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Collaborative Water Solutions
Following a cross-country trip and a series of works in which she explored the nature of public space, performance artist Betsy Damon realized the importance of social networks in the creation of art ...
Biomorphology and Water Sustainability
Andrew Parker, a zoology faculty member at the University of Sydney, built his career exploring ways to model optical technology on the evolutionary adaptations seen in the eyes of animals. He has turned his interest in ...
The New Ghost Map
In the 1850s, efforts to control a severe cholera outbreak in London led to the birth of modern medical geography. A careful examination of the effects of the disease, which included tracing its ...
Science and the “Protected Commons”
Australian non-profit CAMBIA promotes research and technological collaboration in the life sciences as a means of nurturing innovation and making current research more widely available to developing communities. The group's
Before the Mast
The Sea Education Association (SEA) creates an intriguing study-abroad experience by blending an intensive interdisciplinary course load with shipboard lab activities. Drawing most of its students from the physical sciences, SEA begins with a ...
An Open Book
An exhibition supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington Project for the Arts in the 1990s used seminal titles in science writing as the inspiration for works that re-imagined the text, ...
It’s a Small World
Nikon's Small World Competitionhighlights the beauty of the world under the microscope by inviting researchers from a wide range of disciplines to submit their best microphotography. Images are judged based on both ...
Genetically Designing DIVs
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome. Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively simple. Have ...
Bio Art
Bioluminescence--especially in fireflies--has inspired examinations of complexity and synchronicity, as well as a general sense of wonder. In 2002, Montana State University's School of Art and the Center for Biofilm Engineering decided to use bioluminescent ...
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
Aquatic Freeware
The software package Ecopath with Ecosim, available from the University of British Columbia, gives researchers and policy analysts a tool to model marine ecosystems and explore their possible evolution. The foundation of the ...
Where do ideas come from?
I was reading for The Rise of Modern Science and it references Einstein and his theory of relativity. It raised an interesting question about how Einstein could have come up with ...
Back and forth: Ecce Homology
I happened across this post at information aesethetics that offers a nice juxtaposition of the previous post on using genetic algorithms to generate fonts. Here font becomes the expression of ...
Casual Evaluation - Shaked not stirred
I'm a big fan of thinking about casual evaluation. As I think Piaget would agree, humans are natural experimentation engines. We actively continue to investigate the external world to better learn about ...
Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can surely use ...