Rita Blaik is our guest this week! Los Angeles in tha house!

We kick things off with some discussion on design vs art and gender diversity in science. Then we dive into the projects!

Taylor the Chef cooked up some Supermax treats to get your mouth watering on some nutraloaf! And he gets dinged in the cheek by a bullet fragment that can't be stopped.

Rita Blaik drops the cryo-electron microscopy science on us! And she shares the wonderful curiosities of Ernst Haeckel and Robert Hooke.

Rob tries to up the fidelity and weirdness on the video he made last week. And he talks about skateboarding... again...

You can check out our projects at http://projects.opposablepodcast.com

Apologies for a few audio quality nuances. It took some psychic surgery to get around some of Rob's microphone problems.

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Special Guest: Rita Blaik.

Links:

• Rita Blaik
• Design Vs Art – The Difference And Why It Matters - Hongkiat
• Gender in science: “an initiative for change”
• Gil Scott-Heron - Nothing New
• Nutraloaf - Wikipedia
• Artist Talk about Controlled Feeding Status at Columbia College Chicago | Taylor Hokanson
• Food As Punishment: Giving U.S. Inmates 'The Loaf' Persists : The Salt : NPR
• Home | TAMMS YEAR TEN
• Ernst Haeckel - Wikipedia
• Ernst Haeckel
• Ernst Haeckel: the art of evolution – in pictures | Books | The Guardian
• the social history of the microscope - Google Search
• Micrographia - Wikipedia
• Rob Roskopp series - Marc McKee's 25 Favorite Skateboard Graphics | Complex
• Christina Agapakis
• Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy): Jeff VanderMeer: 9780374104092: Amazon.com: Books
• The Daily - Podcasts - The New York Times
• A Seamstress’s Autobiographical Text Embroidered Onto Her 19th-Century Straitjacket | Colossal
• Sun Ra quote: If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have...
• Amazon.com: Jabra Move Wireless Stereo Headset - Black: Cell Phones & Accessories
• California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA |