The other day, my own hypocrisy slapped me in the face. I was looking at a quantum illustration. One for which I had just encouraged an artist to develop a dimensional and detailed representation of a particle, that—by the author’s own admission—may or may not exist. And if it does exist, we certainly know nothing [...]

  As the worlds of science and illustration continue to show, sometimes non-traditional forms of  illustration – the whimsical, the mysterious, the abstract – are the best ways to draw in a new audience to scientific ideas. The book You Are Stardust by author Elin Kelsey and illustrator Soyeon Kim (hey! We were students together!) transcends typical illustration [...]

Marlin Peterson’s spectacular trompe l’oiel of two opiliones (commonly known as daddy long legs) atop Seattle’s Armory is bound to give arachnophobes a run for their money. Trompe l’oeil (literally “trip the eye”) is a classic mural technique that is used to create the illusion of a three-dimensional object on a flat surface. Because of [...]

After reading Scicurious’ and Kate Clancy’s posts on science outreach and what a drag it is on already overworked and underpaid scientists, I feel like climbing to the top of the highest mountain in Whoville and exclaiming, “We are here! We are here! We are here! We are here!” For those of you who missed [...]