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By: Making science fun « Watchful eyes, thoughtful mind

Making science fun « Watchful eyes, thoughtful mind — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:40:08 +0000

[...] it is bound to make science fun for you! And just as I finished writing this post, I came across this blog post by BadAstronomer Phil Plait about an artist who incorporates science in her paintings for [...]

By: Tiffany Ard

Tiffany Ard — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:53:09 +0000

Re: Hydrogen! You are right, it is a typo! Fixed on the next reprint. I also made the covalent bonds image clearer.

And Re the other stuff: It’s true that my drawing style is rather hit-and-run these days. My work was much more detailed and realistic before I had kids but now I’m lucky if I get 10 minutes to paint a day. But! In this case, the little girl is standing in the shallow water on the beach — it’s easier to see in the print, but that’s her foot sticking out of the water on the left. If you can’t tell that, yeah… the legs look freakishly long.

And the moon only *appears* to be huge because it’s close to the horizon.

By: dadio

dadio — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:16:06 +0000

These are wonderful

By: Ilyn

Ilyn — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:40:54 +0000

Good art is the art that makes you feel an emotion. Whether it be love or hate, if it’s good art you should feel something. If you’re indifferent to the piece then ,to you, it is not good art. Of course any piece of art work will cause different reactions to different people. This is the subjectivity of art.

By: Radiance

Radiance — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:47:56 +0000

Just added a link to my post about this post of yours . Check out, http://watchful-eyes-thoughtful-mind.blogspot.com/2009/04/making-science-fun.html

By: Radiance

Radiance — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:43:47 +0000

That’s a pretty cool way of teaching children science! I just worte a blog post on mine about making science fun through interesting experiments .

By: Mike Torr

Mike Torr — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:39:53 +0000

@rob: How do you know it isn’t half a degree wide? It could be a very long telephoto lens.

By: nyrath

nyrath — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:19:44 +0000

There was an amusing 1951 science fiction story called “Nice Girl With Five Husbands” by Fritz Leiber. A man is transported into the future. The punch line is that he doesn’t realize that the seemingly nonsensical rhyme the little girl is skipping rope to is actually a mnemonic for Einstein’s relativity theory.

The idea is that you can’t start too early teaching science to young children.

By: rob

rob — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:42:57 +0000

hmmm…nitpick! isn’t the moon in the picture above rather large? shouldn’t it only be 1/2 a degree wide?

By: killyosaur

killyosaur — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:34:31 +0000

Actually the mistake would be calling Hydrogen a “molecule.” It is an atom and yes it can have 1, 2, etc. or no electrons, depending on a whole host of factors relating to the nature of the hydrogen.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:12:32 +0000

Magnus, you are correct a hydrogen MOLECULE has two electrons a hydrogen ATOM has one!

By: PlantPerson

PlantPerson — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:49:40 +0000

It’s a nice idea, but the artwork leaves something to be desired. (For example, that kid’s legs appear to be something on the order of four or five feet long.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:02:46 +0000

I think I found a mistake. In Nerdy Baby 1 2 3s the picture says “one electron in a hydrogen molecule,” but a hydrogen molecule has two electrons. The picture is of a single hydrogen atom with its one electron.

By: Julienne

Julienne — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:34:32 +0000

I am SO in love with these – the art reminds me of Charles Vess and his work on Neil Gaiman’s Blueberry Girl. I can’t wait to put these on my future child’s walls.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:07:14 +0000

The real question is why is it C’eci and not Ceci in C’eci n’est pas une brontosaurus?

By: Siphoneuphoria

Siphoneuphoria — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:40:36 +0000

Oh also, Mr. Sardines, I think that says ,”This is not a turtle.” Which i guess means either:
This is not a turtle, it is a picture of a turtle.
or
This is not a turtle, it’s a tortoise.

By: Siphoneuphoria

Siphoneuphoria — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:35:21 +0000

Adorable!
But again, I have to ask. Why does it have to be one or this other–this rather than fairies? Why not both?

By: Grisha

Grisha — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:37:05 +0000

Holy Smoke! Ceci n’est pas une pipe either.

Keeping the obscure references going…

By: Flying sardines

Flying sardines — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:11:00 +0000

@ hheb09’1 :

At least, they didn’t go with C’eci n’est pas une brontosaurus.

As a non-french speaker who only recognises the word brontosaurus inall that can I just say : What?

Pardon? Je ne non-comprehendez! (Scratches head.)

(That’s meant to mean “I don’t understand …” but I don’t understand whether it does or not or even whether its french or spanish so .. )

By: Flying sardines

Flying sardines — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:07:20 +0000

Your new tattoo design found?

By: tarrkid

tarrkid — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:20 +0000

WANT

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:37:33 +0000

Holy smoke! These are adorable!

By: hheb09'1

hheb09'1 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:21:30 +0000

At least, they didn’t go with C’eci n’est pas une brontosaurus

By: hheb09'1

hheb09'1 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:19:44 +0000

And under Well, Technically…, “Cretaceous” is spelled “Cretacious” although it is correct on the actual artwork.

By: LarianLeQuella

LarianLeQuella — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:10:01 +0000

I need to send this to my daughter! She’ll love it!