Posts
February 22, 2013
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9:37 AM | #mindtunes
Last Friday, we asked Twitter for songs about the brain or the mind to add to a playlist the Barbican is putting together for Wonder. Below is a Storify of what people suggested. You can also hear the whole playlist on Spotify View as slideshow Wellcome Trust@wellcometrust Know any good songs about the mind or [...]
February 21, 2013
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4:17 AM | If I Had Google Glass
I am Canadian, not American, but... #ifihadglass I would record the collision of science and art through my painting, through research and through making something new. Sharing my perspective from my perspective on our greatest ability, the ability to make things that never before existed. #ifihadglass I would share creation.Google Glass looks cool with a hoodie. I own hoodies. - -Google's rules ask for a 50 word or less answer to what you would do if you had Google
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3:19 AM | The Coolest Photo My iPhone Never Took
Alex Wild over at Compound Eye is quick to point out with his Thrifty Thursday posts that great photos can be taken with relatively inexpensive equipment… IF you know what you’re doing. Here’s a great case in point: A few nights ago, I was strolling along a pedestrian mall in Boulder, CO with some friends. [...]
February 20, 2013
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9:16 AM | Researching brain power failure
ThInk columnist Professor Doug Turnbull is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research. Here he describes some of the neurological symptoms which may result from mitochondrial disease and explains why research in this area is both vital, and awash with challenges. The Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University is the [...]
February 19, 2013
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7:11 PM | Beatrice on Board
Well, hello there! Welcome to my first Symbiartic post. My name is Katie, and I write and illustrate a blog called Beatrice the Biologist. The most common question I get is, “Why is it called Beatrice the Biologist if your name is Katie?” A couple reasons: 1) Katie the Biologist has no ring to it. [...]
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2:07 PM | Bob Milne: Four Songs, One Mind.
Every musician’s dream is to travel the world, be critically acclaimed, and be able to listen to four different pieces of music simultaneously. Alright, so maybe that last part is a bit more of a pipe dream than the first two. However, this highly unusual simultaneous listening ability is a skill that ragtime pianist Bob [...]
February 18, 2013
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6:25 PM | Fish, Fungus and Flea Beetles
The Southern Ontario Nature & Science Illustrators’ (SONSI) exhibit is on right now in Toronto. I used to be webmaster-blogger for this amazing group – and I would be hard-pressed to find a more professional, fun, and above all talented group of illustrators anywhere. These are the people you want illustrating your ebooks on biodiversity [...]
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Throughout January, it seemed that alcohol – or rather, the lack of it – was on many people’s minds. Amongst my friends there were resolutions to cut back the hours spent in the pub, fundraising ‘Dryathlons’, and that immortal line, “I’m going to give up drinking this year”. Meanwhile, in the press, barely a week [...]
February 15, 2013
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12:23 AM | Chocolate Star Linzer Cookies
Next to cookies what Arthur likes best are my illustrations. He's probably my biggest fan; infinitely patient as I sit and draw when we are traveling together. This site would not exist without him. And he's an over-doer, so I made two kinds of cookies, not just one... These chocolate-lemon linzer star cookies like yellow stars in a dark sky are inspired by my astronomy friends at NASA Landsat (http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/) and Universe Today (http://www.universetoday.com/).
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February 14, 2013
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7:26 PM | Maple Leaf Linzer Cookies
It's Valentines Day and I decided to bake cookies for my husband, Arthur. Linzer cookies are everywhere right now. The cafes and grocery stores in town are full of heart-shaped, jelly-filled, red and white cookies. Now, that's sweet, but my honey likes maple. It's his favorite form of sugar. So for him, I made a twist on the usual Linzer cookies, and made Maple Linzer Cookies...Maple Cookies3c flour1/2 tsp salt1 c butter1/2 c sugar1/2 c brown sugar1 egg1/2 c maple syrupMaple
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4:44 PM | How to Mend a Broken Heart
Listen up, Lonely Hearts Club. Before you get all frothy about the holiday that rubs salt in the wounds of your failed attempts at love, take a page out of Beth Croce’s book on How to Mend a Broken Heart, will ya? Because I’m sure that all you need to cauterize the wound inflicted by [...]
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1:41 PM | Art Shedding Light on Vision
The place where art meets the science of perception is a fertile one for collaborations between artists and scientists. And Light Show at the London Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery captures this in a brilliant exhibition that makes your eyes …
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Above: An example of a Cyberball game (Credit: Anthony Delli Paoli) It’s Valentine’s Day – the worldwide festival of roses and romance. Not feeling warm and fuzzy? Unlucky in love? Fed up of being the third wheel? The sensation of being left on the sidelines, or worse purposefully excluded, while others enjoy themselves is almost [...]
February 13, 2013
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4:51 PM | ANNOUNCING THE #BLURCOMP 2013 WINNERS!
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Scientific imagery is a terrific way to draw people young and old into the fascinating worlds of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Thanks to all who contributed to the inaugural ASKlabs BLURcomp - we enjoyed seeing everybody’s collections of "beautiful science" #sciart images and we were amazed by the diversity of images
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3:53 AM | Science Scribe Animates Toxic Couches
The following is a guest post by Perrin Ireland, a Senior Science Communications Specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. If you were at any of the recent Science Online conferences, you may have noticed her in some sessions stationed at the front of the room, taking notes in her dynamic “sketchnoting” [...]
February 12, 2013
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7:51 PM | Merry Darwin Day 2013
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claimtoken-511b64f1b98a6 In the past year mindfulness meditation has received celebrity endorsement and a wave of media coverage. But even before this spike in popularity its effects were the subject of scientific study. Back in 2010, Fadel Zeidan and a team of researchers from University of North Carolina published a study of “the effects of brief [...]
February 11, 2013
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7:32 PM | What Would Audubon Paint Today?
There’s a fascinating science art exhibit going on at Ironton Gallery in Denver, Colorado through the 23rd of February. It features paintings by Kevin Sloan, whose work explores the tension between the natural world and what most would call the unnatural, highly altered man-made world (I would argue, and perhaps he would too, that it’s [...]
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12:38 PM | Illustrating Vaccine Stories on Symbiartic
Over the weekend I was blogging on Symbiartic, the art+science blog I share with Kalliopi Monoyios. My focus was on images that undercut the scientific message they are trying to relay, specifically using posts about vaccines and pro-vaccination outreach. The comment threads are pretty lively and the discussion continued on Twitter and G+. Head over to Symbiartic to read, Pro-Vaccine Communication: You're Doing It Wrong.- - - - - - - -Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite © to
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February 09, 2013
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9:40 PM | Recent writings…
Some of the recent writing shenanigans that I’ve been getting up to… I’ve written an article for the ever-brilliant (and now Wellcome Trust-funded) Guru magazine about the science of dancing. Guru is well worth a look if you haven’t checked it out yet… plenty of thought-provoking articles to get your teeth into (and it’s free [...]
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A particular drum I like to beat, is about science communicators learning how to use images effectively. Give your blog post illustration some thought. Don’t just stick any old candied cherry on the top of your post: make sure it’s the right maraschino cherry. Then add sprinkles. If you are having trouble finding good images [...]
February 07, 2013
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8:19 PM | The Intelligent Use of Animations
Or, in other words: Don’t do this. Do this: Remember websites in the early 90s with their scrolling banners, cheezy tiled backgrounds, and blinking and twirling text? No matter how swanky html5 or the next coding language is, I hope I never utter the phrase, “sure, why not?!” when it comes to use of special [...]
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http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/366/imaginary-beings-james-weavers-electron-micrographs-on-display-in-parisWe are excited to announce the outcome of ASKlabs’ inaugural #BLURcomp Pinterest contest calling for submissions of “beautiful science” Pinterest boards. The BLURcomp judges: Deborah Davidson, founder of Catalyst Conversations a monthly Boston-area meeting that presents artist and scientist collaborations; Drew Katz (@DogmyKatz) of the monthly New American
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3:36 PM | Support Science Studio
Because of the generosity of readers and the science community, The Febrile Muse was able to help support this fabulous project, spearheaded by Rose Eveleth and her colleagues Ben Lillie (Story Collider) and Bora Zivkovic (Scientific American). They are developing a web-home for the best of science multimedia.In support of science and science writing....and now....science multimedia! There are 9 more days to go on Kickstarter.
February 06, 2013
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12:27 PM | Beetle Valentine
Haldane geekery FTW!Cards and prints available in my shop!- - - - - - - -Original artwork on The Flying Trilobite © to Glendon Mellow under Creative Commons Licence.PortfolioBlogPrint ShopFind me on Symbiartic, the art+science blog on the Scientific American Blog Network!The Flying Trilobite
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Newborn babies, particularly those in intensive care, undergo many essential clinical procedures which would be painful for you or me. Yet until the late 1980s it was widely believed that newborn babies did not feel pain. This belief has changed considerably over the past 25 years, but exactly how pain is processed in infants is [...]
February 05, 2013
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Another awesome day for “New Form at the Farm: Anish Kapoor’s Dismemberment Site 1”. The Peabody Essex Museum was a popular destination on Saturday as the closing day of the "Hats" exhibit concurred with the opening day of the museum’s new exhibit, "Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India After Independence" and our screening.
A big THANKS to everybody who came along for our Saturday screenings at the Peabody Essex! We hope had as much fun as we did. Our
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2:26 PM | ScienceOnline-spiration.
ScienceOnline is a conference put on by Karyn Traphagen, Anton Zuiker, and our own Bora Zivkovic. I’ve been going since I first stumbled across it in 2010, making this year the fourth time I’ve attended. Over the years the conference has managed to expand and change while keeping its original spirit of inclusiveness, discovery, collaboration, [...]
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3:16 AM | Baby-Shakers Ball
Mediastinal Emphysema After Head-Banging in a Rock Artist: Pseudo Shaken-Baby Syndrome in Adulthood
There are many health hazards involved in heavy metal, including sexually transmitted disease, pyrotechnic burns, rabid bat ingestion and decapitation. But the genre’s most popular stage move also carries with it a considerable amount of medical risk. Studies stretching back to 1983 have reported some very scary side effects of head-banging, including deaths from carotid dissection and
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February 04, 2013
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The first of our series of posts examining the science and experience of pain, is from Sarah Chaney, PhD student at the UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines. Her research explores nineteenth century attitudes to what medical writers termed “self-mutilation”. Here she reveals how ‘alienists’ strived to understand this behaviour and why the explanation they [...]
