I feel you, Alexander. Let’s move to Australia forever.
before i worked at a student-run access and retention center, i was happy.
i’m happy now, too, i think, perhaps even more that i was before.
but its deep, deep, deep, deep, deep down. so deep that it’s been hard to find lately.
though i’m looking forward to this summer. it’ll be so good, i hope.
“why i do the work that i do” - i miss that.
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Mapping the Wonder Inside Every Cell
Behold the biochemical pathways of the cell. For decades, these wall charts have adorned the hallways and laboratories wherever biochemists are at work. They are at once both reference and art.
The version pictured above (click here for the holycraphuge version) is state of the art, a subway map of interacting pathways, intersecting reactions, and a road map for the journey to make any building block our cells need. Each node is an enzyme or product, separated by color into metabolic subdomains. You really must head over to KEGG and play with the interactive version, where each dot comes alive, an interactive chemical structure.
I’m also a big fan of Gerard Michal’s legendary wall charts of yesteryear. Watching the evolution in design from his 1974 version to a later 1993 map, his layouts are chock full of vintage German aesthetic.