Many real-life things to do in the next two days. Be back Thursday! In the meantime, enjoy this fantastic explanation of the brain:
Tag: science
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I have a habit of seeing a piece of furniture or a household artifact and constructing entire fictional rooms around them in my imagination. These DNA coffee tables go nicely in my imaginary science lab lounge.
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I don’t need any more encouragement to throw some sort of science themed party…yet here it is.
These would look great in some fresh punch!
Little fact: I’ve never actually experienced the phenomenon of “brain freeze.” I think I eat and drink too slowly.
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I keep seeing this image of Why Time Goes Slower as the Brain Gets Older popping up on my favorite blogs:
So I decided to check out some of Rhonald Bloomestijn’s other work. The style varies a great deal from one piece to the next, though he pulls it off quite nicely.
I’m slightly partial to the science illustrations, but there is some fabulous editorial work as well. See more here.
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Just the name stirred my excitement: The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results. I’m eagerly awaiting the inaugural issue.
The Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results (JSUR) is an open-access forum for researchers seeking to further scientific discovery by sharing surprising or unexpected results. These results should provide guidance toward the verification (or negation) of extant hypotheses. JSUR has two branches, one focusing on computational sciences and the other on the life sciences.
In a society where drug companies often have more say over publicized research than scientists, it’s nice to see a forum that will showcase anomalies. All too often we fall victim to confirmation bias; a convenient, comfortable killer of creativity.
Shake it up, boys and girls! Thinking outside of the box makes fantastic new boxes.
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I love old text books. Before my favorite thrift store shut down, I used to browse outdated volumes for the purpose of fun information and unintentional kitsch. But I never came across anything this amazing.
These come from Biology textbooks, 1972. Was being a science major back then really this psychedelic?
A uterus?
Wow…
See the rest of the set here.
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I just want to call attention to my favorite piece by Don Shank: Laboratory Still Life.
I really want a print of this.
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The media has been awash with sightings of Jesus in everything from pieces of toast to pelvic sonograms. I’d like to see an emerging buzz over hidden scientific images in religious artifacts.
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I can’t spend an extra penny right now, but I wish I could order one of these fantastic double helix necklaces from Morphologica.
Each piece starts as a sketch on paper, gets digitally modeled and laser cut.
Love the elegant lettering…
See more here.
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How could I not love these science themed holiday cookies?
Petri dishes!
Gel electrophoresis!
Gingerbread scientists!
Lab mice!
It looks like a lot of work went into these. Very nice.
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