Tag: maryam zaringhalam

Smell Check

Smell Check

By Maryam Zaringhalam, @thisisartlab Taken from The Daily Doodle. My name is Maryam and i’m a congenital anosmic. I was born this way—a rare mutant with a lifelong inability to smell Anosmia literally means ‘without smell. While I most certainly do have a nose (my grandmother […]

Riddles in the Dark

Riddles in the Dark

By Maryam Zaringhalam, @thisisartlab ”We know more about space than we do our oceans, even though the oceans sustain all life on our planet.” – Sylvia Earle To the obligate land-dweller, life underwater is just about as foreign as life on other planets. Hidden from our land-centric […]

Fractaled Atlas

Fractaled Atlas

By Maryam Zaringhalam, @thisisartlab No matter where we look in the natural world, we are sure to find recurring patterns. As a result, natural scientists devote their careers to [humbly] attempt to find and define these very patterns. The most abundant of these natural motifs […]

Evolution by Aesthetic Design

Evolution by Aesthetic Design

By Maryam Zaringhalam, @thisisartlab Biological evolution is the change in gene frequencies in populations over successive generations through forces like mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift. But at its most basic conceptual level, evolution is simply change over time. Since life is not stagnant, but perpetually […]

Welcome to ArtLab

Welcome to ArtLab

By Maryam Zaringhalam Oversimplification is the kryptonite of any scientific idea, oftentimes turning pop science into an elaborate game of telephone, carelessly paring away all the nuances and caveats that make the idea so impactful in the first place. The lateralization of the brain, first […]