Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde makes sculptures out of clouds. I wrote about it for New Scientist. 

I wrote my first proper post for Creatology on the Scientific American Blog Network today. It’s about an artist/sailor hybrid called Lia Ditton. 

Pic: Flickr/Lia Ditton

It turns out ‘spoken word’ is a melange of poetry, comedy and narrative. When it’s done well it’s skillful, challenging and riotously funny.

I saw a preview of Richard Tyrone Jones’ new one-man spoken word tour called “RTJ has a Big Heart” on Monday night. Jones, 31, was struck down with heart failure (dilated cardiomyopathy) a year ago. Here’s my review for the New Scientist Culturelab blog. 

Check it out: A blog post I wrote for New Scientist’s Culturelab on a Pharmacopeia-inspired dance. 

Image: Justin Jones