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Collagist and book artist Lynn Skordal has a fantastic collage series, Scientific Re-Illustration, where prim and proper Victorian figures find their way into the droll world of detailed scientific illustrations. It’s all deliberately absurd and simply hilarious.
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Kapil Bhagat created a whole series of these fantastic minimalist scientist posters for India’s National Science Day. Less is more, especially when it comes to poster design. But the key to keeping a minimalist poster from being boring is creating a little joke or pun. The “aha!” moment is when people fall in love with the design and Bhagat [...]
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This whole love thing, it can be uplifting, or it can pull us down like gravity. Ai Hasegawa‘s Extreme Environment Love Hotel reimagines the love hotel as a centrifugal mechanism with Jupiter’s gravity, which is more than double (2.34 times, to be exact) of what we’re used to on Earth. This means, for instance, that [...]
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Do you ever find yourself at a coffee shop wondering what that attractive person ordered in front of you but you are too afraid to ask for fear of sounding uninformed and uncool? Well, have I got the solution for you. Check out this list of coffee drinks with clever nicknames. Try the Dirty Chai [...]
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Hmm, we wonder how accurate this is. Phrenology, which was big during the Victorian period, basically refers to the study of the relationship between character and the shape of the skull. Doctor’s desks typically had a model of a head that segregated areas according to the senses these are associated with — with a inkwell [...]
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Brian Johnson photographed a testosterone melt specimen some years ago with the help of a Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera attached to a Leitz SM-Pol polarizing microscope. The bands and patterns from the crystal growth (yes, testosterone crystals) make for quite a psychedelic sight with all these blazing rainbow swirls of every colour imaginable. Possibly explains [...]
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We stumbled across this fascinating project by science writer Carl Zimmer, who, in 2007, wondered on his blog if scientists were hiding tattoos of their science and got his answer from many of them — and yes they were. Science Ink basically is a pictorial trove of Zimmer’s favorite tattoos of science that span disciplines [...]
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Swiss artist Roman Signer is part-mad scientist and part-artistic genius. His work is referred to as ‘action sculptures’, which are essentially combinations of science experiments and photography. His incredibly intriguing pieces are a unique take on the realm of experimental photography.
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Just so happens that artist Nathalie Miebach was taking astronomy classes at Harvard and learning to weave baskets at the same time when it occurred to her that she could basically weave baskets to interpret data in a three-dimensional space. Since then, she’s translated all sorts of scientific data from astronomy, ecology and meteorology — [...]
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Get ready for a weird and fascinating experience. In this clip, you will experience one of the freaky quirks of the brain. A lot of explanation isn’t neccesary – just keep your eyes on the cross in the middle. Fullscreen mode works best. If you are of the sceptical kind, feel free to watch the [...]
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A new study has shown that male rats, unlike their human counterparts, have more of the Foxp2 protein, that makes them more vocal compared to female rats. This means most talking rodents in movies are male — evidently scriptwriters have their facts down pat.
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Believe it or not, studies show that the popular concept of beer causing weight gain is nothing more than a myth. In fact, some have even gone as far as to say that when consumed reasonably and consistently, beer actually has nutritional benefits. It contains antioxidants, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. And as for the high [...]
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Sometimes you have to sacrifice in the name of science. And Grizzly Bear takes that concept to a whole new level in this music video from their most recent album Shields. The Brooklyn band’s chill vocals and haunting melodies are contrasted against jarring scenes of self-mutilation. One second a man is collecting plant samples from [...]
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Why do we blush? Do rogue waves really exist? Can evolution outpace climate change? All these answers and more can be found in The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science. This beautifully illustrated book will answer all your most nagging questions while simultaneously bringing a smile to your [...]
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In the mood for a little entertaining science lesson? Well here are some adorable hamsters willing to teach you a thing or two about centrifugal force. Guaranteed to make your day so much better.
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