Showing posts with label biodiversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biodiversity. Show all posts

January 2, 2011

Sara Krugman at Flux Factory

Exhibition Jan. 14 - 21.

(Left, Pump Skin series, #1. Pig and human skin, Animas Ping insulin pump (2010).)

November 2, 2009

Bloodwork

Last time I checked online for blood cell animations, pickings were slim. Now one need look no further than YouTube. I rec. you get as many onscreen as possible (these are formatted so that, if you have the option of making this window big enough, you can get a nice, tight 3 x 3 array of embeds), play them all simultaneously, here or otherwise, then click replay as needed to keep them all going for a bit (audio desirable). (Happy Halloween.)

UPDATE: I made a vidi of my own results here.


June 21, 2009

Tan the Man. But . . .

he looks more pink than tan – I hope his lifetime exposure otherwise is low.

When I was a teen, people didn't understand the dangers of over-exposure; by the time I was 30, enough was known that I started wearing a hat while swimming. So I'd like to imagine there's something here about time, progress, generations, etc., as well as burning and exposure, in addition to the seemingly whimsical shapes.

More here.

May 17, 2008

Biodiversity Has Plummeted by Nearly One Third Since 1970

Per the U.K.'s The Independent, "[t]he world's species are declining at a rate 'unprecedented since the extinction of the dinosaurs,' a census of the animal kingdom has revealed. The Living Planet Index out today shows the devastating impact of humanity as biodiversity has plummeted by almost a third in the 35 years to 2005. . . .

"Jonathan Loh, editor of the report [produced by WWF, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Global Footprint Network], said that such a sharp fall was 'completely unprecedented in terms of human history.' 'You'd have to go back to the extinction of the dinosaurs to see a decline as rapid as this,' he added. 'In terms of human lifespan we may be seeing things change relatively slowly, but in terms of the world's history this is very rapid.'

"And 'rapid' is putting it mildly. Scientists say the current extinction rate is now up to 10,000 times faster than what has historically been recorded as normal." More at the link above.