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• Awkward Beauty

  The Science Creative Quarterly editor on the complicated relationship between science and art.

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  Luke Jerram: Objectively Inspired

  The stunning work of an enigmatic artist. "We’re imposing our culture on scientific data whether we like it or not."

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  Catching the Wind in Rural Malawi

  With a tinkerer’s imagination and farmer’s grit, William Kamkwamba transformed junk into the beginning of one small town’s green energy revolution.

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  Hello, You’ve Won the Nobel

  The man who delivers the news to Nobel laureates on tradition, joy, and voicemail.

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  Survival of the Kindest

  In his new book, The Age of Empathy, Frans de Waal outlines an alternative to “Nature, red in tooth and claw.” Can a vision of a more empathic world change the way we behave toward each other?

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  Studying the Strangest Man

  Graham Farmelo explains why Paul Dirac may be the 20th century’s most misunderstood physicist, and speculates that Dirac may have had undiagnosed autism.

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  Portfolio: Flight Patterns

  Richard Barnes's photographs of birds’ flight patterns above a Rome suburb highlight the tension between the individual and the collective.

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  Crash Course in Relativity

  A Seed editor documents, chapter by chapter, her experience reading Why Does E=mc²?

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  The Wagnerian Method

  Physicists investigate the grand artistic vision of one of the most influential artists of the last two centuries.

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  The Rorschach Paintings

  In creating her new series, Pareidolia, artist and chemist Vesna Jovanovic detected biomorphic and medical forms in blots of ink.

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