Katrina Wong and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editors Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world – Leonardo da Vinci. Our multimedia category deals with diverse and unexpected approaches to communicating science. As the love child of science and art, “SciArt” can have an even broader […]
This past week (March 1st to 7th) marked the third annual #SciArt Tweet Storm. Begun in 2015 by the folks at Symbiartic, the SciArt Tweet Storm is part celebration, part marketing campaign, part science communication, and all beautiful. As in previous years, the rules were simple – Each day, participants Tweet 3 pieces of […]
Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editor “I started this,” says chemist Steve Maguire in the introductory video of his YouTube channel, Science Is Not Scary, “because I was sick and tired of dreck masquerading as quality programming.” Now I am not as worked up as Maguire, but as Science Communications Consultant Lisa Willemse emailed, “making and […]
‘Tis the season for gift-giving, and what better way to make your science-obsessed loved ones happy than with unique, Canadian-made geekery? This is the first annual Science Borealis gift guide for science art to feed your soul. For the chemist, a planter with a twist gives succulents a scientific home. The brainchild of Alexander […]
Liz Martin-Silverstone and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia editors Science-art, or sciart, is used to illustrate scientific ideas and concepts. In most cases, the idea behind sciart is straightforward – draw or illustrate what you see. Of course it’s not really that simple because a great deal of research goes into these images – more than […]
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