalopods, Stethacanthus, and crinoids front and center. Delicious.
omnibrain | February 1, 2007You're kidding me right?
Kabbalists have attained them all. But don't take Perceiving Reality's word for it... Test the method of Kabbalah upon yourself, and discover the higher states of consciousness for yourself.
But wait... it gets better - they prove their point by using a random dot stereogram saying it comes from a higher dimension or something nonsensical.
Enjoy the video below the fold...
What a waste of 4 minutes... haha..
pharyngula | January 30, 2007Looking to slap more slogans on your Volvo, you latte-sippin', book-readin', over-evolved liberal, you? Here's a good selection of appropriate ones. These two are my favorites:
pharyngula | January 28, 2007Via Bioephemera, I've discovered this wonderful medical illustration blog, Street Anatomy. In particular, this article on the illustrator Cvetomir Georgiev has an amazing image of a dissected torso exposing a fetus in situ…and I've got a new desktop image. It's gorgeous stuff; people are so interesting on the inside.
pharyngula | January 25, 2007Chris Clarke has a new banner on Creek Running North, so of course he has to give us a grand tour of the Pleistocene. It's a Carl Buell original, you know — it's becoming quite the coup to get some Buell art on your blog.
grrlscientist | January 25, 2007
Herring Gull, Larus argentatus, eating a starfish.
Image: Drew Weber.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But if we decide to destroy these other life forms, the…
grrlscientist | January 22, 2007
The humping tortoises were spotted in the highlands of Santa Cruz, Galapagos Islands.
The male didn't seem at all put off by having half a dozen voyeurs taking photos. The
female was totally unimpressed by everyone, including the male, and wanted to go
back to sleep.
Image: Annie.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a…
omnibrain | January 22, 2007I ran across this blog which has all sorts of optical illusions, and they are not limited to the ones in psychology text books.
Check it out!
grrlscientist | January 21, 2007
Unknown beetle species on wild prickly rose
at the photographer's house in Eagle River, Alaska 25 June 2006
using a Canon 5D, with a 100mm macro lens.
Image: David Lee.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them…
grrlscientist | January 20, 2007
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio canadensis,
on rhubarb at the photographer's house in Eagle River, Alaska 22 June 2002.
Photo was taken using a Kodak DC-4800, some images with a lens adapter and a 7x or 10x (or both) lens, at full camera resolution (2160x1440).
Image: David Lee.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are…
grrlscientist | January 19, 2007
Bumble Bee, Bombus species,
on wild geranium at the Eagle River Nature Center in Alaska, 29 June 2002.
Photo was taken using a Kodak DC-4800, some images with a lens adapter and a 7x or 10x (or both) lens, at full camera resolution (2160x1440).
Image: David Lee.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world…
grrlscientist | January 19, 2007Lisa Gherardini was born in May 1479, and is thought to have been the second wife of Del Giocondo, a wealthy silk merchant, with whom she had five children. Giuseppe Pallanti found a death notice in the archives of a church in Florence that referred to "the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, deceased July 15, 1542, and buried at Sant'Orsola," the Italian press reported. Lisa was ill and windowed when she died at age 63. Sant'Orsola is near the San Lorenzo basilica. It is now in ruins.
"It was in this convent that Mona Lisa placed her youngest daughter Marietta, who later became a nun. And it…
grrlscientist | January 18, 2007
Calypso Orchid, Calypso bulbosa.
Photo taken on 26 May 2002 using a Kodak DC-4800, some images with a lens adapter and a 7x or 10x (or both) lens, at full camera resolution (2160x1440). This image was taken at the Eagle River Nature Center in Eagle River, Alaska.
Image: David Lee.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a…
grrlscientist | January 17, 2007
A prairie falcon, Falco mexicanus.
This photo was taken on Christmas Eve in north-central Kansas.
Image: David A. Rintoul.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But…
scientificactivist | January 17, 2007Some of the more insidious factors enabling the constant and dangerous advance of global warming are a lack of public awareness or acceptance and the feeling that it's not a problem relevant to my everyday life. One potentially effective way of tackling these particular issues, then, could be through art: specifically through large in-your-face, impossible-to-ignore, publicly-visible art projects designed to bring the issue to the forefront of the mind of the incidental viewer.
This is precisely the aim of the debut project of the Precipice Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to…
grrlscientist | January 16, 2007
A couple of grunion on a sandy beach, spawning.
The photographer said, "I like how colorful they turn out to be - honestly, when you're standing there looking at them late at night with flashlights they don't look much more than gray." This photo is one of a series.
Image: Carl Manaster.
As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We…