Scientific Poetry

I LOVE this blog...
The Digital Cuttlefish

Check it out... you'll know why a couple of the posts have been featured in OpenLab...
my absolute favorite is The Evolutionary Biology's Valentines Day Poem :)

The Wrong Garden in 2003

Oh Noes! Where was I? This garden totally passed me by the first time…
James Dyson created the “Wrong Garden” at the Chelsea 2003 Garden Show. This included the water-flowing-uphill water feature, inverted cone planters, non green plants and benches that do not look like they would hold weight. This is fantastic engineering!
http://www.chelsea.dyson.co.uk/
http://www.dyson.co.uk/insidedyson/#wronggarden

Great TED Talks

I've been a regular listener/viewer to TED Talks for a while now. I think as a regular Friday post, I'll post a couple of links to some talks that I think all people should watch.

Here are my two for today:

Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral
(great talk & great fusion between art & science)


Au revoir!

In my dreams....

This is an awesome video...
If anyone asks this is why I wanted to become a Botanist (see if I can GM to make these)
ENJOY!

Great Artist

I have found a great artist, Isabella Kirkland who has the most amazing paintings of animals. I love her taxa series. This series has animals and plants that are both native & threatened, or introduced and are invasive. Well done paintings, composition and very naturalistic (other than the fact that the snake would eat the kangaroo rat :) , but its "art") Her other series are phenomenal as well, the detail in the paintings is inspiring.

So take a gander at her website...
learn something about the world outdoors.
Website is at http://www.isabellakirkland.com/
Enjoy!