Art
grrlscientist | October 27, 2006
A common garter snake, Thnmonphis sirtalis,
with a hitchhiking ladybug, Hippodamia convergens,
on its nose. This photo was taken in northeastern North Dakota.
Image: Justawriter.
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tags: snake, common garter snake, ladybug, insect, reptilia, zoology
grrlscientist | October 26, 2006
Ladybug species, Neoharmonia venusta,
which was photographed near "the willows,"
a hot birding area at Anahuac NWR, Texas.
Image: Biosparite.
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tags: ladybug, insect, Coleptera, zoology
dmunger | October 25, 2006Everyone knows the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words." Bound by that axiom, magazines, newspapers, and most of all, TV, bombard us with pictures every day. The latest hot internet properties aren't text-based sites like Google but picture-based sites like Flickr and YouTube. Psychological research backs this up: we do remember pictures more readily than we remember words.
The next question, of course, is "why?" Recent research by Paul W. Foos and Paula Goolkasian is beginning to shed light on the difference between memory for pictures and words. They had previously found that while…
grrlscientist | October 25, 2006
Green Tree Frog, Hyla cinerea.
Nelson Farms Preserve, Katy Prairie Conservancy, Texas.
NABA Butterfly Count, 4 September 2006.
Image: Biosparite.
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tags: green tree frog, frog, Amphibia, zoology
grrlscientist | October 24, 2006
This is a pictorial tutorial on distinguishing
the Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis sennae (individual on left),
from the Sleepy Orange butterfly, Eurema nicippe (group on right).
This photo was taken just north of US 290 on the east side of Roberts Road at a vacant lot posted "For Sale" for commercial development. Puddling is a social activity of butterfly species. The butterflies are fortifying themselves with dissolved salts from the soil.
Image: Biosparite.
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grrlscientist | October 22, 2006
The latest spectacular image from the Hubble Space Telescope: the sharpest picture ever of the merging galaxies known as the Antennae. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies may be doing something very similar in about 4 billion years.
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tags: galaxies, astronomy, "outer space", science
grrlscientist | October 22, 2006
Clouded Sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice,
nectaring at the garden of the (now defunct) Tierra de los Suenos
Bed and Breakfast near Patagonia, Arizona, mid-July 2003.
Image: Biosparite.
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tags: butterfly, clouded sulfur butterfly, insect, lepidoptery, zoology
grrlscientist | October 22, 2006A friend emailed this picture to me, so I am sharing it with you -- just to let you know that I am here and thinking about all of you. This image has inspired me to share some images with you throughout the day today. I hope that you enjoy them!
Male Indian Peafowl, Pavo cristatus, in courtship display.
Orphaned image.
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tags: peacock, birds, biology, photography, ornithology,…
pharyngula | October 7, 2006
I'm impressed with how effectively the visuals tell the story.
(hat tip to Hank Fox)
pharyngula | September 30, 2006
Charity and art come together in a project to create structures out of canned food, which are then donated to food banks.
I fear I don't have a big enough supply of canned food to pull this off at my house, though, and I don't think we have the space, either.
pharyngula | September 26, 2006One has to wonder how fundies react to the images enshrined on the floor of the state capitol building (you can also see a more panoramic view here).
pharyngula | September 16, 2006For a rather different kind of squid, here's a pretty image. There's also a mammal in the picture, which I understand some people might find not quite safe for work, so don't click through unless you can handle viewing an exposed superficial epithelium.
pharyngula | September 8, 2006Every week, someone finds something that reminds them of me, and they send it off in an email. I think that every day someone strolls through a fish market and the PZ-spot in their brain lights up like a Tesla coil, triggering odd associations that can only be relieved by grounding them out in an email message. Some examples are below the fold.
A reader got a nice 60s vibe off this image, and thought it was perfect for me. Or maybe it was the octopus…
This is a jigsaw puzzle spotted at COSI:
Phil saw an episode of Cthulhu's Clues on his hotel TV, and of course he thought of me.
Hillary…
pharyngula | September 8, 2006The latest issue of Science has a fascinating article on Exotic Earths—it contains the results of simulations of planet formation in systems like those that have been observed with giant planets close to their stars. The nifty observation is that such simulations spawn lots of planets that are in a habitable zone and that are very water-rich.
(click for larger image)Final configuration of our four simulations, with the solar system shown for scale. Each simulation is plotted on a horizontal line, and the size of each body represents its relative physical size (except for the giant planets,…
pharyngula | September 3, 2006
If you've ever wondered what the heck Behe was smoking when he claims there are literal trucks trundling about on literal highways with literal traffic signals inside of cells, well, I don't have an answer for you…but there is a wonderful Flash movie that will show you the Inner Life of a Cell so you can see what "molecular machines" look like, more or less. It's a spectacular show. What you'll see is the series of events that transpire when a lymphocyte encounters a cell surface signal that triggers emigration out of a capillary and into other tissues; it zooms rather abruptly from a…
pharyngula | September 2, 2006MinnObserver sent me this photo from the state fair: even here in the midwest, people are gluing seeds into the form of very angry octopuses. Portents? Omens? Subconscious resonance with the Great Old Ones? Who knows.
Also, Mark Chu-Carroll finds a similarly ominous sculpture. It looks to be in the strange genre of cyclopic cephalopods.
pharyngula | August 28, 2006
Somebody has a weird obsession with hybridizing terrestrial and aquatic animals, but even more strangely, there isn't a single cephalopod in the whole collection.
pharyngula | August 28, 2006Plans for my army of zombie cephalopod-cyborgs proceed apace. First target: Holland!
Go ahead, open the dikes—nothing will stop them.
(via My Confined Space)
pharyngula | August 24, 2006Here's an idea. If I'm worried that my wife would object to squid art, I could ease her into the idea by first exposing her to rooms with an arthropod theme. As another advantage, when I opened the door to salesmen and Jehovah's Witnesses, they'd see giant spiders clinging to the walls and run away.
pharyngula | August 24, 2006Oooh, I love this idea: art prints on a plastic adhesive that you just stick on the wall. They've got squid art! Unfortunately, they've also got a hefty price, and doubly unfortunately, my wife has this annoying thing called "taste" which precludes me slapping squid up everywhere in my house.
(via the aptly named Squid)