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From Wired Top Stories:
We live in an image-dominated age, and popular science abounds with visuals: eye-popping photographs, gorgeous graphics and slick information design. Amidst all this eye candy, not much attention is paid to figures accompanying articles in scientific journals and white papers.
Even if they're utilitarian and low-resolution, though - or perhaps because of that - these figures are a sort of scientific folk art. They convey complex findings or principles with simplicity and grace, and sometimes even beauty.
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