Axon: A game about growing neurons
Wellcome: Axon Game. Wellcome seems to have an interesting collection of educational web games. Axon, in particular, seems pretty fun to play (although my 5-year-old computer seems a bit too slow for it). They have more on their main games page. I was impressed with how well produced the games were, they all look pretty […]
135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema on Vimeo
[vimeo width=”500″ height=”331″]http://vimeo.com/45944121[/vimeo] Stunning…watch on a big screen if possible.
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 | […]
A new website to share scientific images
As part of our social media class at UC Santa Cruz, a couple of classmates and I came up with the idea to create a site where scientists could easily share striking scientific images. (All of us used to work in lab and take pretty scientific photos that we didn’t know where to share.) The […]
Videogames as art, or as a source of it
With videogames unabashedly mainstream, and titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 earning over $1 billion, or as much as the highest-grossing movies, it’s interesting to see whether videogames are evolving towards being considered art. You could certainly make that argument for the artistic value of some ‘indie’ games (Braid and Limbo come to […]
The early twentieth century in color
It’s weird, but when I think of any era before the 1950s, I always picture it in black-and-white. I guess it’s just the effect of all the old movies and photos. The technology for color photography was actually around from sometime in the late-1800s, it was just too expensive and the techniques weren’t perfected for […]
George Lois Tells the Stories Behind His Twelve Favorite Classic Esquire Covers — Vulture
George Lois Tells the Stories Behind His Twelve Favorite Classic Esquire Covers — Vulture. Ok, there’s nothing scientific about these Esquire covers, but they’re certainly great examples of of how powerful images. I just found it interesting how these covers capture so many iconic moments and eras – enough that even though I wasn’t around at […]
Eric Heller’s Gallery of Quantum Art
Eric J. Heller Gallery A gallery of images by Harvard physics and chemistry professor Eric J. Heller. According to his website, his digital abstract art is inspired by: “a world we cannot directly see; the quantum realm of electrons, atoms, and molecules. The strange, often chaotic quantum domain yields forms, which I use as a […]
Nick Veasey’s X-ray Photography
While looking around for more interesting images, I came across Nick Veasey’s work. He’s used X-ray photography to reveal the unfamiliar insides of many familiar objects. I thought many of his images were striking, and his gallery of X-ray photos is well worth checking out. Source: Nick Veasey’s website