A scientist and an artist team up to explain how industrial chemicals influence humans and other organisms at the cellular level.
There are many persistent industrial chemicals that accumulate in marine life and in our bodies. For many years we have had problems predicting which industrial chemicals will be persistent in the environment. Artist Perrin Ireland worked with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Biology Amro Hamdoun to explain how current research in cell biology might be used to to prevent this problem from happening in the future. Watch Perrin’s beautiful watercolor art unfold here.
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As a Biology teacher, I find your work incredible useful. My students now have a better understanding on the subject of “The tour of the cell”, and all of this has been accomplished in a fun educational way. Please, keep providing us with more examples of your work.THANK YOU!
Very coolie-o
I loved this so much I’ve sent it to all my friends, AND posted it on MY website (www.asharpeye.com) as a ‘Must Peek’ for all our readers to get educated and have fun at the same time! Great sense of humor in the graphics.
Save the cell! No to bad chemicals!
I love this video which puts it to the point!
Elegant, engaging, artful solution to a complex communications challenge. Very cool.
I love it!
and…hey, I wanna party in that cell! Dr. Hamdoun- can I get on the guest list? pleeeease? I promise I won’t bring any unsavory characters along and we’ll party responsibly!
Great video and beautiful painting. I sent this link to my Green Chemistry prof!
This was absolutely brilliant in every way. I had a smile on my face the whole time I was listening and watching. As a speech coach, I love the vcreative, simple, memorable approach!
Great work making a complex phenomenon understandable to us all!
Ever since I saw Dr. Hamdoun present his research at PopTech 2010, I wanted to see it come to life via animation. It has been a blast to watch Perrin and Amro put this together!
Wat to go.