Science communication
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In recent years, as high-end digital animation tools have been used to create impossible worlds in popular cinema, these same tools have been used to visualise the scientific and medical worlds with previously unimagined accuracy. Using scientific data to inform the properties of digital visualisations, animators have been able to illustrate and illuminate the landscapes concealed beneath the surface of the natural world. Drew Berry, one of the world's foremost animators working in biomedical visualisation, has concentrated much of his work on cellular visualisation - animating the behaviour, dynamics and physical properties of DNA, bio-molecules and proteins.
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Human #1: "Hello, nice weather today, isn’t it?" Human #2: "Ummm…actually not. It’s a gray, cold, windy, rainy kind of day!" Many a joke depends on confusion about the meaning of language, as in the example above. But understanding the sources of such confusion is important in realms other than stand-up comedy, including in the attempts to convey facts about the world to one’s target audience.
Observations: The line between science and journalism is getting blurry....again
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The unique landscape surrounding UNSW's Fowlers Gap Arid Zone Research Station near Broken Hill has drawn researchers from around the world for over 40 years, spawning over 300 PhDs and over 1,000 scientific papers.
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Did you know ... Bacteria were the first living organisms on Earth.
Ultimo Science Festival "Its time for us all to explore our untouched scientific passions. The Ultimo Science Festival is an opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the latest scientific discoveries, whilst supporting our local science community." - Clover Moore, Lord Mayor, City of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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By Jon Lomberg A random sampling of several hundred among the thousands of messages submitted to Hello to Earth tells us this: If Earthlings believe anything about aliens, it’s that they will like beer.
10daysofscience» Interstellar beer appreciation
The art of data visualization
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