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Free Downloadable Science Brushes for Adobe Illustrator
I’ve used Adobe Illustrator for years, but I didn’t use brushes very much. This weekend I watch the Lynda.com course “Creating Custom Brushes”. My library gives me free access to Lynda.com through...
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Moments in Research: A Poster Series
I love poster design. I love decorating my house with See America and WPA posters; I love designing posters about my passions. I haven’t posted any science designs because I find science hard to...
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Turing Patterns: What do a leopard’s spots, vegetation in arid zones, and the...
Please excuse my inconsistent posting of late, I have been deep down the rabbit hole of science. Last week, I attended the Society of Industrial and Applied Math (SIAM) dynamical systems conference....
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#Trypod: Favorite podcasts
March is “Trypod” Month, where podcasts are asking enthusiasts to recommend their favorites. I only started listening to podcasts last summer, but I already have several favorites. One of the reasons I...
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Supermoon
If you haven’t heard already, today is a “supermoon.” Today, the moon is closer to the Earth than it has been since 1948. Visually, that means it will be bigger and brighter than usual. Intellectually,...
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Fractal Art
Here in Albuquerque, mathematical art adorns the schools. We are the Fractal Capital of the World. Fractals are a kind of math that considers the multi-scale aspects of nature. In school, we learn...
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Surprises out west: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Last week, I traveled through eastern Colorado, hitting Pike’s Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, and the Great Sand Dunes. But the biggest surprise was a tiny national monument in central...
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The impermanence of color: the treachery of entropy
Color seems like an easy, marvelous thing when you get that 64 color box of Crayolas as a kid. 64 sticks of pure color. But, of course, color is complicated. It can be impermanent, difficult to obtain,...
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More Awesome NASA Space Travel Posters
Thinking about a trip to Mars or Ceres? Book today! Don’t forget to ask about your Pi Day discount. NASA is in the travel agent business again! JPL released travel posters for Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and...
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The FODMAP Diet: An IBS diet based upon peer-reviewed science
I’m extremely lactose intolerant. What this means, biologically, is that I no longer produce enough lactase to process lactose sugar. Because I can’t process lactose in my small intestine, it moves on...
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Book now with the Exoplanet Travel Bureau
(You may have a wait while the technology for your flight is developed.) A lot of my first reading as a child was astronomy books and magazines. When I was little, my brother told me there was a black...
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What is an engineering PhD?
Sorry I have fallen way off of schedule. Since my last posting, my husband defended and graduated with his PhD, and we visited out new city and bought our first house. So it’s been extremely exciting...
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Book review: What If the Moon Didn’t Exist? (Neil F. Comins 1993)
What If the Moon Didn’t Exist? is a book that asks just that– what would Earth be like if the ancient collision that led to our present-day moon never happened and the Earth had no moon? Comins, a...
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Fun Science: Two metals in contact do fun stuff
Have you ever made lasagna, and later discovered black spots or holes on the tin foil you used to cover it? Those spots are due to bimetallic or galvanic corrosion. Galvanic corrosion is an...
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Book review: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday (Alan Hirshfeld 2006)
Rating: 5/5 Michael Faraday is the man who showed that light, electricity, and magnetism were interconnected forces. The farad is named after him; you know a scientist is important when they’ve got...
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Mechanical computers blow my mind
Before the digital era, there were still computers. These mechanical computers performed their tasks using clever set-ups instead of operations on ones and zeros. The video embedded below is an analog...
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Art and Math: Poemotion (Takahiro Kurashima)
Poemotion and Poemotion 2 books of astonishingly beautiful patterns. They are beautiful because they are so simple and yet I struggle to describe them here. The book comes with a lined overlay, and...
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Fun science: An easy fractal to make at home
Viscous fingering is a fractal pattern that occurs when a less viscous (or thick) fluid spreads through a more viscous (or thick) fluid. Such systems are present in oil extraction, when we pump one...
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Color
Color runs through our lives in many ways– it’s how we pick out the ripest strawberries and cherries, it’s how we put together an outfit, it sets a mood and conveys symbolism. Red is passion and blood,...
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Food and science: Our international food
The food we eat today may have been grown on the farm next door or in Chile or in Ethiopia. But thousands of years ago, their ancestors grew wild somewhere. The plants we eat originate from around the...
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