One of the central works in the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until 12 May), Victimless Leather, a small jacket made up of embryonic stem cells taken from mice, has died. The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened.
Optical Allusions by Jay Hosler tells the story of a disembodied brain who accidentally loses the eye of newt (Notopthalmus viridescens to be exact- that’s apparently a newt that can regenerate it’s lenses) belonging to the three witches from MacBeth. The comic narrarating his adventures recovering it, which are amusing and inventive as well as educational as to the evolution and function of the eye, is interspersed with short prose explanations of the scientific concepts alluded to. I can’t be bothered to say anymore, good thing there are real bloggers out there (1, 2, 3). I’ll just close by saying that if you haven’t read Hosler’s The Sandwalk Adventures yet, you should run screaming to buy it now. (clicky disclosure: link is to author’s online store, where the books cost almost half again what they costs at various other online places whose names have probably already occured to you)
Directing your attention to this blog entry directing you to other blog entries, which are very cool in a buggy/sciencey way, say I.
The spider (an adult male Xysticus) found the and on a bottle cap full of honey, from which he was unable to escape.
Originally uploaded by Lord V
According to this Wikipedia article, at around 5 pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2008:
“Dragonflies typically eat mosquitoes, little peoples, and other small insects…”
“Little peoples” linking here.
According to the bloggotubes, it was an ancient roman mechanical astronomical computer. It looks like this:
(wikimedia)
…and here’s a reconstruction:
(photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty, from news article)
Here’s the Guardian article, wikipedia, an informative link, and another informative link.
Large assassin bug - a mimic of tarantula hawk wasps, Pepsis spp, Peru
Originally uploaded by artour_a
Parasitoids use polyembryony to protect the reproductive larvae with soldier larvae, sometimes producing over 2,000 individuals from a single egg.
Link to Nature paper from which image comes.
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