The Tissue Culture & Art Project is an Australian collective of scientists/artists that uses tissue growing technologies as a method for artisitic expression. From the manifesto: These are parts of …
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Earth Day, April 22nd, was invented in the ’60s by Senator Gaylord Nelson. The first official Earth day was in 1970 in the US, and the concept has since spread …
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Science CommunicationWriting, images, and storytelling
Science blogging examined: What do bloggers know about extinction?
A short article in last week’s Science investigates the accuracy of scientific facts in blogs. Well, actually they only investigated one fact: extinction rates. They report that scientific consensus has …
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All prejudices about scientists and their terrible writing skills turned out to be untrue upon a visit to LabLit.com! I am simultaneously jealous at and in love with all the …
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The University of New South Wales in Australia has a Music Acoustics research group, which studies some of the specifics of music physics. Their elaborate website is a fun time …
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This is an edited version of an article I wrote in May 2005 for another blog. In the popular TV show CSI a team of forensic investigators solve mysterious crimes …