![]() ![]() And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 115Īnd what sort of deceptive picture did Wittgenstein have in mind? well, how about the 1904 “ Plum-pudding model” of what the atom might look like? Wrong, and productive of all sorts of mistaken hypotheses. “All models are wrong some are useful.” smiley statistician George Box ![]() The DNA Double-Helix: We all knew that Watson and Crick‘s revelation came with this model:īut it’s easy to forget this indispensable antecedent: the enigmatic yet foundational x-ray crystallography of Rosalind Franklin: Gael praised Galileo’s revolutionary images (drawings? diagrams?) of Jupiter’s moons:Īnd Leonardo’s stunning anatomical drawings: ![]() Or maybe you’d rather click through to watch a gorgeous video Gael and his team have created? ![]() Start by checking out Digizyme‘s image of the spike protein attaching the SARS-CoV2 virus to a hapless cell and fusing their membranes: And because Gael’s work proves that a picture can be worth far more than a thousand words, our RTB post is more picturesque than usual. What’s a picture worth? How about the picture that allows scientists to grasp what’s actually going on in a cell–or on the spiky outside of an invading virus? Gael McGill, Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School is founder and CEO of Digizyme and has spent his career exploring and developing different modes for visualizing evidence.įor this scientific conversation taped back in 2021, John is joined once again by Brandeis neuroscientist Gina Turrigiano (think ep 4 Madeline Miller think ep 2 Addiction!). ![]()
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