User talk:Esad Ribic

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Comics for illustration of scientific concepts?

Hello Esad, welcome aboard CZ from me, too. Reading your profile made me wonder whether you would like to contribute comics or sketches for the purpose of illustrating concepts or research designs in science -- I think this may become an interesting cross-disciplinary experience for everybody involved. To give you an example I often used verbally to communicate (mostly to German students) what my field, biophysics, is about: It can be thought of the combination of an Organisationsebenenfahrstuhl and a Methodenkarussel. The former (literally something like "lift between levels of organization") moves biophysicists up and down the biological hierarchies, while the latter (literally roughly equivalent to a a "merry-go-round for methods") provides a portfolio of methods that has to be turned with each use of the lift in order to find a method (or set thereof, in order to avoid the problem of The blind men and the elephant) suitable for investigations at a particular level of organization. My graphical design skills are rather limited to technical stuff, and so I never seriously attempted to turn these two concepts into graphical practice (though I have slides on these matters). Would you be interested in giving them a try for the biophysics article here? Thanks, Daniel Mietchen 04:01, 5 October 2008 (CDT)