by Arius Elvikis
The Farm
by Alexis Rockman
(2000)
Incredible advances are being made in genetics and biotechnology. Crops are altered to be easier for farmers to grow; bacteria are altered to produce specific substances or break down others; and animals are beginning to be custom-tailored to yield more meat or aid in disease research. These are fascinating fields and they certainly spark the imagination when the potential is considered. But they might not be without their dangers. Read the rest of this entry »
by Arius Elvikis
Chris Jordan
Intolerable Beauty
“Cell phones #2”
Plasticatastrophe
Half a year ago I read an article on the North Pacific Gyre, an immense, high-pressure area of the ocean between the west coast and Hawaii. The waters within were doldrums; few ships sailed through because the winds didn’t blow. The ocean just swirled there slowly. Read the rest of this entry »
by Trevor Helminski
Collaborator: Clifton Smith
Galileo Galilei
by Ottavio Leoni
(1624)
Life of Galileo by German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) is a major attempt to dramatize both the life of a great scientist and a crucial episode in the biography of science.
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by Chris Livesay
Mass (Colder Darker Matter)
Cornelia Parker
(1997)
The word “mass” elicits a host of images. A mass of people just ran into the breezeway to escape the monsoon showers outside the building I type in. Scores of people across the world are certain to be celebrating the Mass at this moment, in churches both tiny and massive in size. Most fundamentally, there is mass in its scientific context, i.e. mass as the sum total of matter present in an object. In all of these senses, Cornelia Parker’s Mass (Colder Darker Matter) acts as a perceptual and conceptual metaphor.
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