Category Archives: Visual Art

Björk’s New York ‘Residency’

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Annette Heist

In case you didn’t get tickets to see the Icelandic singer, swan dress wearer, and now science teacher Björk at the New York Hall of Science, she’s added another show to the Roseland Ballroom leg of her ‘residency.’ Björk is … Continue reading →

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Show Me The Science

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Annette Heist

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 →

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Dreams Of A ‘Global Jukebox’

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Annette Heist

Over his 70-year career, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax amassed thousands of sound recordings, piles of photographs, miles of film, and hours of videotape documenting traditional music and musicians from around the world. From his New York Times obituary (he died in … Continue reading →

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Fasciating Flowers

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Annette Heist

Not all mutants are of the too-much-radiation, giant-reptile-takes-over-the-world variety. Artist Amy Davis Roth, of Mad Art Lab, photographed these black-eyed Susans growing in a California backyard. The flowers are exhibiting fasciation, or abnormal growth of the meristem of the plant. … Continue reading →

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Sun Turns On The Northern Lights

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Annette Heist

This week, we’ll talk about solar storms with David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and Doug Biesecker, a physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. They’ll tell us about recent activity on the sun, and … Continue reading →

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Beauty In Brains

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Annette Heist

Whenever I yank meat from a lobster or crack a crab claw, one thought always pops into my head: these look like giant spiders. It doesn’t stop me from eating them (delicious giant spiders), but it does make me think … Continue reading →

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Winter Nature Photo Contest: And The Winners Are….

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Annette Heist

Thanks to everyone who submitted a photo to our winter nature photo contest. We’re so impressed! (View the whole album here.) Below are the winning photographs–the ones that got the most “likes” on our Facebook page. (There was a three … Continue reading →

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Because Science Is Forever

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Annette Heist

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 →

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Beautiful Tumor

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Annette Heist

I love biology. And I love jewelry. But I’m not sure about the combination in Object Breast Cancer, a project by caraballo-farman (the artist pair Leonor Caraballo and Abou Farman) that turns tumor images into jewelry. The pair say the idea for … Continue reading →

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Picturing Medicine’s History

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Annette Heist

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 →

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