Take a look at this post where I posted photos of butterfly eyes up close.
Check out this article about paintings done by Conrad Martens on The HMS Beagle.
I recently came across this really interesting art project illustrating urban weeds. What a really unique way to make people pay attention to all those small plants that seem to survive in the most unlikely places.
It also reminds me of the poem Identity by Julio Noboa Polanco:
Let them be as flowers,
always watered, fed, guarded, admired,
but harnessed to a pot of dirt.
I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed,
clinging on cliffs, like an eagle
wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.
To have broken through the surface of stone,
to live, to feel exposed to the madness
of the vast, eternal sky.
To be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea,
carrying my soul, my seed,
beyond the mountains of time or into the abyss of the bizarre.
I’d rather be unseen, and if
then shunned by everyone,
than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,
growing in clusters in the fertile valley,
where they’re praised, handled, and plucked
by greedy, human hands.
I’d rather smell of musty, green stench
than of sweet, fragrant lilac.
If I could stand alone, strong and free,
I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed.
My next Portfolio Post is on the model organism Drosophila melanogaster or the fruit fly. It will be an ongoing post – updates will be posted to the blog.
I recently learned about the Nature Graphics Tumblr. The posts include information about the design problem and decision making that went into the final image. Check it out!
Check out these beautiful drawings by Barbara Bernát showing European animals and related plants on fictional euro currency. I think it would be great to have this type of reminder about science and biology on such an everyday object.
Be sure to scroll to the last image where you can see the bones of a bird under UV light in the currency – really awesome!
My next Portfolio Post is on Green Fluorescent Protein. It will be an ongoing post – updates will be posted to the blog.
Just found out about this MITx course in June 2015.