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Distractions and amusements, with a sandwich and coffee.
And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.
• Wislawa Szymborska
• don't rehearse
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Trance opera—Spente le Stelle
• be dramatic
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Here we are now at the middle of the fourth large part of this talk.
• Pepe Deluxe
• get nowhere
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash
• Leonard Cohen
• burn something
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Love itself became the object of her love.
• Jonathan Safran Foer
• count sadnesses
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Twenty — minutes — maybe — more.
• Naomi
• choose four words
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Sun is on my face ...a beautiful day without you.
• Royskopp
• be apart
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listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
• e.e. cummings
• go there
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music + dance + projected visuals
• Nosaj Thing
• marvel at perfect timing
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Drive, driven. Gave, given.
• Yello
• Give me a number of games.
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I'm not real and I deny I won't heal unless I cry.
• Cocteau Twins
• let it go
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Without an after or a when.
• Papercut feat. Maiken Sundby
• can you hear the rain?
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This love loves love. It's a strange love, strange love.
• Liz Fraser
• find a way to love
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This love's a nameless dream.
• Cocteau Twins
• try to figure it out
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Lips that taste of tears, they say, are the best for kissing.
• Dorothy Parker
• get cranky
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Feel the vibe, feel the terror, feel the pain
• Hooverphonic
• Mad about you, orchestrally.
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Safe, fallen down this way, I want to be just what I am.
• Cocteau Twins
• safe at last
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Tango is a sad thought that is danced.
• Enrique Santos Discépolo
• think & dance
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syncopation & accordion
• Cafe de Flore (Doctor Rockit)
• like France, but no dog poop
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What do the trees know.
• Laleh
• sway, sway, sway
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Where am I supposed to go? Where was I supposed to know?
• Violet Indiana
• get lost in questions
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Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange.
• Holly Golightly & The Greenhornes
• break flowers
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Embrace me, surround me as the rush comes.
• Motorcycle
• drift deeper into the sound
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In your hiding, you're alone. Kept your treasures with my bones.
• Coeur de Pirate
• crawl somewhere better
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And she looks like the moon. So close and yet, so far.
• Future Islands
• aim high
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Scientific graphical abstracts — design guidelines
Scientific posters — design guidelines
The Outbreak Poems — artistic emissions in a pandemic
Nature Cancer cover of Mutation spectra
2020 `\pi` day art and the piku
The deadly genomes — run away!
Second infinity `\aleph_2` and beyond — music and mathematics
DNA on 10th — street art, wayfinding and font
The tree of emotional life — phylogenetics of emoticons
The largest map of absolutely nothing: Universe — voids and superclusters
Pixels in space — Ultra-high resolution maps of the Moon, Solary System and Sky
Nature Methods Points of View visualization column
Nature Methods Points of Significance statistics column
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ASCII Art—Tree of Emotional Life
How do you feel today?
Use this handy tree of emotional life to find yourself in the landscape of joy, sadness and everything in between.
Trees were constructed using the Levenshtein distance. The emoticon list for this project was sourced from Wikipedia. For a much larger list of emoticons (but without) annotations, see Emoticon Analysis in Twitter.
Explore my other ASCII art that uses proportional spaced fonts to create images.
▲ The tree of emotional life (41 emoticons).
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▲ The tree of emotional life (136 emoticons).
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news + thoughts
Fri 13-11-2020
Clear, concise, legible and compelling.
Making a scientific graphical abstract? Refer to my practical design guidelines and redesign examples to improve organization, design and clarity of your graphical abstracts.
▲ Graphical Abstract Design Guidelines — Clear, concise, legible and compelling.
Tue 06-10-2020
An in-depth look at my process of reacting to a bad figure — how I design a poster and tell data stories.
▲ A poster of high BMI and obesity prevalence for 185 countries.
Thu 01-10-2020
Building on the method I used to analyze the 2008, 2012 and 2016 U.S. Presidential and Vice Presidential debates, I explore word usagein the 2020 Debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
▲ Analysis of word usage by parts of speech for Trump and Biden reveals insight into each candidate.
Mon 24-08-2020
We are celebrating the publication of our 50th column!
To all our coauthors — thank you and see you in the next column!
▲ Nature Methods Points of Significance: Celebrating 50 columns of clear explanations of statistics.
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