The children made a cake for Greek Easter αληθώς ανέστη!

“We choose to not go to the moon… because it is hard.”

The two genders

a felt mothra ornament on a green plastic Christmas tree

every year we make a commemorative felt ornament for the tree, this year’s is:

two greyhounds dressed like Mothra and Godzilla

Godzilla fighting mothra

Put that in the moodboard

32,000 years ago, an arctic squirrel ate parts of a plant, silene stenophylla, including its seed. The squirrel was digesting it when its life ended. Its body was recovered and examined. Scientists germinated this plant seed. This silene stenophylla just bloomed.
It is 32,000 years old

I see it :)

I can trade shoes with my ten year old now

A beautiful Somerville Christmas moment when five uhauls unite on the same block

Film crew set up in a microbiology lab

My hand holding a pipette

Returning to my roots

So good!

(Also torturing my Italian brother in law)

You can just do things (half pineapple half pickle pizza)

Why Is This Artist Growing Metal in a Box? | Artnet News Agnieszka Kurant's "Collective Intelligence" at Marian Goodman shows her left-brain art for right-brain people (and vice versa).

“Is there a name for art where the vibe is “poetic science project?””

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Found a friend for the Elaine #1 The Greatest mug we’ve had for 20 years

Bostonmaxxing

You should be mahjongmaxxing

What a world

a flying leafcutter bee holding a bit of leaf

little dudes with a job

We should be flowermaxxing

You can just goo things

Be the change

A KFC parking lot filled with medium sized figurines of various animals and characters like yoda goku Mario etc

We should be whimsymaxxing

I do genuinely believe the reason we don’t talk about fungi more is because if the average human thought about it all for too long, it would lead to the destruction of civilization.

Right handed this time

Hundreds of daily decisions Part 2 in a collaborative series on taste and science

I’ve been writing recently with Anna Marie Wagner on the topic of taste and tacit knowledge in science. Here’s part 2, which features how to make a peanut butter sandwich, how to measure the Q of sapphire, and how to train an AI as an artist www.oscillator.blog/p/taste-part2

As a scientist, I have always learned so much and benefited from working with art and STS, and it’s been interesting to see new intersections today in light of these big shifts in the world.