{"id":1019,"date":"2008-04-14T22:11:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/brains-nukes-and-beautiful-math.html"},"modified":"2008-04-14T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T22:11:12","slug":"brains_nukes_and_beautiful_math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/brains_nukes_and_beautiful_math\/","title":{"rendered":"Brains, nukes, and beautiful math"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Mmmm, <em>brains<\/em>:\n<ul>\n<li><em>&quot;Check out the big brain on <s>Brett<\/s> Alexander&quot;<\/em>: Alexander Lervik scanned his own lobes &amp; used a 3D printer to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lervik.se\/prod\/brain.asp\">the MyBrain lamp<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/26\/3d-printed-brain-lam.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Eric Chudler has amassed a great collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/chudler\/stamps\/stamps.html\">neuroscience stamps<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/11\/neuroscience-stamps.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>That very special glow:\n<ul>\n<li>Taryn Simon produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarynsimon.com\/tarynsimon2_nuclear.html\">beautiful image of nuclear waste<\/a>. In <em>An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar,<\/em>&#160;&quot;[h]er 70 color plates transform that which is off-limits or under-the-radar into a visible and intelligible form.&quot;&#160; See and read more <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.we-make-money-not-art.com\/~r\/wmmna\/~3\/223352874\/taryn-simons-talk-at-dld.php\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Researchers are combining images to make &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/channel\/tech\/dn13128?DCMP=NLC-nletterbanner&amp;nsref=dn13128\">super-resolution&quot; X-rays<\/a>. [Via Ellis Vener] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Space oddities:\n<ul>\n<li>The universe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/21\/universes-most-power.html\">most powerful blast ever seen<\/a> was witnessed last month.<\/li>\n<li>The ever-groovy BibliOdyssey shares the <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/astronomical-handbook-of-1718.html\">Astronomical Handbook of 1718<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Math for visuals:\n<ul>\n<li>Science News reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/articles\/20080216\/mathtrek.asp\">visualizations of mathematics create remarkable artwork.<\/a>&#160; (In my own life math has usually produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Scream\">different sort<\/a> of visualization.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2008\/02\/28\/math-on-display\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>For more beauties, see the 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalartcontests.com\/2007\/winners.php\">Mandelbrot contest winners.<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/2008\/01\/03\/benoit-mandelbrot-fractal-art-contest-2007-winners\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Mixing alcohol + high IQs = <a href=\"http:\/\/micro.magnet.fsu.edu\/cocktails\/index.html\">Photomicrographs of cocktails<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CoudalFreshSignals\/~3\/268365903\/photomicrograph_1.php\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New Yorkers have been chatting about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/dear-friends-and-readers-from.php\">biology-based art<\/a>.&#160; (Somehow hacking lifeforms for the sake of cool visuals seems destined to end up in a future installment of <a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoID=1813333988\">Bad Idea Jeans<\/a>.) \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmmm, brains: &quot;Check out the big brain on Brett Alexander&quot;: Alexander Lervik scanned his own lobes &amp; used a 3D printer to create the MyBrain lamp. [Via] Eric Chudler has amassed a great collection of neuroscience stamps. [Via] That very special glow: Taryn Simon produced a beautiful image of nuclear waste. In An American Index [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}