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    The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
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    The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science

    By Matt Lamothe, Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski and David Macaulay

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    A science book like no other, The Where, the Why, and the How turns loose 75 of today's hottest artists onto life's vast questions, from how we got here to where we are going. Inside these pages some of the biggest (and smallest) mysteries of the natural world are explained in essays by real working scientists, which are then illustrated by artists given free rein to be as literal or as imaginative as they like. The result is a celebration of the wonder that inspires every new discovery. Featuring work by such contemporary luminaries as Lisa Congdon, Jen Corace, Neil Farber, Susie Ghahremani, Jeremyville, and many more, this is a work of scientific and artistic exploration to pique the interest of both the intellectually and imaginatively curious.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateSep 14, 2012
    ISBN9781452119113
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    The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
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    Matt Lamothe

    Matt was born in Maine, USA. Jenny was born in Moscow, Russia. His family moved to Alabama when he was in middle school and to Florida when he was in high school. Her family moved to California when she was in middle school and to Illinois when she was in high school. When Matt was a kid, he wanted to be a car designer. When Jenny was a kid, she wanted to be an artist. They both went to art school in Rhode Island. During freshman year, Matt helped Jenny wire a lamp for sculpture class. The lamp was made of lettuce and wilted in two days. “I’ve never made another lamp,” Jenny says. Matt and Jenny moved to Chicago, Illinois, after college. Aside from making children’s books, they fixed up a 100-year-old house. After 19 years in the Midwest, they moved to southern Washington to live closer to mountains and evergreen forests. “I love watching the mist weave through the trees,” Matt says. Matt and Jenny hope to one day visit every state in the United States. They have 12 more to go.

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    • 3/5
      Basically just an illustrated science book. I guess from the description I expected it to be more "diagrams" to aid in explanation than just artistic portrayals of science, but it was definitely the latter. So to me this was pretty boring and a bit of a let down. If you're expecting what I was just go ahead and give this book a skip.
    • 4/5
      If you love science and you love art, you will find this book as irresistible as we do. The editors invited seventy-five artists to make illustrations based on questions posed to fifty scientists. Each two-page spread features the question with the scientist’s answer on one side, and an artist’s interpretation on the other. The queries are ones most of us wonder about: What existed before the Big Bang? What is the origin of the moon? Why do we blush? How do migrating animal find their way back home? What did dinosaurs eat? How much of human behavior is predetermined? How do squirrels remember where they bury their nuts? Why do we hiccup? Why are humans and chimps so different if they have nearly identical DNA? As for the answers to these questions, it soon becomes clear why the editors chose this quote from Richard Feynman as an epigraph:"…I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.”But even if there is no definitive answer (and sometimes there isn't), you still get a pretty good explanation, and a summary of the state of knowledge about the question at the present time. Most of the entries are succinct, clear, and understandable to the lay person, written by an array of contributors including physicists, aerospace engineers, biologists, research librarians, and quite a few professors.The illustrations are outstanding. Sometimes you may not quite “get” them until you read the accompanying science piece, and then their cleverness impresses you all the more. The artists chosen by the compilers are from a mix of backgrounds, and include comic artists as well as fine artists. Most of the pictures are ones I wish I had on my walls.At the end of the book, there are helpful indexes of not only of the questions explored, but of the names of contributing scientists and artists.Evaluation: This book will provide endless stimulation, both intellectually and visually. The authors said their goal was to bringing back a sense of wonder in the age of Google and Wikipedia, and they have certainly succeeded. Highly recommended!
    • 2/5
      Must say that I was disappointed with this book. The cover art is a cut away section of the stem of a plant and I thought that all the illustrations would be similarly enlightening. But not to be. In most cases I found it almost impossible to glean anything useful at all from the illustrations and the text (of necessity) is rather short and simplistic....usually finishing with something like "We just don't know". They do cover a wide range of subjects ranging from astrophysics to junk DNA and cancer ......but, as mentioned above, the discussion is rather simplistic. I rate the book as two stars mainly because the illustrations are so unhelpful.