Art in science

Thanks to Carl Zimmer for posting a link on his Facebook page to this.

An artist by the name Luke Jerram has a website/project devoted to glass sculptures based on microbiology. The most beautiful one for me is the HIV sculpture. It’s frighteningly disconcerting to see, and I think that’s some of its appeal.

Viruses-Lukejerram

The Greatest Show on Earth

Dawkins gives an intro to his new book (which I have already pre-ordered).

Thought of the day

Science is all about reproducibility. If you can’t reproduce your data, it’s all a load of horseshit.

~My genetics professor