Tag: Science

Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science

Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science. A short piece I did for Popular Science magazine’s Megapixels section, which features a two-page spread photograph. The web version is available at PopSci.com at the link above. They’re usually pretty stunning, and I like this fluorescent image of dorsal closure in a fruit […]

A few links to other blogs: NCBI ROFL and Pwned Experiments

A couple of new sites that I’ve found entertaining: NCBI ROFL, which posts real scientific studies that are funny, often inadvertently. The creators of that site (which will soon move to Discover magazine‘s site) recently launched Pwned Experiments, a collection of funny failed experiments. It’s only just getting started, but I think it hits home […]

Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science

Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science. This is a section that appears every January in Popular Science, and tries to predict the top news stories of the upcoming year. I wrote two sections in it, ‘Life After Death?’ and ‘Births and Deaths’ (on pages 2 and 5 respectively), but I just posted […]

FYI: Can Microwave Technology be Used to Make Food Cold? | Popular Science

FYI: Can Microwave Technology be Used to Make Food Cold? | Popular Science. Another FYI, this one from the January issue of Popular Science, though the link above gets you to the web version. They really do answer quite a variety of questions in the FYI section, it’s always kind of fun contacting an expert […]

Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the pentatonic scale

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/5732745[/vimeo] Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival. Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009. Worth watching, just to see how the audience […]

FYI: Why Don’t Loud Snorers Wake Themselves Up? | Popular Science

FYI: Why Don’t Loud Snorers Wake Themselves Up? | Popular Science. I wrote a couple of articles for Popular Science’s FYI section, including the one above. In the section, experts answer somewhat unusual questions, which is always kind of fun when you’re interviewing them. 🙂 Anyway, this one was in the December print issue, and […]

Gallery: The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science

Gallery: The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science. Popular Science has built a name for itself for having some striking visuals, and this web gallery collects a whole bunch of amazing scientific images from the print magazine and their website. A must-see for anyone who likes pretty pictures! Includes pictures from some of […]

Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009 | Popular Science

Wellcome Awards: The Most Stunning Medical Images of 2009 | Popular Science. Another gallery that I made for PopSci.com, with the best medical images from this year’s Wellcome Awards. A stunning collection of images which features, among other things, aspirin, cancer cells, skin, bone, and intestine, that all look unexpectedly artistic. Follow the link to […]

Gallery: This Years Most Amazing Microscopic Photography | Popular Science

Gallery: This Years Most Amazing Microscopic Photography | Popular Science. A gallery of beautiful pictures from the latest edition of Nikon’s Small World photography competition, which showcases the best photographs taken through microscopes. Amina, another intern, and I created the gallery and did the write-ups, was fun seeing all the images in beautiful high-res…Again, the […]