• Singled Out: Miracle Parade’s The Dying Physicist. “What physicists pulled from these observations is that every particle starts out as a wave of ‘potential’ – meaning that you could only make a prediction on where it is going to end up. Its path on where it will land is all chance, circumstance, and probability. However, one can collapse the wave function – collapse the ‘wave of potential’, turning this wave into a point particle, with a definite space, location, and trajectory. I found these insights into light pretty wild and in a peculiar way, sort of analogous to the human experience.”
• Paying Homage to Darwin in an Unconventional Format: Rap. “When it comes to mixing the personal and the cosmic, it’s hard to beat the combination of evolution and hip-hop. As an illustration of the Darwinian principle of biomimicry, Mr. Brinkman compared the menacing persona of gangsta rappers to the bright colors adopted by a nonpoisonous snake to appear poisonous and thus scare off predators in a hostile environment.”
• The Science of Song, The Song of Science. “In a frizzed-out wig and a sparkly garment that was a robe on one side and a mini-dress on the other, Bjork was performing her new collection of science-minded songs, ‘Biophilia,’ from an album to be released in September.”
• More art & science – hand painted poster at Synthetic Biology #synbio5 – by Karmella Haynes. “Though I was fascinated by the art side of this, then we got to talking about the science because actually – the figures there were about work she had done on applying some ideas from synthetic biology to animal cells in tissue culture. “