Microscopia: A web game

The Friday Game: Microscopia – Edge Magazine. A quick little diversion, Microscopia was apparently created in just 48hrs. It sort of simulates what it’s like to look at bacteria under a microscope. A simplistic take on it, to be sure, but it’s an interesting idea given how simple the design is. Given that I did a […]

Wellcome Image Awards 2012

The Wellcome Image Awards 2012 winners are here, stunning as always. I think my favorite is the  image of caffeine crystals shown above (by Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy). The Arabidopsis seedling, mothfly and bacterial biofilm look really cool as well, but they’re all worth checking out–here is the winners’ gallery. [Wellcome Image Awards 2012 | […]

Lizard Multimedia

This quarter I worked on a lot of multimedia projects, all focused on the same researchers I wrote my feature on. They’ll all be up on ScienceNotes 2011 soon, but in the meanwhile I thought I would put them up here. First up, a revised version of my Slideshow, about Alison Davis’s work on lizards […]

Researchers find lizards that form families – A slideshow

A short slideshow created for class, created in SoundSlide. It’s based on my feature article on lizard researchers at UC Santa Cruz who found that Desert Night Lizards live in families, unusual behavior for a reptile. It also talks about how they’re studying the effects of global warming on these lizards. I created it first […]

One last scientific publication, for old time’s sake

Nearly two years after I graduated, some of the last work I did as a graduate student testing antibiotic derivatives on Toxoplasma to see if they might eventually lead to anti-malarials, has finally resulted in a Journal of Medicinal Chemistry paper on which I’m a middle author. I think this is probably the last publication […]

How Visual Illusions Make Your Brain Flip

How Visual Illusions Make Your Brain Flip. Interesting research on trying to identify the region of the brain which causes you to switch between two ways of viewing certain optical illusion. The study points to the superior parietal lobe being involved, but I found the study method even more interesting than the results. Check out […]

This year’s best microscopic photos

The Year’s Best Smallest Photography. Another year, another set of stunning microscopic images from Nikon’s Small World contest. Check out some of the favorite photos of Wired’s Betsy Mason, who also judged this year’s contest. I can’t believe it’s been a year since I posted last year’s winners for PopSci.com, here’s that post as a […]

Should genetic testing be regulated? The latest news on the debate.

Risky secrets – Blog – Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI). A nice round-up of the latest issues concerning direct-to-consumer genetic testing. And since it’s on the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative website, it also talks about the problems of using these tests for autism genes. Definitely worth a read. Some highlights: A flurry of […]

Cell Craft: A browser game teaches you how cells work

I played through Cell Craft a few days back. It’s a flash game that can be played in your browser (though there’s also a downloadable version), and teaches you how cells work. It’s a fairly entertaining strategy game where you deploy all your cell’s organelles to defend it from attacking viruses and allow it to […]

How Blind People See the Internet

Giz Explains: How Blind People See the Internet. This is something that I’ve wondered about, as we rely more and more on the internet and even more so on touchscreen devices (some of which are apparently more accesible than older ones with buttons…who knew.) Nice article explaining how blind people navigate the internet and touchscreens. […]