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Category Archives: Slideshow
Show Me The Science
This week Science magazine unveiled the winners of the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge (sponsored by the AAAS and the NSF). The award “honors recipients who use visual media to promote the understanding of scientific research.” That sounds … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, Features, Frontpage, Science Journal, Slideshow, Uncategorized, Visual Art
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Tagged AAAS, NSF, Photography, Science magazine
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Because Science Is Forever
Science writer Carl Zimmer is back on the show this week, to talk about his new book Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed (Sterling, 2011). While he doesn’t have any tattoos himself (or any plans to get one) Zimmer … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, books, Features, Frontpage, Radio Segments, Slideshow, Uncategorized, Visual Art
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Tagged books, Carl Zimmer, tattoos, Visual Art
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Picturing Medicine’s History
The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination by Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, and Emma Shackleton. (University of Chicago Press, 2012.) Coffee table book alert. Actually I probably wouldn’t put The Art of Medicine on my coffee … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, books, Features, Frontpage, History, Slideshow, Uncategorized, Visual Art
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Tagged art, art history, History, Medicine, nurse
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What’s (Not) In A Name
As a published author and successful painter, James Prosek has more tools than most artists for communicating what he sees in nature. But he’s dissatisfied. Mostly with Linnaeus and his eponymous system for naming the natural world. (Remember? Kingdom, Phylum, … Continue reading →
Posted in Events, Features, Frontpage, Radio Segments, Slideshow, Uncategorized, Visual Art
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Tagged exhibitions, fish, James Prosek, natural history, Nature
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Found: The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott
Next month marks the 100th year since the first Antarctic expedition reached the South Pole. (Congratulations, Mr. Amundsen.) This week Science Friday talks with the authors of two books about those famous first expeditions. Edward Larson’s Empire of Ice reexamines … Continue reading →
Posted in Blogs, books, Features, Frontpage, History, Radio Segments, Slideshow
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Tagged Amundsen, Antartica, David M. Wilson, Edward Larson, Ernest Shackleton, History, Robert Falcon Scott, South Pole
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This Year’s Best Science and Engineering Visualizations
Some of science’s most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Rosalind Franklin’s X-rays, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history. To illustrate is to enlighten. So says the National Science … Continue reading →
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Tagged Competition, illustration, infographics, NSF, Visualizations
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The Long Life of Darwin’s Images (Audio Slideshow)
Caravaggio…Van Gogh…Darwin? Charles Darwin, of course, wasn’t an artist – in fact, he could barely draw – but he was a visual thinker. In the new book Darwin’s Pictures, art historian Julia Voss makes the case that Darwin relied on … Continue reading →
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Tagged charles darwin, evolution, Visual Art
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The Artists Behind Your Elementary School Science Textbooks
In the introduction to A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson says his interest in science was first sparked by a fourth-grade illustrated science textbook: The book was a standard-issue 1950s schoolbook — battered, unloved, grimly hefty — but … Continue reading →
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Tagged education, Exhibits, illustration, Science Journal
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Lena Herzog’s “Lost Souls” (Audio Slideshow)
Photographer Lena Herzog’s book Lost Souls features images of wunderkammern – encyclopedic collections of “wonders and curiosities” created in the 16th and 17th centuries. These collections included paintings, sculptures, tools, plants, and anatomical specimens alike. At the time, art and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Lena Herzog, Museums, Photography, Wunderkammer
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Touching The Carina Nebula
Noreen Grice continues her interest in tactile astronomy by collaborating with NASA to make this raised image of the Carina Nebula. She explains her thought process in this audio slideshow. For more information, please go to: http://www.youcandoastronomy.com.
