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This is a collection of things I like to look at and think about when I'm not thinking about Biophysics. Now that you know me, you should follow me, or you could get to know me, Ask me . Looking for something?

roundthelab:

get ready to be amazed ;)
“the biochemical pathways of the cell” …
jtotheizzoe:

Mapping the Wonder Inside Every Cell
Behold the biochemical pathways of the cell. For decades, these wall charts have adorned the hallways and laboratories wherever biochemists are at work. They are at once both reference and art.
The version pictured above (click here for the holycraphuge version) is state of the art, a subway map of interacting pathways, intersecting reactions, and a road map for the journey to make any building block our cells need. Each node is an enzyme or product, separated by color into metabolic subdomains. You really must head over to KEGG and play with the interactive version, where each dot comes alive, an interactive chemical structure.
I’m also a big fan of Gerard Michal’s legendary wall charts of yesteryear. Watching the evolution in design from his 1974 version to a later 1993 map, his layouts are chock full of vintage German aesthetic.

6 years ago, I knew 3% of this.

Science as it was in ‘74 (Taken with instagram)

scipsy:

An Earth Scientist’s Periodic Table of the Elements and their Ions.
Lifethroughgeologictime asked for it, and here it is, a Periodic table for geology. It’s a bit of a mess, isn’t it? So, if anyone would like something simpler, take a look at this very simplified version.

Magnifying cells on your cupboard door, just because

Oh dear.

Magnesium Chloride + Ammonium Acetate + Sparkly nail varnish = not pretty

texturism:

transcience shows the beauty of the natural oxidizing process of mirrors.
by accelerating and manipulating this process, the transcience mirrors show various stages of oxidation in three different geometrical patterns.
normally, the oxidation process in a mirror occurs randomly and evolves slowly over time. this process can be regarded as degradation, however this project shows the beauty of this material transition of silver. these mirrors reveal the different states of this process. in this case, sulphur is used to create an accelerated oxidation process. depending on the time that the silver is reacting with sulphur, different colour tones can be achieved, ranging from gold to brown, to purple to blue. - by lex pott | via davidderksen: bloesem

thedailyfeed:

The first woman to receive a U.S. patent helped to transform the hatmaking industry.

Mary Dixon Kies, a native of Killingly, Conn., invented a new way of weaving straw with silk or thread for hatmaking. Her timing in applying for and receiving her patent was excellent: Hoping to maintain neutrality with Britain and France as Napoleon charged through Europe, the United States had placed an embargo on the importation of European goods. New England’s economy was suffering, but American women still needed their French- and British-style accessories. (The embargo failed, and war broke out in 1812.)
Beyond that, historians don’t know much about Kies’ life. As Autumn Stanley noted in her 1995 book “Mothers of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology,” even the accounts about the substance of Kies’ patent are confused: Some call it a “process,” others a “machine” and still others a “device.” Whatever it was, first lady Dolley Madison wrote Kies a note commending her on her accomplishment.

From “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” by M. Kundera

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