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This gorgeous, strange image is a highly-accurate visualization of what's happening inside your body right now. Macrophages, specialized cells that help keep your body in good repair by cleaning up debris, zoom around your capillaries, among other places. In this image, we've left the macrophages behind and are inside a cell watching proteins walk around on tethers to carry proteins or other materials elsewhere in the cell. This is actually a still from an amazing flick called "Inner Life of the Cell," made for biology students, and currently on display at a new show in New York called Design and the Elastic Mind. Want to see more weird biology art?
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Macrophages Squirming Along the Outside of Your Capillaries
This gorgeous, strange image is a highly-accurate visualization of what's happening inside your body right now. Macrophages, specialized cells that help keep your body in good repair by cleaning up debris, zoom around your capillaries, among other places. In this image, we've left the macrophages behind and are inside a cell watching proteins walk around on tethers to carry proteins or other materials elsewhere in the cell. This is actually a still from an amazing flick called "Inner Life of the Cell," made for biology students, and currently on display at a new show in New York called Design and the Elastic Mind. Want to see more weird biology art?
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surveillance
You can gage how busy New York City is by looking at all the people swarming in the streets, or by smelling the giant piles of trash they've left at the curbs. But there are ways to take stock of the city's populace that are far more revealing. For a new MoMa exhibit this month, MIT's Senseable City Lab chose to expose how talkative New York is by tracking lines of electronic communication into and out of the city. Their project is aptly named the New York Talk Exchange (NYTE). It's also inadvertently a portrait of digital surveillance, showing exactly how easy it is for people to use phone records to monitor which countries New Yorkers are ringing up.
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The Art of Monitoring New York City's Telephone Conversations
You can gage how busy New York City is by looking at all the people swarming in the streets, or by smelling the giant piles of trash they've left at the curbs. But there are ways to take stock of the city's populace that are far more revealing. For a new MoMa exhibit this month, MIT's Senseable City Lab chose to expose how talkative New York is by tracking lines of electronic communication into and out of the city. Their project is aptly named the New York Talk Exchange (NYTE). It's also inadvertently a portrait of digital surveillance, showing exactly how easy it is for people to use phone records to monitor which countries New Yorkers are ringing up.
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