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Winter, Books and..Science

Drawing inspiration from The Brain Pickings, I noted down in my diary a list of books that might become Christmas presents to myself

November 26, 2012
The Communicating Bacteria Dress

a textile-based artwork that takes the form of a Regency style dress stained with bacterial pigments and patterned by antibiotics.

September 6, 2012
Biotech Hobbyist: instructions for bedroom and kitchen practitioners

An on-line magazine for beginners in biotechnology, with all the practical advice on how to install a self-made laboratory in your own home, where to get used discounted equipment and what should be the first experiments.

August 18, 2012
Aesthetic Vegetables

After a month break for Old Salt, it is time for something pretty and simple. In the 19th century, French company Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie produced a glorious album of colour illustrations of French garden vegetables, including beets, potatoes, muskmelon and strawberries, The Vegetable Garden, 1850–1895, which has thankfully now been reproduced by Taschen. Prior to…

July 21, 2012
Critical Art Ensemble

exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism

June 20, 2012
Synthetic Biology

over-praising but very explanatory animation by Bridge8

June 20, 2012
F.R.U.I.T Network by FUTUREFARMERS

Cultivating Consciousness since 1995

June 10, 2012
Performance, theatre and science by Nicola Triscott

No one goes to the theatre or to an art gallery to find out about science. At least, there are surely better ways to find out about science.

May 28, 2012
Adam Brandejs and zipped organs

A man getting ready for work unzips his chest, washes his intestines in the sink, and zips back up

May 24, 2012
Euthanasia Coaster

Deadly Euphoria by Julijonas Urbonas: G-Force power shuts brain down due to it moving too fast.

May 21, 2012

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