Did I mention in an earlier entry that science is beauty?
I didn’t know the half of it. Princeton University has started an annual Art of Science competition. Take a few minutes to look through the entries for this year. Astonishing, amazing, and beautiful.
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August 24th, 2005 at 1:01 am
That was truly inspiring and… oh dear Flying Italian Food Monster is that Einstein with a woman’s body? You know, you can’t claw out your mind’s eye! Thanks for that image!
But really, that was very lovely. Incidentally, my personal favorite is that “blooming” rock formation.
August 24th, 2005 at 6:09 am
beautiful examples of “visual” science art. But there are other not so visible examples of science art, like Maxwell equations for example, is like all Beethoven’s symphonies in just four lines!!
August 24th, 2005 at 7:37 am
Phil–
At the University of Chicago there is a contest called “The Sights and Sounds of Science” which is sponsored by the Materials Research Center.
http://mrsec.uchicago.edu/s3_project/
August 24th, 2005 at 8:05 am
SWEEEET!!!
August 24th, 2005 at 10:34 am
Those ants look like candy!
August 24th, 2005 at 11:08 am
Great idea. Your choice is my favorite image. It should be accompanied with your Cassini Saturn sounds.
August 24th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
The Genetics Society of America gives out awards for the best published Drosophila images each year. You can view the finalists from 2004 here:
http://www.drosophila-conf.org/genetics/gsa/dros/dros2004/2004-image_awards.shtml
These images are especially neat because they haven’t been doctored (or, at least, they should not have been doctored) because doctored images cannot pass peer review. The colors all come from techniques such as flourescent tags on proteins or antibody staining visualized with special imaging technologies.
August 24th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
Wow! Now I know where Andy Partridge of XTC got the line “and I don’t want to see your mooney mooney face” in the song “Another Satellite.”
August 24th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
Nature and Science both need the silence to be looked at and admired…
Those pictures were breathtaking, and nothing is as wonderful as taking a moment and sitting silently in among nature
August 24th, 2005 at 10:31 pm
Beauty is truth, truth beauty…
January 11th, 2006 at 11:27 am
[…] liked that?.. that is M51 in Canes Venatici. This is taken from the entries for Princeton’s Art of Science competetion. The entire display is here. (link via badastronomy) […]
March 3rd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Reminds me of a horizontal lava lamp.