The Haversian Canal

[link text](http://linkurl/)

Apparently you can get fresh fish on Saturday mornings, straight off the boat, at the Westwego Shrimp Lot. I'll try to get down there.

One or more. The United Nations is shooting for a billion.

Science magazine recently published the winners of its 2006 Visualization Challenge. Here's my review:

Richard Palais's application of an artisan's craft to pure math is deeply satisfying and his online gallery has many more visualizations.

Nils Sparwasser, who led the Hawaii mountain team, has an online gallery and a new book, Mountains from Space, which Amazon has on discount. One must wonder if he has Imhof's books.

The credit for the radiology images really should have gone to the open source community that has done such an incredible job with the DICOM radiology standard: OsiriX, Dicomworks, etc. I would have to see technical details for the images, but my sense is these particular imagers got their awards more because of their access to particular subjects than any profound ability to design with imaging software, although they may be quite remarkable people in their own rights. By comparison, will Science magazine start giving visualization awards for Photoshopping scientific images?

The Flavio Fenton's cardiac biolectricity tutorials are hardcore modeling and it opened my eyes to what a torsade de pointes arrhythmia really is.

Caryn Babaian's anatomy chalkboard drawing is wonderful, but I would recommend against medical students focusing on artistic accuracy in their drawings. Anatomy classes seem to have a rich, intense first day experience as part of their culture. The students, however, should first worry about spatial organization, nodal analysis, mechanics, embryologic development, and rapid recognition of structures. Drawing a humerus to scale is not the best use of time. It's better than nothing, but make sure you have the logical schema down first.

I particularly like David Yager's green bug because I described the same technique (and surely many others did before I) in the first post I made on this forum.

I can't think of anyone involved in air control who would need Aaron's airspace maps, though I can see why some might want them for their mesmerizing patterns.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has a strong history of supporting informative structural and cellular biology animations, but I have learned more from Xvivo.

I haven't gone through the ornithology site yet, but here's a direct link to their 'browser'.

Here's the Mona Lisa project's flash page.

The only thing I can find on Curtis Dubois is that he may have designed this CD cover.

Didn't find a page for the material informatics group.

Overall, the competition seems to have been more about confections that reasoning about in the real, work-a-day world, and the awards to the radiologists over the programmers illustrates that.

It's the book I'm currently reading. By John Gatto, a 'reformed' teacher who left the school system after 30 years to pursue a second career as a sabatour of the system he participated in. He is most famous for his essay The Seven-Lesson School Teacher.