endangered plant and animal language

Information about local ecosystems is intricately woven into indigenous languages and cannot be replaced simply through translation.

For example, the Siberian Todzhu tribe has many different and complex names for reindeer, according to the animals' life stages. What is called a "chary" by the Todzu, would be translated in English as "a two-year-old male, un-castrated, rideable reindeer".

chirality

Chiral is used to describe an object that is non-superimposable on its mirror image.
eg: human hands

"Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink," Alice said to her cat.

(Pict: Left handed helix)

pharming

Pharming refers to the use of genetic engineering to insert genes that code for useful pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would otherwise not express those genes.

rice+breast milk

model organism

Model organisms are widely used to explore potential causes and treatments for human disease when human experimentation would be unfeasible or unethical. Arabidopsis thaliana, currently the most popular model plant.

kathe kollwitz

kathe kollwitz

Pink Not Dead

Pink is not dead and not just for women. Here's a piece of artwork by Maurycyy Gomulicki. He created this to explore the pink culture.

Read more at http://www.hemmy.net/2007/09/21/pretty-not-dead-project.

Largest Ever Art Heist

Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth $163.2 million were stolen Sunday from a museum in Zurich. The stolen paintings are:

• Claude Monet’s “Poppy field at Vetheuil”


• Edgar Degas’ “Ludovic Lepic and his Daughter”


• Vincent van Gogh’s “Blooming Chestnut Branches”


• Paul Cezanne’s “Boy in the Red Waistcoat.”

There is a $90,000 reward for information for each of the paintings.

Also, the FBI estimates that $6,000,000,000 (that's billion) worth of art work is stolen every year, so keep your studios locked ;)

Read more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23107193/#=rss

Pisa Campanille detail of stonework

scanning for Heather brings me all sorts of nice images

Victoria Morton

This is a link to Barkley Hendrick's retrospective at the Nasher!

bruce nauman

petah coyne

terry adkins

fencing.

v.

pre-fab chainlink fence kits.

Sophia Schama's life aquatic (these are paintings!)

i made a copy of this ptg...

....at least 5 years ago in a class called "old master's techniques"...I have it in my living room....I just keep going back to this image...I think it seems different to me now than it did before...something about that space between...that orb of held space....space that is bracketted