Links to different topics

I've heard a lot of fussing about keeping track of where we can keep track of our favorite links.
I can keep editing this post and adding to it as you would like!

I'll keep adding to this over the years I hope

ART AND SCIENCE

•  X-Ray Artist (from science fridays' "video pick of the week"  -I can't list all of them, but I should!!
http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10182

•  Proteus (2004) -->  a clip of the film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_onFMjJWA

•  Panda's thumb (having a great nature photo-off)

http://pandasthumb.org/

• Performance piece about symbiotic relationships (dance)

http://www.ted.com/talks/pilobolus_perform_symbiosis.html

•  3D modeling of skeletons - pick any of your choice here on Digital Morphology

http://digimorph.org/index.phtml 

 

Source = http://digimorph.org/listthumbs.phtml?grp=bird&name=CommonName

              search any species you want:

http://digimorph.org/navcommon.phtml

• Glass art

http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/on_exhibit/the_glass_flowers.html

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/virtual-wonders/det_vrblaschka1.html

 

Image from: http://mendel-museum.com/eng/1online/gallery.htm

Art work by Susan Derges

• Masaryk University Mendel museum in Bro, Czech Republic – Gallery of Contemporary art

http://mendel-museum.com/eng/1online/gallery.htm

• The Sciences – a now defunct art & science magazine that was just incredible!

http://www.nyas.org/publications/sciences.asp

• The Green Museum

www.greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/sect1.html

•  a photographer and his methods of shooting nature with a scanner (from science friday)
http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10180

• Science News

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44922/title/Iron-ic_twist_deepens_cosmic_ray_puzzle

BIOMIMICRY – Bio Based Engineering:

• Robert Full on engineering and evolution

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.html

• Janine Benyus; “Biomimicry in Action”

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html

• Janine Benyus shares nature's designs

http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html

• Another Biomimicry speech by Golan Levin

http://www.ted.com/talks/golan_levin_ted2009.html

EARTH SCIENCE

• Erosion

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45531/title/Erosion%2C__on_the_down_low

• Biomes

http://www.worldbiomes.com/default.htm

Environmental Indicators - Animal and Plant Die-offs, Extinction etc.

• Birds dying from vitamin deficiency

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45538/title/Bird_deaths_blamed_on_vitamin_deficiency

• Ben, the last captive Thylacine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugSKHnk_XLE

• Cause for deformities – Frog Deformity Animals eating their legs off.

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/08/17/10844/studies_offer_new_insights_into_causes_of_deformed_frogs

Ethics

• Collecting and cultures

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45591/title/Book_Review_Conservation_Refugees_The_Hundred-Year_Conflict_Between_Global_Conservation_and_Native_Peoples_by_Mark_Dowie

EVOLUTION

• How will the conversation change?

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45594/title/Accept_it_Talk_about_evolution_needs_to_evolve_by_Eugenie_Scott

• Similar Body Plans

http://www.the-scientist.com/article/print/55849/

• ‘The Shape of Life” – PBS) -- home web site on: 

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/shapeoflife/index.html

• (STEPHEN JAY GOULD) – As revolutionary as Darwin.

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/

• Punctuated Equilibrium à new theory of Evolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

• For more information about periods of extinction and geological time:

http://www.fossilmall.com/Science/GeologicalTime.htm

GENETICS

• Tweaking with the genome to get new shapes

http://www.the-scientist.com/article/print/55849/

• What are genes?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOvMNOMRRm8

The Human Body:

•  My stroke of insight - Jill Bolte Taylor's discussion of what it was like to live on the Right side of her Brain for 3 years.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
•  one of my favorite science Friday episodes:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200905295
rouge disection, local artist; Lynn Fellman talks about her DNA art, the invention of the telescope and more!

• (In this video - you*don’t need to watch the total 2 minutes of the computer model rotating, but the animated part is worth while)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelgO-dqUH8

• Bones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnY6l9hMOew

• How a bone repairs itself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVougiCEgH8

•Muscle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5MyCwatq6E

• A list of historical anatomy books

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html

• Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the Interstices of Art and Medicine, Death and Culture.

http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/

• More education on anatomy and prep of specimens for medical research

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/

MUSUEMS, EXHIBITS, ZOOS

• Zookeeper

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/01/15

• Radio Lab

(Zoo Keeper’s Dilemma – can a zoo become a living museum?)

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/01

• Teaching About Zoos

http://teachingtreasures.com.au/educational-links/zoo.htm

• Rocket Park (Podcast)

http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Media/PodcastDetail.aspx?cid=9f5e2d19-db09-45fc-81be-77fc9f896f30

Process work, How to document 

• How to document process. Sculpture and a lot of cowbell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quIc2EMIg8Y

Science Journals

• Science without Borders

http://www.scientistswithoutborders.org/default.aspx

• Science News

http://www.sciencenews.org/

• The Scientist

http://www.the-scientist.com/

• New York Academy of Sciences

http://www.nyas.org/WhatWeDo/SciencetheCity.aspx

• Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/

Social behavior, Communities, etc

• Ants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A042J0IDQK4

• Bonobo monkeys – society based on sex & the ability to walk upright, it’s advantages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eubDSQrFako

Space / time Project

• Rotation of the planets explaining the beginning of the universe

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45877/title/Rotation_may_solve_cosmic_mystery

• Carl Sagan’s art filled segment from his book “the Pale Blue Dot”, the Video series “the Cosmos” etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0

Symbiotic Relationships

• Performance piece about symbiotic relationships (dance)

http://www.ted.com/talks/pilobolus_perform_symbiosis.html

•  Amazon Rainforest plant life / Symbiotic evolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xN7bPTz7gw

• Why no one will eat a sloth – symbiosis by sloth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLdzZWwxn

SYTHETIC LIFE

• why silicon valley is being surpassed by genetics

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/synthetic-life/?pagemode=print

 Visualizing Information

•  A comic book artists renderings and work about how DNA and biology works.  I wish we could by this as our text book!  we should!  Local Artist Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon work with writer Mark Schultz to create this fun and fantastic way of learning science!
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200901301

• End of the world… possibilities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ

•  seeing skeletons in 3d models (Digital Morphology)

http://digimorph.org/index.phtml