Microfluid art

Micro Fluid Art

This started out as a fun way to display a new technique I developed to pattern proteins onto substrates. This technique allows for filling extremeley long microfluidic channels with solutions in a very facile manner.

Researchers re-create pre-Columbian sounds

Researchers re-create pre-Columbian sounds

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.

If death had a sound, this was it.

Kurt Wenner’s 3D Street Art

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Map of the wind

Spectacular combination of wind rose and compass rose, with allegories of the four seasons in the corners. Some of the northern and southern winds are believed to bring diseases, as is clear from the associated windheads.

Scissor Spiders

Stainless Steel Spiders

I have obtained some of the TSA-confiscated scissors, and they inspired me. The TSA officially allows scissors with blades less than four inches. But the individual officers have the authority to disallow anything they think poses a potential threat. These scissors all belong in that grey area between what should be allowed on the plane, and what wasn’t allowed.