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April 14, 2008
Brains, nukes, and beautiful math
- Mmmm, brains:
- "Check out the big brain on
BrettAlexander": Alexander Lervik scanned his own lobes & used a 3D printer to create the MyBrain lamp. [Via] - Eric Chudler has amassed a great collection of neuroscience stamps. [Via]
- "Check out the big brain on
- That very special glow:
- Taryn Simon produced a beautiful image of nuclear waste. In An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, "[h]er 70 color plates transform that which is off-limits or under-the-radar into a visible and intelligible form." See and read more here.
- Researchers are combining images to make "super-resolution" X-rays. [Via Ellis Vener]
- Space oddities:
- The universe's most powerful blast ever seen was witnessed last month.
- The ever-groovy BibliOdyssey shares the Astronomical Handbook of 1718.
- Math for visuals:
- Science News reports on visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork. (In my own life math has usually produced a different sort of visualization.) [Via]
- For more beauties, see the 2007 Mandelbrot contest winners. [Via]
- Mixing alcohol + high IQs = Photomicrographs of cocktails. [Via]
- New Yorkers have been chatting about biology-based art. (Somehow hacking lifeforms for the sake of cool visuals seems destined to end up in a future installment of Bad Idea Jeans.)
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