Visions, visualizations, and envisioning the future.
Issue 2
Visions
The scientific process makes the invisible visible. How did science change as scientists built new tools for seeing? How do scientists consider the future—in their assumptions, forecasts, and hallucinations? Whose visions guide these predictions, and whose don’t? How do they decide what to look for?
Seeing is Believing: Constructing the Higgs Boson
The Higgs boson isn’t really a ‘thing’ in the way that a non-particle physicist might understand the term. How do physicists ‘see’ it, and how do they negotiate its public image?
Atom by Atom: Building Protein Models
How we learned to see the folds, twists, and curls of proteins.
The Pope’s Planetologists
Doing science at the Vatican Observatory.
The Social Life of Climate Science
Scientists depend on relations of trust to produce knowledge about climate change from tree rings.
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Snowclones and the history of the next big thing.
The Femunculus [NSFW]
Male bodies are seen as the default in biology. One artist is working towards helping us see the alternatives.
Protocol: Visualizing Gene Expression
Seeing mRNA inside a fruit fly embryo.
Visions of The Lone Scientific Genius
What the phenomenon of simultaneous discovery can tell us about how we mythologize
our lone scientific visionaries in hindsight.
Conversations with Natalie Jeremijenko
Turning data spectatorship into data full-contact sports.
The Daily Life of Amoeba Proteus
Seeing amoeba and seeing ourselves.
Seeing the Future of African Science
The ingredients — tangible and far less so — needed to build a world-class research
institution in South Africa from scratch.
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