Experrinment

Making science more visible.

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Horned owl skull painting. Water color. What do you think?

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Lesley Ann Ercolano

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Ecinoderm Buttholes!

This is a unique collection of images. All anuses of echinoderms (sea cucumbers and starfish). These animals lie in the sand, anus up. It's just the logical thing to photograph them like that. Plus, with an animal with no eyes, what do you focus on as a nature photographer? Exactly. Enjoy more of my photography & tales of the underwater world in "Sex, Drugs and Scuba Diving".

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Classics, revisited, deforested. This is too brilliant.

"Seeking a way to visualize forests that have been lost, Ian Woodhouse struggled with how to draw attention to something that doesn’t exist. So he loaded up three recognizable paintings into Photoshop and did away with the trees. The results say a lot: a deforested world—whether on canvas or out in nature—is definitely missing something."

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STUNNING interactive by my dear friend Sophie Tintori. 6 Tips for how to be invisible in the ocean! 

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Today on #visualscience: The dark bisophere in the ocean crust might be the largest chemosynthetic ecosystem on earth. And perhaps the largest carbon sink. Which means it might be even more important than all the photosynthetic ecosystems we think rule supreme...Creatures of the light beware!

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Check out these seemingly accidental, crystal clear photographs by Jeremy Koreski. More on how to tell a whole story by bearing witness visually. 

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Via jtotheizzo, a couple of things I'm delighted to find. First, thekidshouldseethis, an amazing site of curated "not for kids videos for kids." Second, the video itself- a gem in Charley Harper-esque science storytelling (but Joe says it's inspired by, as always, Eames.) 

Via thekidshouldseethis, a truly beautiful animated look that explains the simple elegance of DNA, and how, with just four bases at its disposal, it can code for everything that we are and everything that we know:

Director William Samuel and London-based studio Territory made this beautifully illustrated explainer of DNA for BBC Knowledge and Learning. Read more about their inspiration (hint!) and the BBC’s forthcoming site here.

Science + design = win.

via FastCoDesign.

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Love this watercolor "sketch" by ashleybravin. It is so familiar looking, but entirely it's own thing. Very exciting, hope to see more of her work!

Quick sketch of a small songbird my neighbor found.

I believe it’s a Bell’s Vireo, but I’m not sure.

  UPDATE: Took it to a nearby nature center, and it was identified as a juvenile Townsend’s Warbler (very similar appearance). It has been bagged, tagged, and put into storage for research.

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"We are still in a moment where you can be really powerful as a woman, but you still need to make yourself more palatable in some way."

Catching up on SxSW sessions I wish I had been able to attend. The first one: is women's media too girly? 

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Chimpanzee facial anatomy - mixed media on mi-tientes

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J'adore. Anything that shows the articulated mouth...And all the muscles that contribute to a primate's showy emotional state!

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If we know how to read them, graveyards have the power to teach us about how past generations dealt with death. I love a Sunday afternoon stroll through a graveyard...this book promises to make that walk a lot juicier!

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After all, beneath the nail art and Vibram five toes, we're just a big ol' hole, humans. 

via scientificillustration:

Die Nemertinen des Golfes von Neapel by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Berlin :Verlag von R. Friedländer & Sohn,1895.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33664803

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I want to sit down to a four hour coffee with: Melanie Ide. Like me, she developed a love of museums at an early age with her dad, and now she's kickin' butt conveying ideas and stories with museum exhibits. Check her out in a recent WSJ article.

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Why Upworthy is afraid of their couch (because they heard about some scary stuff from @NRDCscience!)

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Bee venom contains a toxin that destroys HIV, which will be manufactured in a vaginal gel to prevent HIV transmission. Find out why this is a totally new way to deal with HIV at Discover Visual Science! 

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My latest on Visual Science: a recent study demonstrated a type of virus that had successfully stolen and adapted a bacteria's immune system, which it then uses to kill that bacteria! Another point to be made in the debate of whether viruses are actual living creatures or just "biological entities".