There’s been a lot of focus this week on the role women play in comics. It’s nothing new to see an ill-proportioned babe in an awkward pose gracing the pages of my favorite superhero books. Maybe it’s something I’ve just grown used to, or maybe I’m a traitor to my kind, but it’s not often […]
Grad student-turned-visual artist Greg Dunn studies neuroscience at theย University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, he creates these almost-landscape prints of neurons–extreme close-ups of the hippocampus, retinas and plant-like pyramidals. You can find (and purchase) more of Greg Dunn’s work on his website, including these along with some actual landscapes with real trees and flowers, […]
As a person with a sleep cycle that is best described as erraticย (but more accurately, nonexistent), I’m fascinated by body clock studies. In this short TED Talk, Jessa Gamble talks about the influence of circadian rhythms on culture, and vice versa. In today’s world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only […]
Have you played with Google Labs’ NGram Viewer? It’s an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words. […]
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This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award. While you may or may not agree with his reasoning, Sir Ken Robinson does raise a lot of good points on why the current education system just […]
Let the fight begin! ;) [Source: Unknown | Via 9gag]
As previously mentioned, I was at Comic Con Montreal 2011 last weekend to shoot pictures of costumed people, and while the event wasn’t exactly perfect (I had to wait in line for almost 2 hours to get in, even though I had purchased my ticket online a few days before,) It was still pretty darn […]
During a routine scan on a distant planet, a young space scout finds romance with a female pilot. But when peril strikes the two star-crossed explorers, he must face what lurks in the darkness of the planet to rescue the girl. Danger Planet is an animated short created by students at Southern Adventist University in […]
By Meredith Placko Contributing Writer, [GAS] It’s been the talk of the comic book world for months, DC Comics relaunch of their universe. Over the month of September they will release 52 new issues that will reboot certain characters origins and introduce us to some new and exciting super humans. There’s a lot a person […]