tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78106626248288155852024-03-05T23:45:59.189+00:00The Art in Sciencekimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-84460941282802048542013-07-12T17:09:00.000+01:002013-07-12T17:24:09.463+01:0010 years to take a picture of the universeThis is a compiled image of 10 years worth of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs. NASA call this the eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) which is a section of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field (previous holder of the title 'deepest image of the universe') and contains 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies you can see on the picture are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see. You can <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html">go into more detail and watch a video on the NASA website</a>.
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kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-55606426358011875412013-07-01T15:38:00.001+01:002013-07-01T15:47:13.738+01:00Lava over ice. Completely mesmerising.You wouldn't think this video was 8 minutes long after sitting through it with your jaw slightly ajar and your eyes fixed at your screen in wonder. I love lava. It is an incredible thing that rocks can even get so hot that they can be poured but I had never considered how interesting and entertaining it would be to watch when in contact with something at the other end of the kelvin scale.<br />
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kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-73595799895307218682013-03-18T11:48:00.000+00:002013-03-18T11:48:40.573+00:00Nike's x-ray tightsNike released these <a href="http://nikeinc.com/news/nikes-exclusive-print-tight-shows-what-women-are-made-of#/inline/14951">pretty cool x-ray leggings</a> at the end of last year and I keep meaning to post about them. So here they are - Nike thinking outside the box.<br />
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The say in some admittedly effusive 'brand' speak:<br />
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"The new Nike Women’s Exclusive Print tight is a performance based pant for the athlete unafraid to make a statement. On the outside, she might be the girl next door, but on the inside, her body has survived grueling workouts, often pushing through pain, broken bones, pulled muscles and harsh tears."<br />
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Still, despite over-egging the campaign behind the tights, they look pretty awesome.<br />
<br />kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-29373341287911216662013-03-15T16:41:00.000+00:002013-03-15T16:41:40.932+00:00The most beautiful sight in space is urineFrom down here on our humble planet, the best sight for me is the Milky Way on a clear night in a remote location. Or a meteor shower. Or a Solar Eclipse. Or Uranus, Venus and Mars all visible with the naked eye on the same night. But for Russel Schweickart of Appolo 9...<br />
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Russel wasn't available for comment but I can regurgitate what others have said for you. Space shuttles don't have much space on board for the little extras, like bodily waste, so they regularly have to release them to lighten their load. When urine is released from the exit nozzle it freezes immediately and 'instantly flashes into 10 million little ice crystals which go out almost in a hemisphere…a spray of sparklers, almost' (say <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id">Scientific American</a> anyway). And it gets better, once those little droplets are crystals, the sun then hits them and transforms them into water vapour to create a kind of mesmerizing cloud of human bodily fluids.<br />
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The urine dump that Russel was talking about was a particularly big one (about 68 kilos of urine and water) because the shuttle couldn't unload during it's 10-day stay at the international Space Station. Nice.<br />
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*Source: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919253,00.html">Time</a></div>
kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-44336520397382016442013-03-14T17:19:00.003+00:002013-03-14T17:47:22.342+00:00Magic Zig-zagging waterA colleague sent me this link to an experiment on <a href="http://alexhardy.net/blog/2013/3/14/this-is-what-happens-when-you-run-water-through-a-24hz-sine-wave">Alex Hardy's Blog</a> where a 24Hz Sine Wave is put through a flow of running water adn it appears to run in a zig zig motion. I don't know if this beats <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU">non-newtonian fluid on a speaker</a>* but it's pretty darn close.<br />
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The camera frame rate is adjusted to match the vibration of the wave (so, 24 FPS {frames per second})to get this effect. This is an optical illusion resulting from viewing the stream of water at the same FPS as the HZ of the sound. In person, it wouldn't look like this. It's a bit like the way the rims on a car appear to spin in reverse at certain speeds. At 23Hz the stream of water would look like it is moving backwards and 25Hz like it is moving forward in slow motion.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> *I just searched back for a blog post to link to on non-newtonian fluid on speakers and was amazed to find that I haven't posted about it yet. Error. Post coming soon!</span>kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-83567777100723692812012-11-17T12:02:00.000+00:002013-03-15T16:44:18.793+00:00Tiny, tiny baby mouse. How cute.When I say baby, what I really mean is embryo. This 18.5-day-old double transgenic mouse embryo (transgenic simply meaning that it contains genes from another species) was taken by Gloria Kwon and it won 1st place in the annual Nikon Small World photomicrography competition back in 2007.<br />
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The image was taken at 17x magnification. The green that you see is the in-tact yolk sac with green fluorescence The rest of the embryo, including the placenta, have red fluorescence.<br />
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<br />kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-86129465088331742032012-11-12T09:51:00.000+00:002012-11-12T10:01:12.973+00:00The original Spirograph<b id="internal-source-marker_0.3153915931470692" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During a recent trip to the </span><a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Science Museum</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I happily found myself distracted from the 8 foot by 8 foot calculator in the Mathematics exhibition, by this:</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weights can be added or moved up and down the pendulums to vary the speed that they swing at, creating varied patterns.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Science Museum has a number of curve-drawing machines on show, like Stanley’s and George Adam’s geometric pens which arguably </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">were</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the first spirographs, but with fancier cogs.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This example, at the Science Museum, is the only known example of a 4-stage chuck for use on paper...and boy does it do good things to paper.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chuck works by drawing the epicycloidal motion of each tier (determined by different sizes of cog) onto the paper at the top of the chuck. The motion of each tier can be superimposed upon another, or other tiers can be fixed so that the motion of only one tier is drawn.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So there we have it, an introductory tour of curve-drawing machines with very little science or maths and a lot of “it makes pretty things”. That’s what I like. But...if you do want some maths - <a href="http://theartinscience.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/whats-deal-with-spirographs.html">the old Spirograph post</a> has a bit to whet your appetite or you can go all-out with <a href="http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?W=4&F=0001&Step=1&screenwidth=1440">this article</a> - </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which has some amazing examples and a bit of science behind their construction.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Science Museum </span><a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/mathematics.aspx"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mathematics exhibition</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is on the Second floor and is a permanent fixture (for now).</span></b>kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-61544245792836991382012-03-28T14:45:00.001+01:002012-03-29T19:50:30.233+01:00Visualising earth's tidesNASA's Scientific VIsualisation Studio produced this video demonstrating how the earths tides ebb and flow around the world. It doesn't include narration or annotation because, they explain, 'The goal was to use ocean flow
data to create a simple, visceral experience'.<br />
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The visualisation shows ocean surface currents around the world during
the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007 - these firgures are plotted into a computer that takes in shed loads of data and outputs pretty things like this - I love when computers do that. The computational model is called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2 for short).<br />
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It can calculate ocean flow at all depths but this particular video shows only surface flows. NASA describe it as a 'high resolution model of the global ocean and sea-ice. ECCO2
attempts to model the oceans and sea ice to increasingly accurate
resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow-current
systems which transport heat and carbon in the oceans'.<br />
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The dark areas under the ocean rshow the the
undersea bathymetry (basically the opposite of topography). The bathymetry and land topography are exaggerated to enhance the contrast - bathymetry by 20 times and topography by 40 times.<br />
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<tr><td><b>Completed</b>:</td><td>2011-04-08</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Animators</b>:</td><td><a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/Person/ShirahGreg.html" target="_blank">Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)</a> (Lead)</td></tr>
<tr><td><br /></td><td><a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/Person/MitchellHorace.html" target="_blank">Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Video Editor</b>:</td><td><a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/Person/WeeksVictoria.html" target="_blank">Victoria Weeks (HTSI)</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Scientists</b>:</td><td><a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/Person/ZhangHong.html" target="_blank">Hong Zhang (UCLA)</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><br /></td><td><a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/Person/MenemenlisDimitris.html" target="_blank">Dimitris Menemenlis (NASA/JPL CalTech)</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets</b>:</td><td><a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/DataSet/id_0274.html" target="_blank">GTOPO30 Topography and Bathymetry</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><br /></td><td><a target="_blank" href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/DataSet/id_0550.html">Hipparcos/Tycho 2 Catalogue</a> </td></tr>
<tr><td><br /></td><td><a target="_blank" href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/DataSet/id_0707.html">ECCO2 High Resolution Ocean and Sea Ice Model</a> (06/2006 - 12/2007)</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Series</b>:</td><td><a target="_blank" href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/Series/Flows.html">Flows</a></td></tr>
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Ruth and Sira say that they "love the smell of damp earth, the mountains, the woods, walking around barefoot and eating directly from the saucepan. We listen to black metal. We are quiet. We smile a lot, sometimes people freak out. We play drums and bass in a band that doesn't exist". They seem cool.kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-72676105445363922402012-02-22T22:03:00.000+00:002012-02-22T22:15:00.724+00:00The Theory of Everything<p>A friend shared this video with me recently, introducing me to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics">Minute Physics</a> and the awesome videos they produce. This one is an introduction to the hypothetical Theory of Everything - a theory I wrestled with in a quantum physics module last year - that links together all physical 'things' and predicts the outcome of any experiment that could be carried out, ever...in theory. Yeah, it's tough to summarise, that's where Minute Physics come in:</p>
<p><iframe width="520" height="305" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HVO0HgMi6Lc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-1362262517440114722012-02-21T22:19:00.000+00:002012-02-22T08:23:13.102+00:00Mouse intestines on twitter<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523Super">#Super</a> resolution image of mouse intestine from @<a href="https://twitter.com/API_DeltaVision">API_DeltaVision</a> stained with <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523Phalloidin">#Phalloidin</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523DAPI">#DAPI</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523microscopy">#microscopy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%2523biology">#biology</a> <a href="http://t.co/2Egp0L2H" title="http://twitter.com/GECellBiology/status/171613582612643841/photo/1">twitter.com/GECellBiology/…</a></p>— GE Cell Biology (@GECellBiology) <a href="https://twitter.com/GECellBiology/status/171613582612643841" data-datetime="2012-02-20T15:14:02+00:00">February 20, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Stephen is a physician-scientist currently completing his internal medicine residency. After completing his phd dissertation on cardiac arrhythmia he said he wanted to "display his accomplishment without hanging a certificate on the wall". He therefore used the words of his dissertation in a print of a heart (similar to the print below) to display his achievement.
From this, he continues to create <a href="http://www.stephengaeta.com/classicscience.html" target="_blank">typographical imagery from classic scientific masterpieces</a>.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Text from the seminal 1809 work of cardiology <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26836/26836-h/26836-h.htm"><em>Cases of the Organic Disease of the Heart, with Dissections and Some Remarks Intended to Point Out the Distinctive Symptoms of These Diseases</em></a>, by John Collins Warren. In this work, Warren describes the symptoms of 11 of his patients with heart disease as they presented in his office and, later, on his dissecting table. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Text from <em><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15707/15707-h/15707-h.htm#sect_III">Zoonomia</a></em>, the 1794 masterpiece of Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles), in which he attempted to catalog and explain human anatomy, pathology, and physiology, including the visual system</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Reactant</b><br />Text from the <em><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22914/22914-h/22914-h.htm">The Sceptical Chymist</a></em> by Robert Boyle (1661), in which he provided the foundations of modern chemistry by proving that matter is comprised of individual atoms.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Image: Babak Anasori/Michael Naguib/Yury Gogotsi/Michel W. Barsou<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">m/Drexel University <em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">[<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/vis2011/images/vis2011-photo-cliff.jpg" style="color: #007ca5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">high-resolution</a>]</em> </span></td></tr>
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Why it's nano-material titanium cliffs of course.<br />
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Alright, so perhaps you didn't get that straight off - it's pretty awesome though, huh? This microscopic cliff-like overhang is an electron micrograph of super-thin layers of a titanium compound. When dunked in hydrofluoric acid, a compound known as Ti3AlC2* loses its aluminum to form layers of Ti3C2 that are just five atoms thick. The result is a nearly two-dimensional compound called “MXene”.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*you can probably just skim right over that jumble of letters and numbers - like the first time you read 'Hermione' in Harry Potter.</span>kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-23354429811435792012-02-18T13:17:00.001+00:002012-02-19T00:24:26.903+00:00Anatomical kissingAnatomical kissing by <a href="http://www.alexgrey.com/" target="_blank">Alex Grey</a>
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<a href="http://streetanatomy.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Street Anatomy</a><br />
One of my favourite blogs for study-procrastination. It features prints, sculptures, street art, sketches and just about every other art form, all inspired by the field of anatomy. Full of awesome images.<br />
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<a href="http://bioephemera.com/%20" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">BioEmphemera</a><br />
'Robot
Art, Algorithmic and Procedural Art, Computational Aesthetics, Glitch
Aesthetics, Vj’ing, Video Art, Computational Archaeology and similar
subjects'...go check it out for yourself!<br />
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<a href="http://isthisbioart.com/blog/" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Is this bioart?</a><br />
A blog that asks the question 'Is this bioart?' through biology-inspired works of art. A good read despite coming away still not really knowing <i>what is bioart</i>... but that's part of the charm.<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Symbiartic</a><br />
A blog by Glendon Mellow, fine artist and illustrator, and Kalliopi Monoyios, scientific illustrator - two successful sciartists in their field who, I would go so far as to say, are a real authority on science-art.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/Astro_Wheels" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Astro Wheels on Twitter</a><br />
Astro_Wheels is the twitter feed of NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelcock who tweets pictures from a laboratory in space that is orbiting the earth. Rare and mesmerizing views.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Nikon Small World</a><br />
A Treasure trove of photomicrography and electron photography - thousands of amazing images from previous photomicrography competions providing views of world that we rarely get to see.<br />
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<a href="http://www.microbialart.com/%20" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Microbial Art</a><br />
An intriguing collection of
unique artworks created using living bacteria, fungi, and protists using a wide variety of taxa and techniques.<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Artologica on Etsy </a><br />
Art by Michelle Banks on Etsy - she mostly uses watercolour to create impressions of veins, cells, neurons, petric dishes and the like.<br />
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<a href="http://artcatalyst.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Melanie K </a><br />
Sciart works that inspire blogger and MA Art and Science student, Melanie K. (I was very excited to hear that this masters is available! - she is studying at at Central St Martins in the UK) <br />
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<a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/" target="_blank" style="color: #ea007d; font-size: 20px;">Information is Beautiful</a><br />
A popular website full of pretty, design-y visualisations of vast amounts of data - presenting the headache of statistics in easy-to-chew chunks.<br />
<br />kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-72926000003201498772012-01-18T17:41:00.000+00:002012-01-18T17:42:34.986+00:00The Art in Science has a new lookHi there readers, <br />
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Whilst I don't often address you directly, for I rarely find the occasion, today is different. If you haven't noticed already, The Art in Science has had a makeover and I am pleased to share it with you. I felt it was time, like a snake shedding it's skin to allow for growth (and to remove old parasites but that part of the analogy doesn't apply), to give the blog a new lease of life. I wanted to move to a simpler, cleaner, yet brighter look and feel for the blog and so have spent the last few days working on a new logo and palette. <br />
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I would welcome your feedback - this is a work in progress and there are many tweaks yet to be made. Howeveer, I would be grateful to hear all kinds of criticism you got for me - be it constructive of otherwise (sometimes it's good to just let it all out) - and of course any squeals of joy at how excited the new-look blog has gotten you.<br />
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Cheers m'dears,<br />
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Kimkimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-79456814768471942292012-01-16T09:30:00.001+00:002012-02-18T13:18:50.562+00:00The intricacies of life: animating the cellDrew Berry, a biomedical animator, is helping researchers and laymen alike to see the unseeable. We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do but at TEDxSydney Berry shows his scientifically accurate and aesthitcally rich animations that are helping researchers to visualise and further understand the unseeable processes within our own cells.
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<p>ps. If you are not familiar with <a href="http://www.ted.com">TED.com</a> it is time you were. Their tag line is "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world" and that is exactly what they are. Focusing on science, technology, arts and business. <a href="http://www.ted.com">Go explore >></a></p>kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-20107953932070683922011-11-22T22:03:00.001+00:002012-02-18T13:19:04.891+00:00Sick: Candice Coust's knitted anatomyCandace Coust is a Calgary-based mixed-media artist whose <a href="http://candacecouse.com/work.html">recent work</a> has involved knitting anatomical works including full bodies, pulled apart at the threads and this stop-motion video of a faciful voyage through our mysterious innards.<br />
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Candice describes <i>Sick</i> as 'a fanciful, endoscopic journey through the knitted body that is violently disrupted by the discovery of a malignant malady'.<br />
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Another old classic that has made its way around the cyberverse* is this map of the inner workings of the human body in the style of a tube map (or subway to my readers from across the pond). <br />
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Illustrated by <a href="http://just-sam.com/">Sam Loman</a>, it depicts the arterial, digestive, musculoskeletal and five other systems with junctions where they intertwine, for example the kidney and the heart.<br />
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It's pretty, no doubt and it contains 8 of the 11 human systems. But... It does not include the integumentary system (skin, hair, nails), reproductive or endocrine systems; it includes only the central nervous system and not the peripheral nervous system; and there are junctions where there is no meeting of systems, for example at the humerous and radius. However, I don't think Sam intended the map to be used in a biology exam.<br />
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It's a visual metaphor and looks awesome so lets not get picky about the details. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*Sometimes I like to try and think of as many words for internet as possible.</span>kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-25350403866966213532011-09-04T21:20:00.000+01:002012-02-18T13:20:48.202+00:00Bombay Bicycle Club's anatomical cover artI caught a glimpse of a poster whilst rushing for the jubilee line today and fell just a little bit in love with an artist. It was for the new Bombay Bicycle club album, A Different Kind of Fix, and the cover (below) is an artistic impression of the brain, oesophagus and nasal passage.<br />
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I came home to research the artisit and found that it is by illustrator <a href="http://www.katie-scott.com/">Katie Scott</a>. On <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqwrpiksvk1qhbyppo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1315253366&Signature=Wl2HaWr%2B17%2FAZsw9PQq%2B%2BetSpAk%3D">her blog</a> she also has photos of the album interior (below) which I think is also beautiful and can imagine similar prints adorning the walls of my new flat!<br />
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Katie has amassed an eclectic collection of anatomical and nature-themed illustrations, some intended to be more accurate interpretations than others. I particularly like the intricate detail in her work and her subtle use of colour. There are loads of illustrations to look through on her <a href="http://katie-scott.tumblr.com/">blog</a> or <a href="http://www.katie-scott.com/">website</a> and you can also show your support for her work or see what she's up to by following her on <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/katiescottscott">twitter</a>.<br />
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<br />kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-40601402978474169952011-08-29T22:13:00.000+01:002011-08-29T22:46:17.938+01:00Did the Victorians get the sci-art mix perfect?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Schmidt giving the<br />
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</tbody></table>The Guardian this week <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/26/eric-schmidt-chairman-google-education">brought us all the action</a> from the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/edinburgh-tv-festival-2011">MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival</a>, including a hard-hitting lecture from Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, who delivered a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2011/aug/27/eric-schmidt-mactaggart-lecture" target="_blank">scathing critique</a> of the UK education system at the annual MacTaggart lecture. Eric spoke of it's failure to make the most of the country's record of innovation in computing and engineering (having invented the TV, photography and the computer both in thoery and practice) and highlighted the lack of support for bringing the sciences and arts back together in schools.<br />
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While Eric has since recieved criticism for drawing 'naive conclusions', he has also generated support for his back-to-the-abacus way of thinking. Schmidt said:<br />
<blockquote>'Over the past century, the UK has stopped nurturing its polymaths. You need to bring art and science back together. [The Victorian era] was a time when the same people wrote poetry and built bridges - Lewis Carroll didn't just write one of the classic fairytales of all time. He was also a mathematics tutor at Oxford. James Clerk Maxwell was described by Einstein as among the best physicists since Newton – but was also a published poet.'</blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lewis Carroll</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/26/eric-schmidt-chairman-google-education">Guardian article</a> generated some interesting discussion in the comments section and while they are by no means all positive, it is good to see people talking about what is important in schools and debating whether it is possible or necesary to return to a Victorian-style education system.<br />
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The Guardian collated some of the most well-informed comments in a<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/29/bridging-arts-science-divide"> follow-up article</a> if you're interested. It's great to see the Guardian picking up interest in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/29/bridging-arts-science-divide">bridging the arts and sciences divide</a>.kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-87254538263126650762011-08-14T19:22:00.000+01:002012-02-18T13:20:36.711+00:00Guitar oscillations caught on an iPhone 4Kyle Jones happened upon this trick when curious to see what filming from inside his guitar looked like. The effect you see is due to the rolling shutter and is not representative of the way strings really oscillate. It's fascinating and definitely a try-it-home trick.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TKF6nFzpHBU" width="500"></iframe>kimberleypryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747182721630672905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810662624828815585.post-43549357964774981032011-08-10T08:45:00.000+01:002011-08-10T09:00:45.878+01:00Mesmerising pendulumFifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion - from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/NatSciDemos">NatSciDemos on youtube</a><br />
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A pendulum is made up of a weight suspended on a rod, string or wire. When the weight or bob is moved and let go, the pendulum will swing back and forth in a regular periodic motion. The affect of gravity on the bob results in a very predictable periodic motion. The length of the string/rod determines the frequency of its swing - Pendulums have been used in clocks for hundreds of years, because the motion is so regular. <br />
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Here's a pretty awesome UV version from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/brusspup">brusspup on youtube</a> (who has some other cool videos)<br />
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