The Eyes Have It

One of the best organized font sites I’ve ever used. Fast. Access to a ton of font publishers. Categories that make sense.

Associated with the Identifont site “that enables you to identify a font from a sample by answering a series of simple questions. It is ideal if you want to match an existing typeface, or identify a typeface you have seen in a publication. … includes information about fonts from most of the major type libraries.” This has been very useful when we couldn’t find the digital files of a legacy job that needed to be redone.

“I seek a method by which teachers teach less and learners learn more.”
Johann Comenicus, writer of the first illustrated textbook (1630)

Thanks to Family Medicine Notes.

Give your Visual Presentations Punch: Helpful Hints for Effective Visuals is a well-written 24 page primer on developing slides and scientific posters from the Southern Alberta Nursing & Health Research Resource Unit. Some of the information is specific to that organization, and I don’t necessarily agree with everything they suggest, but there are a lot of great tips, tools and techniques for anyone that has to create this type of visual aid.

“Pharmacopoeia is a visual art project illustrating medical issues.”

It’s also an extremely political site exploring the places where modern medicine intersects with technology, society and culture. Themes examined include alternatives, depression, fertility, identification, resistance, smoking, value and waste.

Two new entries to the Blogroll. Both seem well worth repeated visits.

Lagniappe (science, business, and culture) “A medicinal chemist talks (and talks, and talks. . .)” Great writing from the labs. Recently completed an in-depth series about nerve agents. Interesting insights into pharmaceutical patent expirations.

Tales of Hoffman “Another attempt at relevance.” by Steve Hoffman, VP, Product Management for Medscape.com. Officially launched today, Steve’s interests “revolve around using Internet Technology to communicate (hence, this experiment with Weblogs!), as well as how these technologies are changing both the business and practice of Medicine.” Sounds like the focus of his blog may occasionally intersect with the focus of this one.

A little off topic, but this article from PopCult is just too good to let go by. Nice head-to-head comparisons of contemporary magazine covers with those from the Golden Age of periodical publishing.

Take a look at your local newsstand and here’s what you’ll see: racks upon racks of magazines that look almost identical. Whether they focus on music, fashion, cigars, fitness, women, or men, most magazines typically feature a grinning celebrity on the cover peeking out from behind squadrons of coverlines. It wasn’t always like this.

“While the Garret has a charming old world atmosphere of oak beams and bundles of herbs, the Theatre itself is a shocking reminder of the harsh reality of life before modern science and technology. Many places claim to ‘bring the past to life’. But this is not Disney cuteness or Heritage complacency. This is the past stripped bare. See for yourself.”

Points of interest (??): “used in the days before anaesthetics and antiseptic surgery” and “a fascinating collection of objects revealing the horrors of medicine before the age of science - including instruments for cupping, bleeding, trepanning, and child-birth.”

A new exhibit opening October 9th at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland:

“Who we are beneath the skin amazes and scares us, entertains, repels, fascinates, inspires. Since 1500 A.D., when illustrations of human anatomy first began appearing in print, artists have employed fantastic settings, bizarre juxtapositions, antic poses, intense colors, and fanciful metaphors, to display scientific knowledge of the body and its interior–a dream anatomy that reveals as much about the outer world as it does the inner self. Drawn largely from the Library’s collections, Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most spectacular moments, from 1500 to the present.“

According to my referers page, The Eyes Have It tops the list when performing the following searches:

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Small, very interesting e-book by Seth Godin outlining his thoughts on bad PowerPoint and how to avoid it. Might be a nice piece to share with your clients. His blog is also worth a read.

The Chemist’s Art Gallery contains “spectacular visualization and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization and Animation Laboratory at CSC by the Visualization Group and from groups at other locations.”

Palimpsest n. 1. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible. 2. An object, place, or area that reflects its history.