Organizations and web sitesThe Huffington Post has a page worth looking at called art meets science
Group Science Writers blog Last Word on Nothing Art and NeuroscienceASCI (Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.) This is a nonprofit organization founded in 1988 and based in New York City. Fro their web site "ASCI was instrumental in re- invigorating the art&tech field in the United States during the 1990’s and helped birth the nascent field of art&science via four ArtSci international symposia from 1998-2002".
Go to neuropathology on this site to view images from comparative case material. Greg A Dunn is a neuroscientist and artist who's images inspired by the brain's cellular anatomy are really beautiful - samples below and lots of pretty stuff worth checking out on his web site.
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Perception, light and visionCephalopods (click the video to pause it)
You can hear more about cephalopod research by clicking the linked imaged below.
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Art and the Environment
Look at these.... So incredible.
Theo Jansen is the artist behind Standbeest - visit his website HERE
Theo Jansen is the artist behind Standbeest - visit his website HERE
Art and Anatomy
See the most beautiful illustrations of avian anatomy and more by clicking HERE to go to the artist, Katrina van Grouw 's website.
Art and Medicine
Forensic Photography as Art - click on the image below to hear photographer Angela Strassheim describe her work.
Below is a video of forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht taking a tour of the Real Human Bodies Exhibit
(see also Forensic Pathology page)
(see also Forensic Pathology page)
Art and History
Voynich manuscriptDiscovered in Villa Mondragone near Rome in 1912.
Carbon-14 dated to the 15th century by scientists at the University of Arizona in 2009. Currently held in the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Learn all about the amazing discovery and history of this text - it was found by a book dealer from New York (Voynich) while looking through a collection of rare books, the text has never been deciphered. The book is filled with incredible illustrations of plants, symbols and diagrams - a really nice video well worth watching can be found by clicking here: Video on the manuscript Interested in natural science illustration? This video to the right describes and shows examples of the collection at the American Museum of Natural History. |
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Antikythera Ship Wreck Sculptures and Artifacts
After the roman ship wreck was discovered in 1900, a total of 108 objects were retrieved in a series of dives. The pieces are predominantly statues, pottery and tableware dating from the 1st century BC. They include marble and bronze figures of Greek gods, philosophers, athletes, dancers, and horses. READ AND SEE MORE on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution web site; and visit this web site to tour a gallery exhibition of the artifacts retrieved from the wreck.
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Some of the images above are listed in creative commons and have been
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People to listen to
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Oliver Sacks
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Nora Volkow
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Peter Ustinov
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Jill Tarter
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Richard Feynman
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Sylvia Earle
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Robert Ballard
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Dr Martin Luther King
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Sir John B Gurdon
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Jon Stewart
Bob Dylan |
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Bob Dylan
Sarah Weddington |
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Carolyn Porco
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Gloria Steinem
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Brower's photo gallery
Small Collections - Pattern and Color, presented in these images taken from nature, art, and science determine qualities as divergent as beauty and disease. |
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Places to goItaly: Museo Di Storia Naturale
The Sistine Chapel, Vatcian City Venice Murano Croatia: Plitvice Lakes Greece: National Archaeological Museum |
UK: Leadenhall Market
Natural History Museum Hadrian's Wall: Carlislie Castle Brampton and Lanercost Priory Vindolanda Housesteads Brunton Turret and Hexham Corbridge Newcastle Upon Tyne |
Music Selection
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Indulgence Watch
Art and science of cooking with Paula Poundstone
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A DARK DAY for western intellectualism
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