Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Throes of Creation


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Image of the Week #96, June 17th, 2013:

From: 3 Essential Qualities Up-and-coming Science Writers Should Develop by Khalil A. Cassimally at The SA Incubator.

Source: Leonid Pasternak, archived at Wikimedia Commons.

At first, we thought this was an artist?s depiction of Scientific American bloggers sitting down to pen the latest in cutting-edge science commentary. We imagine we look like this, after all. But the painting is instead Leonid Pasternak?s late 19th century ?Throes of Creation.? Pasternak was a post-impressionist Russian painter known for illustrating Tolstoy?s novels.

Bora Zivkovic About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.

The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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