Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Arts and Sciences


UW News ran a story on a UW bioengineer's lab images that "could be mistaken for modern art." Actually, the most interesting image, Van Gohh's Cells, above, looks much more like the work of contemporary aboriginal artist Gloria Petyarre -- SAM has a piece very similar to the one below on display.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Creepy science.


Occasionally I feel compelled to read some engineering-related article, and find it vaguely interesting, thanks to my current position of faux-expertise. Bunnies wearing contacts that provide "super-human vision" (super-bunny vision?), however, goes beyond interesting into slightly disturbing.

I don't debate the benefits of circuit- and diode-laced lenses. Innumerable people could benefit from enhanced vision. My reasons for freaking out are twofold: one, bunnies with robot eyes look frightening; and two, it's difficult enough to navigate campus among a student body plugged into iPods -- imagine if they were "surf[ing] the Internet on a midair virtual display screen that only they would be able to see." Yike.