Spaztastic Scientist

@themugnottaken

HI! If you are reading this you have stumbled on a blog made by a biology and literary nerd (this is your cue to run). If you've stayed for this sentence then welcome! I'm hoping to post interesting things that happen in my life as a New Yorker living in D.C. There could be extreme amounts of nerdy references, but I hope that's ok. Love and Kitties, Iliana

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I just supported Serious Illness Care Workshop on @ThunderclapIt // @NASEM_Health

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Robin Boyd’s Featherston House Lauren Bamford

From the Thames & Hudson published a book: Indoor Green : Living with Plants by Lauren Bamford.

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Iqbal Amirdha

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Hey, Archy. What type of landscape(s) do you like the most? And why? Thanks! And thanks for running such a great blog.

Thanks!

I am not sure how to respond so I will just list six of the many places (landscapes) on my bucket list:

Ashikaga Flower Park: Ashikaga, Japan

Paro Taktsang: Bhutan

Glowworm Caves: Waitomo, New Zealand

Cappadocia, Turkey

Arashiyama: Kyoto, Japan

Salar de Uyuni: Daniel Campos, Bolivia

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Apartment in Milan by Studio Tenca & Associati

Designed in 2016 by Studio Tenca & Associati, this contemporary apartment is located in Milan, Italy.

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Porcelain buttons (20th century). American or European.

Images and text courtesy The Met.

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/115510

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Waterlilies.

Illustrations taken from ‘The Waterlilies’ by Henry S. Conard. Published 1905 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Brigham Young University

https://archive.org/details/waterliliesmonog00cona

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The Taming of the Shrew [watch]

Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov

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My favorite active New Yorker cartoonist Ed Steed designed these hilarious posters for the 2016 USA presidential candidates. I love how accurately they catch the tone of each candidate’s personality and policies, from Ted Cruz’s intense evangelicalism to Bernie Sanders’ embrace of youthful counterculture.

You can find the source of these posters here.

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This is the best thing I’ve seen this week, oh my god.

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Very excited to share a new comic I made with @annasellheim (The first part by Anna, the second part by me)

We both really believe that @plannedparenthood is vital for women’s health, so to show our support we made a comic about our lovely experiences there.

If you have any questions or just want to support PP, visit https://www.plannedparenthood.org/

Find more of my work on my website or twitter

Find Anna’s work on her website or twitter

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Stateless Gohar Dashti

From the artist:

In every corner of the world, devastation of war, massacres, oppression, disease and death are the cause of widespread human disorders with no imaginable ending. When disasters force people to migration, where would they be welcomed with open arms? Hoping for a better life, they struggle in a never-ending limbo, a strange place with no identity that does not belong to them.

Maybe it is only at this point, when nature can be a safe haven for these refugees. Sky becomes the ceiling and mountains the walls of their new home; because Nature is the only promising place that shelters these people, an eternal and everlasting refuge.

Images and text via

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Audio Visual art object by vtol is a homemade projector with a robotic controlled flexible lens which cam produce abstract light visuals:

The object works autonomously, by algorithm with many accidental events tied to feedback, with sensors defining the position of various mechanical elements in relation to the range of their movement. The sound part has up to 4 voices which depend on the activity of various elements. The sound is also in direct interaction with actual position of those elements, and basically is voicing the process of movement, brightness of light, and intensity of the piece.

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