No one ever told Graeme Jones not to play with his food. The chemical ecologist and sculptor has created a sci-art exhibit for the British Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) called Carbon Rapture. It relates to the RSC's 2009 'food' theme, and features larger-than-life chemical models of different forms of carbon, “the chemical present in all foods”, as blogger Chloé Sharrocks writes on Nature Network's London blog (http://tinyurl.com/nns22n).
The exhibit graces the courtyard of the RSC's Burlington House headquarters in London, with models including the translucent pyramid of Diamond and the geometrically pleasing Buckyball. Sharrocks, a science communication graduate student at Imperial College London, writes, “Graeme is a passionate scientific communicator who has, in his own words, spent the last few years 'trying to re-establish science at the heart of culture'”.
Jones thinks that science has lost its cultural identity, and that this plays into the public's mistrust of it. He hopes that his exhibit, which will run until 27 August, will help the public better appreciate scientific endeavour.
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From the blogosphere. Nature 460, 550 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/7255550c
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