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Turtles I Have Recently Seen
TURTLES! A section of the montage that's being prepared for the Tet Zoo Big Book (larger version viewable at my patreon ). Image in-prep, by Darren Naish. Every now and again – I would guess once every four months or so – I experience Turtle Guilt... […]Keep reading » Rosetta Stones
Visiting Mount Saint Helens This Summer? Getcher Guides Right Here!
Oh, hai, it's getting to be that time of year when you've got a greater than 10% chance to actually see Mount St. Helens when you visit! Were you planning a trip to the Pacific Northwest? Wanting to swing by and visit our most explosive attraction? […]Keep reading »Cross-Check
Book by Biologist Jerry Coyne Goes Too Far Denouncing Religion, Defending Science
Do we really need another book telling us how awful religion is? Biologist Jerry Coyne apparently thinks so. In Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible , he berates not only religious believers but even “accomodationists,” non-believers who think science and faith can find common ground. […]Keep reading »Symbiartic
Brachiosaurs at Dusk
Paleoartists like muralist-illustrator Stevie Moore are not only enabling us to see dinosaurs anatomically correctly; they are also giving us magnificent visions of these animals living within the full beauty of nature. I don't know if I will ever tire of seeing dinosaurs and other extinct animals in the full variety of lighting that the sky has to offer. […]Keep reading »Roots of Unity
When the Mona Lisa Is NP-Hard
I’ve always thought the Mona Lisa would be better as a connect-the-dots puzzle, haven’t you? Luckily for us, mathematician Robert (Bob) Bosch and computer scientist Tom Wexler of Oberlin College are pioneering a technique to turn your favorite masterpiece into a tangle of dots and crossing lines. […]Keep reading »Symbiartic
Learning Anatomy with Candy
Glasgow University medical student Michael McCormick is making sweet diagrams of organs, tissues, and molecules out of candies, cookies, and fruit. He shares his creations with the world on Instagram as candyanatomy . "Aero-Oli" #CandyAnatomy #candycopyright #medschool #anatomy #aero Follow: @candyanatomy A photo posted by @candyanatomy on Mar 16, 2015 at 4:23am PDT In the trenches of medical school, McCormick found himself finding study inspiration in everyday objects, noticing how a fried egg candy looked like a cell, for instance. […]Keep reading »- Unofficial Prognosis
A Graduating Medical Student's Final Reflections: Running in the Right Direction
Two years ago, during my second year of medical school, my classmates and I sat in cramped auditorium chairs as our instructor presented us with a clinical scenario. We were learning about arrhythmias, and our instructor flipped through slides of different ECG patterns, asking how we would respond to each. […]Keep reading » Symbiartic
Wrapped in the World
C é line Semaan of Slow Factory has teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund to to launch Petit Atlas , a sustainable clothing collection inspired by images of the Earth itself. Using NASA satellite imagery, the collection features traditionally-dyed silk of islands, a phytoplankton bloom and even a volcano, all seen from space. […]Keep reading »Plugged In
[Report] Their Rates Might Be Higher, But Germans Pay Less Than Americans for Electricity
Germans easily pay twice as much as many Americans for a kilowatt-hour of electricity. But, German households actually pay less per month on their power bills according to analysis published this week by Craig Morris at the German Energy Transition (Energiewende). […]Keep reading »Cocktail Party Physics
Physics Week in Review: May 30, 2015
First up: feast your eyes on this Stunning, Multi-Wavelength Image Of The Solar Atmosphere , courtesy of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, showing a brilliant array of “coronal loops,” magnetic fluxes which form around sunspots and extend into the solar atmosphere. […]Keep reading »
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