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    X-Ray Flora And Fauna Come Together As Art

    July 7, 2014

    By Andrew Nunes, originally published in The Creators Project Blog

     

    Fairly uncommon among the visual arts canon, X-ray artworks certainly do pop up from time to time, ranging from colorized X-ray portraits to digital digital X-ray mirrors. While fauna— and sometimes eve...

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    “Species are only commas in a sentence”

    June 24, 2014

    I never knew that marine biology was a major literary influence for John Steinbeck, until I stumbled upon this beautiful passage:

     

     

    “Our own interest lay in relationships of animal to animal. If one observes in this relational sense, it seems apparent that species are o...

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    Neuro-structure, Architecture, and Sculpture

    April 7, 2014

    When I came across Megan McGlynn’s neuro-inspired wood sculptures, one piece grabbed my attention in particular – “Structure of the Mammalian Retina”. It is not the most visually stunning example of her work. In fact it may be a more understated piece. However the titl...

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    Futuristic Opera "Death and the Powers" Asks Life's Oldest Questions, with New Dimensions

    February 24, 2014

    Since the emergence of human consciousness, mankind has been grappling with two eternal questions:What is life and where did life come from?What is death and what happens after death?These questions gave rise to religion. They also endure in works of art.

     

    Paul Gaugain...

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    Life is a Braid in Spacetime

    February 3, 2014

    How to see yourself in a world where only math is real

     

    By Max Tegmark, Illustration by Chad Hagen. Originally published on Nautilus, January 9, 2014

     

    “Excuse me, but what’s the time?” I’m guessing that you, like me, are guilty of having asked this question, as if it wer...

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    The Camera’s Cusp: Alfonso Cuarón Takes Filmmaking to a New Extreme With Gravity

    January 23, 2014

    By Dan P. Lee, originally published in the September 30, 2013 issue of New York Magazine.

     

    Against a black screen, these words appear first.

     

    “At 600 km above planet Earth, the temperature fluctuates between +258 and -148 degrees Fahrenheit. There is nothing to carry sou...

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