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March 13, 2013

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By now, you’ve probably seen all of the hullaboo on the SciAm site about the launch of the Scientific American MIND blogs. New and old bloggers are teaming up here to write about all things wonderful and strange on psychology, neuroscience, and culture. I’m excited for all the new blogs (go check them out!) and [...]

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3:13 PM | Gull Poop Beach Ecosystem

Aren't these beautiful flowers? I don't know about you but I'm pretty grateful for gull poop about now. Permalink | Leave a comment »

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7:14 AM | Brains in motion: The Bipolar Blues

About the Film Bipolar disorder refers to a mood disorder affecting approximately one in every 100 adults. For those people, severe mood disturbances – either highly elevated or strongly depressed — can make normal functioning extremely difficult. In this film, we meet ‘Twink’, former photographer for The Jam, who has experienced the extremes of bipolar [...]

March 12, 2013

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8:36 PM | IMAGEMAKING AT MIT'S EDGERTON CENTER

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QsMQtqyM4SE/UEKMd9LJsbI/AAAAAAAAyrY/nCMWxq-oY84/s1600/Harold-Edgerton-27.jpeg When I was asked to be a part of the Boston Globe’s 25 Most Stylish Bostonians, I scheduled my shoot right away lest they changed their minds! Then I immediately began brainstorming locations for my photo shoot - I am a Producer after all. My criteria: highlighting my passion for science, technology, aesthetics, and film. Naturally I landed at the Edgerton Center at MIT. The Edgerton […]

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8:09 PM | You’ve never really seen a virus until you see this

Artist Luke Jerram is a UK-based sculptor whose glass sculptures of microscopic life make the invisible visible. I was instantly transfixed by his sculptures’ delicacy and intense beauty. For me, something is captured in these sculptures that is lost in the false-color scanning electron microscope images we typically see of viruses and other extremely small [...]

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7:44 PM | Momentum

This blackboard photo was taken as part of an art exhibition entitled “Momentum” in which photographer Alejandro Guijarro spent 3 years travelling to the great Quantum Mechanics institutions of the world and photographing the blackboards as he found them. In the exhibition, the photographs were then displayed life-sized. More information on the ideas behind the [...]

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9:00 AM | Brains in motion: Steve Gets a Brain Scan

About the film Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, is a powerful medical imaging technique. Thanks to the stunning images created, MRI frequently crops up in both the news and popular science television. But what’s it like to have your brain scanned by an MRI machine – essentially an immensely powerful magnet? The Wellcome Trust’s Design Manager, [...]

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12:52 AM | Heerman's gulls eat...

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12:52 AM | Heerman’s gulls eat…

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March 11, 2013

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9:21 AM | The Great Brain Experiment

As part of Brain Awareness Week 2013, a team of researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging are launching an experimental app. Rick Adams tells us more. Have you ever wondered how your brain works? How it compares to other people’s? Or what scientists are doing to try to understand the workings of the mind? Well [...]

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9:00 AM | Brains in Motion: Dissecting Brains

About the film On Wednesdays at Hammersmith Hospital in London, a few recently preserved human brains are dissected according to an international protocol and stored in a tissue bank for further research. The brains have mostly been donated by people with Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis (both degenerative and incurable diseases of the central nervous [...]

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8:30 AM | Brains in motion: Introduction

Brain Awareness Week, from the 11th- 17th of March, is an annual global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. There are all sorts of events happening across the country to showcase and celebrate UK neuroscience, including some fun and fascinating activities being run by researchers at eight Wellcome [...]

March 08, 2013

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3:22 PM | PUTTING THE "A" IN STEM EDUCATION

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oxbJefoEJs8/TujbVYjA25I/AAAAAAAAChA/7j9hsxqnvNI/s1600/brain_gears_iStock_000013485370Small.jpg ASKlabs’ dynamic film and TV productions often highlight creativity at the interface of art and science. Naturally, we’ve taken an interest in the STEM to STEAM movement, the educational policy initiative to incorporate art and design into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). On the final day of the AAAS (American Association for the […]

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9:56 AM | The facts say it all: so why aren’t we talking about mental illness?

With International Women’s Day and Mothering Sunday falling on the same weekend this year, there will be millions of women the world-over coming together to talk, laugh, and debate hot topics. But although some of you may share what’s on your mind, how many of you will be talking about your mental health? Emma Rhule [...]

March 06, 2013

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11:43 AM | S I X

One. Two. Three. Four. Five. And now, Six. The Flying Trilobite blog is six years old today. - - - - - - - -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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9:00 AM | Unexplained and unrelenting: conversion disorder in the 21st Century

A hundred years ago, one of the most common psychiatric diseases in women was hysteria. A dazzling array of symptoms were attributed to this nebulous disease – from tremors, stiffness, and paralysis, to nervousness or lethargy. Harriet Brown, a PhD student at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, explains what modern medicine can tell us [...]

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12:47 AM | Speaking of gull poop...

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March 04, 2013

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9:00 AM | Moving Parts: A lecture on the adolescent brain

If there was one key message from Jay Giedd’s lecture at UCL, it was this: teenagers, and particularly their brains, deserve more credit. Simple, but with the constant barrage of bad press about young people it is easy to forget that adolescence is a unique and valuable part of human development. Adolescence has played a [...]

March 02, 2013

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12:39 AM | Hello, new readers!

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March 01, 2013

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11:16 AM | Intersecting 4k-manifolds

This board was created in the office of University of Edinburgh PhD topologists Carmen Rovi and Chris Palmer during a discussion with Patrick Orson about Wall’s theorem on the non-additivity of signatures. That is, what happens to the signatures when you glue together three or more 4k-manifolds in such a way that the three boundaries [...]

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9:00 AM | The evolution of Consciousness: Part 2

Consciousness, an audio-visual performance lecture that will transport the audience on a journey through the human mind, will take place at the Barbican this weekend as part of the Wonder season. In his second post about the making-of the show, Chris Sharp, Music Programmer at the Barbican, gives us a glimpse behind-the-scenes as the team come [...]

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12:46 AM | Ultimate Croc Anatomy!

What does ambition look like in a scientific illustrator? Ultimate Croc Anatomy! If you are following the #sciart hashtag on Twitter or belong to the GNSI sciart listserv you already know Mieke Roth is an accomplished scientific illustrator. Recently,she was featured in MAKE Magazine for her 3D render of the anatomy of an octopus, [...]

February 28, 2013

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9:40 PM | Reflecting on Encounters between Art and Science

What happens when art and science encounter one another in the British Library? Something interesting is – I hope – the answer since for the past year or so I’ve been working on the “Encounters between Art and …

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9:28 PM | Visualizing Science: Seeing Unseen Forms

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/04/jaxa-probe-capt/ The recent AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) conference, organized by the publishers of Science, brought thousands of attendees to Boston's Hynes Convention Center. This year's #AAASmtg, entitled "The Beauty and Benefits of Science" grabbed our attention because that's exactly what we focus on here at ASKlabs. Read on to hear about the most interesting #sciart talks of the conference: "Artful Science" which […]

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3:28 PM | Exciting News

The negative news for the start: Unfortunately, my entry for the ”International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge’ is not among the winners. Here are the 2012 winners. However, a huge “Thank You” to all who supported me! Now the positive ones: @CristyGelling interviewed me for ASBMS Today, and out came a great article: http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/asbmbtoday_article.aspx?id=32336 ‘Close [...]

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10:05 AM | Amnesia: Eternal Sunshine?

Amnesia is a favourite trope of film-makers and screen-writers alike. It’s been used as a plot device in thrillers, in soap operas as a dramatic twist in a storyline, and in science fiction films, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Here Nancy Wilkinson, a writer for the Wellcome Trust, explores some of the real-life stories [...]

February 27, 2013

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8:26 PM | Why we need Science Communication

I compiled a list or resources for science communicators, it's sort of a summary of my summer reading. My article Why We Need Science Communication was published this morning by Nature Publishing Group. So far it's gotten enthusiastic reviews. Thanks to Maki Naro for his beautiful guest editorial cartoon! Maki is a new friend of mine, that I met at ScienceOnline last month. You can also learn a bit more about Maki in a recent interview of him at Little House Entertainment. Permalink […]

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8:11 PM | The SciArt Buzz: SciArt Happenings in March/April 2013

Oh, my. The more I look, the more I find. Get your sciart on, peeps! _____________ EXHIBITS: NORTHEAST REGION Pulse: Art and Medicine February 16 to April 13, 2013 The Mansion at Strathmore 10701 Rockville Pike North Bethesda, MD Imagine the place where art, science and the human body intersect: that’s the idea behind Pulse: [...]

February 26, 2013

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7:31 PM | Your Brain on Cookies

I have decided that one of the ways I will utilize this new blog space is to comic-ify other SciAm posts. This week, I felt inspired by Scicurious‘s post about food “addictions:” Of course I’m stressed, I’m in cookie withdrawal. To study the withdrawal-like effects of stopping a high fat diet, researchers took two groups [...]

February 25, 2013

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4:00 PM | SciArt on Google+

A couple of years ago, when the massive and amazing all-in-one scienceblogging.org was launching, the organizers asked if I thought there were enough artists blogging about science-related artwork to make an RSS feed that would update a few times a day or week, that could collect science-based artists under one roof. I said sure, and [...]