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Oh So Geeky: Animated Cell Biology

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The meeting of two types of geek creates a website dedicated to cell biology. In Motion! "Animation in education is known as the invisible helper." Where the hell was this when I was studying Molecular & Cell Biology? Click around on the site to see the molecular animations in action. The colors could use a little design love but it's really neat to see the Kreb's cycle, glycolysis and DNA translation in motion as they would be in life.

169 Best Illusions : Scientific American

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"Brightness and color can have powerful effects on perception. In this illusion created by vision scientist Edward H. Adelson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, squares A and B are the same shade of gray. (If you don’t believe it, print out this page, cut out the two squares and place them side by side.) Our brain does not perceive the true brightness and color of each square but instead determines the brightness and color of A and B by comparison with the squares surrounding them."

Science Made Easy | Flavorwire

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"New Haven-based artist Kevin Van Aelst, photographs household objects to explain basic life processes. According to his artist’s statement, “The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life — the banalities of our daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existence… This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas.”