Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
"Ji Lee's book Word as Image started 20 years ago as an assignment in his typography class at art school.
"When we were children, letters were like fun toys," he says. "We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for 'cookie.' Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z."
Researchers/Artists: Seth Darling, Muruganathan Ramanathan
In order to invent new materials to use in better batteries, solar cells and other technological advances, scientists must delve deeply into the nanoscale—the nearly atomic scale where structures determine how materials react with each other. At the nanoscale, anything can happen; materials can change colors and form into astonishing structures. Here are some of the results from studies at the nanoscale.
This is a bright-field optical micrograph of a thin film of poly(styrene-block-ferrocmyldimethylsilane) block copolymer. The structure is formed by hybrid thermal/solvent annealing of the polymer. Crystallization of the PFS block competes with self-assembly of various nanoscale morphologies in a complex balance to produce these structures.
The Watchman
A Picture from the Minneapolis Star/Tribune.
Taken on a June morning at the Minneapolis National Cemetery .
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