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Post 15: Ernst Haeckel

Post 15: Ernst Haeckel

by | Mar 15, 2020 | Independent Study

When I got home from MBL, I ordered several books by Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature and Art Forms from the Ocean. His work helped me see more beauty in marine forms, and the level of detail in his drawings is truly spectacular. It is interesting to consider his...
Post 14: MBL Trip

Post 14: MBL Trip

by | Mar 12, 2020 | Independent Study

Over intensives, the marine biology group took a week long trip to Woods Hole, MA to visit the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL). This trip really solidified my interest in biology and gave me a taste of what studying biology in college and beyond might look like. I was...

Post 13: Abstraction in Art and Nature book

by | Mar 11, 2020 | Independent Study

This book has been lying around my house for about a decade. We acquired it when Lainey was taking art and drawing classes. I was surprised to realize that this familiar book actually addresses many of my topic areas, albeit from a more artistic than scientific point...

Post 12: What are Turing Structures?

by | Mar 2, 2020 | Independent Study

The mathematician Alan Turing is famous for his work on artificial intelligence and cracking the German codes during WWII, (as shown in one of my favorite films, The Imitation Game), but he also worked on the issue of why nature has certain patterns. Turing speculated...