More Science in the Sunshine State
In the Sunshine State, science is ready to bloom. On December 5, I attended the official grand opening of the new, $64 million, 100,000-square-foot Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience in Jupiter—and the first of the Max Planck Institutes outside of Europe. The institute will focus on the human brain, which scientific director and CEO [...]
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Willy Chyr’s Neuroplastic Dreams – pop!
February 5th, 2012 |
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Willy Chyr is a fine artist and designer interested in emergent properties and systems: and he sometimes works in balloons. I’ll be presenting an interview with Chyr here on Symbiartic soon; we met recently over coffee and from such fun, complicated work, Willy is refreshingly unpretentious and creatively versatile. To inflate your expectations of his [...]
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5 Reasons Your Camera Won’t Steal My Job
July 12th, 2011 |
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By far the most common question I get when I tell people that I am a scientific illustrator is one variation (some more tactful than others) of, “They still use illustrators? Why don’t they just photograph everything?” In fact, it’s a great question. Although photography is fantastically impressive and can offer glimpses into worlds both [...]
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