I guess it's my fault for not reading BoingBoing every day, but they're pretty consistently cool. Follow this link to a photograph of the recent solar eclipse over Turkey, where the conical shape of the umbral shadow is clearly visible at the lower right (the astronaut photographer was apparently flying head down at the moment).
Boing Boing: Total eclipse as seen by astronauts on the ISS
The First Annual Art of Science Competition at Princeton University has opened an online exhibition of the top entries of works that celebrate "the aesthetics of research and the ways in which science
and art inform each other." Entries come from chemistry, biology, engineering, computer science and many other branches of the sciences.
Never mind about science and art informing each other. I am fascinated that mundane, microscopic, or mathematical images can evoke an aesthetic response in us. They may not be art (as the creative and expressive work of an artist), but we still respond as if they were.
Click on the image to open the online gallery.
