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 A few days ago, Colin Schultz proposed to do an experiment to investigate to what degree scientific terms used in scientific news can form barriers to understanding by laypersons. Colin suggested to go through a science story and list all scientific terms that “might be a road block to an interested reader’s understanding”. Instead of following [...]  The figure below comes from Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare, a book written by the medieval armour expert Bashford Dean (1867 – 1930). The similarities between the evolution of these European war helmets and ‘proper’ biological evolution are striking. At the base we can see the ancestor of this clade of helmets: the [...] I came across a beautiful set of images created by German doctor / scientist / artist Fritz Kahn (1888 – 1968). In many of these images, he places the human body in an industrial context. The resulting combinations of technology and biology have a retro-futuristic feel to them, but are fare more than just a [...] |
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