Neuroscience as Art [Gallery]

Grad student-turned-visual artist Greg Dunn studies neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, he creates these almost-landscape prints of neurons–extreme close-ups of the hippocampus, retinas and plant-like pyramidals. You can find (and purchase) more of Greg Dunn’s work on his website, including these along with some actual landscapes with real trees and flowers, […]


TED Talk: Our Natural Sleep Cycle [Video]

As a person with a sleep cycle that is best described as erratic (but more accurately, nonexistent), I’m fascinated by body clock studies. In this short TED Talk, Jessa Gamble talks about the influence of circadian rhythms on culture, and vice versa. In today’s world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only […]

Feature: Montreal Comic-Con 2011 in Pictures [Gallery]

As previously mentioned, I was at Comic Con Montreal 2011 last weekend to shoot pictures of costumed people, and while the event wasn’t exactly perfect (I had to wait in line for almost 2 hours to get in, even though I had purchased my ticket online a few days before,) It was still pretty darn […]

Featured Short: Danger Planet [Video]

During a routine scan on a distant planet, a young space scout finds romance with a female pilot. But when peril strikes the two star-crossed explorers, he must face what lurks in the darkness of the planet to rescue the girl. Danger Planet is an animated short created by students at Southern Adventist University in […]

DC Comics New 52: Action Comics, Detective Comics and Green Lantern Review

DC Comcis New 52 (images courtsey DC Comics)

By Meredith Placko Contributing Writer, [GAS] It’s been the talk of the comic book world for months, DC Comics relaunch of their universe. Over the month of September they will release 52 new issues that will reboot certain characters origins and introduce us to some new and exciting super humans. There’s a lot a person […]