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April 23, 2013

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The Flying Trilobite http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com Art in Awe of Science by Glendon Mellow Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/flyingtrilobite

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12:02 PM | Wait, Electricity Isn’t Harmful To Health?

Sometimes, the list of things to be paranoid about feels endless: BPA in your water bottles, pesticides on your food, prescription drugs in your drinking water, and nanotechnology in your donuts. Luckily, most of these things will not statistically be responsible for your ultimate demise (you can likely credit heart disease and cancer for that). [...]

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8:58 AM | Stupid Asthma

Asthma Incubus Distressed © Glendon Mellow Woke up at 4am because it hurts to breathe. Stupid asthma. A painting I did in ArtRage, run through a filter in the Halftone app. - - - - - - - -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 http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com Art in Awe of Science by […]

April 21, 2013

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1:05 PM | Dimetrodon Sphinx, painted on my iPhone

Over the past few years, I've done more versions of this character and image than I can count. It's an exercise in poor background environment planning. These are no different. My idea for the Dimetrodon Sphinx goes back quite a ways, but at its root has to do with my love for blending mythology and prehistoric creatures, much like the chimaeric flying trilobites. If the Sphinx is an archetype of ancient tricks and wisdom, I thought a predatory dimetrodon is sufficiently old and strange […]

April 20, 2013

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1:39 PM | Oh, that? That's my ego.

Pic of my revamped studio space. The hovering blob of heavenly light is my ego, caught on film with a Victorian spiritual technique. Most people have guttering candle flames of light; but I'm an artist. The Flying Trilobite http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com Art in Awe of Science by Glendon Mellow Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/flyingtrilobite

April 19, 2013

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1:24 PM | Snails of Spring

Calvin has been meeting some of the ants and snails in the neighbourhood. The Flying Trilobite http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com Art in Awe of Science by Glendon Mellow Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/flyingtrilobite

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12:47 PM | How Do You Wear Your Anatomy?

Any evolutionary biologist will tell you that flight has evolved independently several times in the history of life on earth, but can they tell you how many times muscle leggings have evolved? We don’t generally talk fashion here at Symbiartic, but many consider high fashion to be art, so you’ll forgive me for a moment [...]

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8:42 AM | Stories from psychiatry’s past: ‘between danger and disease’

Research is gradually uncovering the intracacies of the relationship between our bodies and our brains, and it is clear that the former has more sway over our minds and mental state than is commonly acknowledged. But in the nineteenth century there were some strong and startingly ideas about the effects of bodies and bacteria on the brain. Jen Wallis reveals [...]

April 17, 2013

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7:43 PM | Who Needs a Paintbrush When You Can Use a Dead Fish?

James Prosek is a person who continually challenges the neat categories we create to delineate where one discipline ends and another begins. In his own words: I want to be able to be a writer and a painter and an illustrator and a sculptor and not have to be confined by the taxonomies of art [...]

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8:00 AM | Redefining gambling addiction

Completing the series of Packed Lunch talks at the Wonder Season, Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, founder and Director of the National Problem Gambling Clinic based in Soho, spoke about gambling, addiction and impulsive behavior. Emma Rhule was in the Barbican’s conservatory to hear what she had to say. Did you place a bet on last week’s [...]

April 16, 2013

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11:46 PM | Asparagus and Rubber Bands

Springtime and asparagus are synonymous for me, the change of the seasons marked in rubber bands. At the end of winter my jar of rubber bands disappears, consumed by binding half used bags of sugar and picnic lunches. Just…Read more ›

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8:12 AM | I did that. Did I?

BNA 2013: Festival of Neuroscience, which took place at the Barbican last week, brought together scientists from across the field for an exciting meeting of minds that combined a scientific conference with a public programme of events. A group of science writers from the Wellcome Trust attended the scientific conference. Here, Penny Bailey reports [...]

April 13, 2013

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5:07 PM | Don't Make Wombats Explode

This has been a public service announcement of The Flying Trilobite. - - - - - - - -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 http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com Art in Awe of Science by Glendon Mellow Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/flyingtrilobite

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6:26 AM | Little Stegoceras Sketch

I think I might refine this a little more. What an intriguing, alien looking skull. As cartoonist Peter Cook (@doodletronicsp) remarked while we stood sketching at the Royal Ontario Museum last weekend, "Mr. Giger would approve".And so do I. The Flying Trilobite http://glendonmellow.blogspot.com Art in Awe of Science by Glendon Mellow Follow me on Twitter! http://twitter.com/flyingtrilobite

April 11, 2013

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4:36 PM | Festival bites: BNA 2013 Day 4

Over the past four days BNA 2013: Festival of Neuroscience has filled the Barbican with an extravaganza of brain science. A lucky group of science writers from the Wellcome Trust attended the Festival. Each day, we asked them to give a short account of the seminars and lectures which they attended, to share the new [...]

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11:57 AM | The myth of learning styles

Before becoming a writer, I spent a year-and-a-half training as a science teacher and then working at a secondary school in Croydon. During my short stint in education, the biggest buzzword was “differentiation.” We were told that any given class contains pupils with a range of abilities, and that different children have different learning styles. [...]

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11:07 AM | Body of Art

The understanding of the human body is an area where art and science have a long history of collaboration and cross-fertilisation. Since the Renaissance with polymaths, such as Leonardo DaVinci and Andreas Vesalius, art has enhanced our understanding of the …

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April 10, 2013

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4:57 PM | The Pros and Cons of Putting Happy Faces on Molecules

I have a terrible habit of putting faces on just about everything I draw, whether it be atoms, bacteria, or personified evolution. I’ve often wondered if this does a disservice to my science art subjects, but I continue to do it because I feel like a well-placed friendly face can make people so much more [...]

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2:20 PM | Stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease: Prospects and problems

Parkinson’s Disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops over many years, leading to impairments of movement and deficits in mental functioning. It affects around 130,000 people in the UK alone, and an estimated 7-10 million worldwide. There is no cure for Parkinson’s, but drugs can effectively treat the symptoms in many patients, and researchers [...]

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8:56 AM | The science of sleep

Sitting cross-legged on the artificial grass with lunch in hand, surrounded by tropical ferns and the sounds of running water and birds, it all seemed like a bit of a dreamscape. So it would seem the Barbican’s conservatory room was a fitting location for a Packed Lunch talk at Wonder season with Dr Katharina Wulff, of the [...]

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1:56 AM | COME AND GET YER SCIENCE! ASKLABS PICKS THE BEST OF THE FEST

The Cambridge Science Festival 2013 is here at last! Here is the ASKlabs guide to the BEST of the FEST! (Obviously there is much more to see, but the following events really jumped out at us as sitting at our favorite intersection, where Science and Art meet -- with a little innovation, storytelling, and education thrown in). Follow the Festival on Twitter (@CSFtweets) for up-to-date info. Anyone can make a donation to the Cambridge Science Festival here: http://bit.ly/ZkQvaU Friday, April […]

April 09, 2013

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5:41 PM | Festival bites: BNA 2013 Day 3

Over the next four days BNA 2013: Festival of Neuroscience is filling the Barbican with an extravaganza of brain science. A lucky group of science writers from the Wellcome Trust are attending the Festival. Each day, we’ve asked them to give a short account of the seminars and lectures which they attend, to share [...]

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9:51 AM | Neuroscience and navigating the city

At Monday’s Packed Lunch talk at Wonder season, lecturer in cognitive and perceptual brain science, Hugo Spiers, talked the audience through the latest research on the brain and navigation. And here’s the turn. Left. Through these doors. Around the bend and then left, right, right, left. Up the street with the funny looking trees. And ah, [...]

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8:47 AM | A short interview with Professor David Nutt

Professor David Nutt, President of the British Neuroscience Association, took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to talk us about the brain, neuroscience, public engagement, the BNA Festival of Neuroscience and Wonder season.

April 08, 2013

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7:49 PM | Festival bites: BNA 2013 Day 2

Over the next four days BNA 2013: Festival of Neuroscience is filling the Barbican with an extravaganza of brain science. A lucky group of science writers from the Wellcome Trust are attending the Festival. Each day, we’ve asked them to give a short account of the seminars and lectures which they attend, to share the [...]

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5:46 PM | Stem cell models of nervous system diseases

Neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and pain come at a huge cost to society and the economy, and one of the big challenges of modern neuroscience is to develop effective treatments for them. Recent years have seen big leaps in our understanding of these conditions, but effective treatments are still a long [...]

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3:29 PM | Victorian Wallpaper in Your Lungs

No William Morris didn’t design this 18th century simulacrum – it’s “a microscopic image of lung surfactant, a lipid-protein material that aids in respiration by reducing the amount of energy needed”. And it’s elegantly fantastic. In a recent issue of BioMedical Beat, authors Prajnaparamita Dhar, Elizabeth Eck, Jacob N. Israelachvili, Dong Woog Lee, Younjin Min, Arun [...]

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10:18 AM | A street fair of brains and wonder

Kate Arkless Gray reports from the first day of the Wonder street fair at the Barbican in London. From brain surgery to knitted neurons, the Wonder season at the Barbican has something for everyone. The Wonder Street Fair, which runs from 7-9 April, is making neuroscience more accessible to the public by getting them involved in [...]

April 07, 2013

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5:55 PM | Your plastic self

Who – or what – do you think you are? You probably think that your memories and personality are an important part of what you call your “self,” and you’d be right. But the core of your sense of self is something that you probably take completely for granted – your body. Philosophers have [...]