SEEING WITH BIONIC EYES

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: 
Fine I, & Boynton GM (2015). Pulse trains to percepts: the challenge of creating a perceptually intelligible world with sight recovery technologies. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 370 (1677) PMID: 26240423

HUMIDITY POWERED ENERGY

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: 
Xi Chen, Davis Goodnight, Zhenghan Gao, Ahmet H. Cavusoglu, Nina Sabharwal, Michael DeLay, Adam Driks & Ozgur Sahin. (2015). Scaling up nanoscale water-driven energy conversion into evaporation-driven engines and generators. Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8346

ARCS CONFERENCE POSTER

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

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Extremely excited to attend the ARCS Conference 2015 on behalf of Draw Science. A huge thanks to ARCS for their gracious scholarship covering all travel, lodging, and food expenses!

HUMAN EVOLUTION

Yisela Alvarez Trentini Founder, Designer Geek Gift

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article:
W. Howard Levie, & Richard Lentz (1982). Effects of text illustrations: A review of research Educational Technology Research & Development, 30 (4), 195-232 : 10.1007/BF02765184

PICTURES, NOT PARAGRAPHS.

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article:
W. Howard Levie, & Richard Lentz (1982). Effects of text illustrations: A review of research Educational Technology Research & Development, 30 (4), 195-232 : 10.1007/BF02765184

PUT THE ART IN ARTICLE

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Science communication is broken. Let's fix it.
I've already ranted about the problems with science communication. Even when a layperson gets access to a paper despite all the pay-per-view journals, the use of esoteric jargon makes it practically impossible for the public to read fresh-from-the-lab-bench science. For the last few months, I've been working on a solution through Draw Science. Now it's time to take off the band-aid and treat the wound.

I want to make an open access infographic journal.
We're talking the whole sha-bang: trademarks, corporation filings, DOI's, CLOCKSS archival, etc. By the end of this, Draw Science will have the same legal legitimacy of PLOS or any other online scholarly journal. The barrier is that this costs a little bit of cash; cash that a college student like myself doesn't have.

PS. Sorry for disappearing for a while. I was busy trying to make this happen!

HOW TO UNBOIL AN EGG

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: 
Yuan, T., Ormonde, C., Kudlacek, S., Kunche, S., Smith, J., Brown, W., Pugliese, K., Olsen, T., Iftikhar, M., Raston, C., & Weiss, G. (2015). Shear-Stress-Mediated Refolding of Proteins from Aggregates and Inclusion Bodies ChemBioChem DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201402427

SPACE EXPLORATION 2.0

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: 
Genta, G. (2014). Private space exploration: A new way for starting a spacefaring society? Acta Astronautica, 104 (2), 480-486 DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2014.04.008

AMNH PRESENTS: SHELF LIFE

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

The American Museum of Natural History recently created Shelf Life, an original series about the history and importance of scientific collections. They asked me to share the series with other science enthusiasts via social media, but after watching the video for the first episode, "33 Million Things," I couldn't resist talking a little more about what Shelf Life is. Read the infographic below to get a short preview of what you can see and learn from Shelf Life.

GRAPHENE IS THE NEW KEVLAR

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: 
Lee, J., Loya, P., Lou, J., & Thomas, E. (2014). Dynamic mechanical behavior of multilayer graphene via supersonic projectile penetration Science, 346 (6213), 1092-1096 DOI: 10.1126/science.1258544 [Full Text (HTML)]

NOT-SO-GREEN MEN

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: Lin, H., Abad, G., & Loeb, A. (2014). Detecting industrial pollution in the atmospheres of earth-like exoplanets The Astrophysical Journal, 792 (1) DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/792/1/L7 [Full Text (PDF)]