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Tag: cover

Concocting pulp covers: The journal Inadvisable Science

September 28, 2014 Marc Abrahams

Behold this image — the cover of an imaginary science magazine called Inadvisable Science. It’s concocted using a web site called the Pulp-O-Mizer, that lets you concoct such things. (Thanks to investigator Robin Abrahams for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: The Department of Inadvisable Science

Arts and Scienceconcoct, cover, create, Magazine (AIR)

The Cake of the Book of Improbable, Devoured

September 9, 2012 Marc Abrahams

Special thanks to Gus Rancatore and his fellow wizards at Toscanini’s Ice Cream for creating (and surprising me with) an Improbably-beautiful, and delicious, one-of-a-kind ice cream cake that recreated the cover of my new book, This Is Improbable. Here’s a photo of that cake (which no longer exists, having been devoured), and a look at […]

Arts and Sciencebook, cake, cover, Ice Cream

Wrong-handed in Nature, he says

September 24, 2010 Marc Abrahams

A letter in the Sept 22, 2010 issue of Nature magazine begins: DNA dealt wrong hand on cover Michael Eisen Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, Berkeley It could not escape my notice that your cover of 9 September (Nature 467, issue 7312; 2010) is dominated by a DNA molecule with a pronounced left-handed […]

Arts and Sciencecover, DNA, handedness, left, Nature, right
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