Sunday, April 27, 2008

Beautiful paintings of irradiated bugs


No kidding, check out these amazing watercolors by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger. Click around on the words and you will figure out how the navigation works.

You will see in the comments on Boingboing where I originally found the link that there is some heated debate as to whether these are truly deformities caused by radiation or not. There is also a scientific paper by the artist, who turns out to be a scientist as well, that supports the idea that the mutations are caused by the radiation.

Jury's out, but cool stuff nonetheless.

Enjoy art and science mixing as it did in the days of yore,

Bp

[art credit in first linked web page]

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