- Woodcuts are sort of like fingerprints, I think. Bryan Nash Gill rolls ink over the whorls of giant trunk segments and presses them slowly by hand.
- Perroquet is a project inspired by nature documentaries and science photography. Check out both the still images of scarlet macaw plumage and the slow-motion videos of parrots in flight.
- I feel better knowing that Alexander Graham Bell sketched as badly as I do ("This is a man!").
- Product design meets natural, biological forms.
- These colorful MRI images suggest that our neural connections form a three-dimensional, grid-like structure. Some of Van Weeden's colleagues argue that his hypothesis is too simplified, but the images are beautiful.
- Columbia's stop-motion animation on water conservation is really well-done.
- Slow-motion water drop.
- The earth's ocean currents in a NASA animation.
- A brilliant art project constructed with only soap, ferrofluid, and a magnet. More ferrofluid art here, too.
- Robert Krulwich explains why you can't walk in a straight line while blindfolded.
- A giant bird nest installation at Clemson University's Botanical Gardens from 2005.
- A synesthete imagines the work of John Coltrane --plus other visual ventures into music.
- Ever wonder how a medical illustration is created? Here's your answer.
- Allan Forsyth's floral photography is so vibrant, the petals almost reach off the screen.
- Social networking for scientists: this app allows you to keep track of your friends as cells (or organelles, it looks like).
- The strange, pretty landscapes of ice structures, up close
- These blown-glass organs are filled with inert gases so that they can conduct electricity and glow.
- The Leidenfrost effect both fascinates and terrifies me. This man banks on a layer of tiny bubbles for split-second protection against liquid nitrogen on his bare skin. (Other crazy people have tried a similar thing with molten lead.)
- These snow monkeys are endearing (and the photography is excellent).
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