Saturday, February 4, 2012

SciArt Link Roundup #1



The Factual Enquirer invites you to drop by each Saturday afternoon for a roundup of the week's best science art findings. Scroll down and enjoy!


Astronomy
  • The surface of the moon as you've never seen it before 
  • Eye candy from the space race 


Botany
  • Nadav Bagim creates ethereal scenes on his kitchen counter with the help of a few backyard creatures
  • The art of plant evolution


Anatomy
  • Colorful tissue paper insides, scrunched and folded into shape
  • Singing skeletons: what it looks like to sing


Math
  • Mathematical functions as they really exist 
  • The strange and wonderful geometry of pasta


Genetics, Cell, and Microbiology
  • Hunter Cole brings her DNA to light with bioluminescent bacteria
  • Eshel Ben-Jacob cultures the most beautiful plates I've ever seen  
  • This is what you get when you grow your bacteria on color film 
  • Luke Jerram sculpts viruses into glass
  • Klari Reis gives us a Petri dish painting for every day of the year

General Science, History, and Illustration

  • The work of Charley Harper, illustrator of The Golden Book of Biology, on display at Drexel University through the end of February
  • Fritz Goro's photographs of science in the twentieth century
  • Princeton University's Art of Science 2011 winners
  • Linocuts of famous scientists on etsy
  • Marie Curie's life in cyanotype 
  • Vintage public health posters and propaganda




4 comments:

  1. Very cool Dana! Nadav Bagim's site is really neat!

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  2. I've just found this post. Thank you very much for linking to my scientist linocuts! I'll have to check out the rest of the blog, as your sciart roundup gathers things I love.

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  3. We're glad you found us, too! We hope you enjoy!

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