max s. gerber(the latest shot)

i probably watch more TV than is good for me. certainly my DVR has more of a backlog at any given point than i can comfortably manage. if i were a different kind of person i’d blame my parents – a showbiz family who, as i was growing up, not only had a television set [...]

steven pinker is a psychologist at harvard who specializes in the evolution of language. in an appearance on the colbert report he was asked to explain how the mind works in five words or less. his answer: brain cells fire in patterns.
he is a charter member of the luxuriant and flowing hair club for scientists. [...]

most of us feel broken in some way. often this feeling is quiet and unseen, but even if we don’t admit it, even if it’s invisible, even if we’re totally wrong, in many of us there’s something that feels a bit incomplete. i don’t think this is bad. i think it builds character. it makes [...]

last week i was contacted by a woman named hilary gooding. hilary is a textile artist working on a project involving quilts of prominent scientists with the aim of displaying them in museums in the UK next year. hilary wanted to use one of my 2006 photographs of james d. watson (nobel laureate (with francis [...]

i was raised in an atheist jewish household in two of the biggest (and most liberal) cities in the country. my brother and i never even went to hebrew school. i like to say that we’re more jew-ish than jewish. we love matzo ball soup. we’re expert complainers. but no bar mitzvahs. i have no [...]

searching through my various geeky news feeds today i was delighted to see that the 2009 nobel prize in chemistry went to venkatraman “venki” ramakrishnan, for his work in mapping the structure of the ribosome.
in late may i went to a symposium on evolutionary biology at cold spring harbor laboratory where i was lucky enough [...]

i met vic one day by accident. i was taking pictures at the research lab where she works, it was the summer, it was hot, and i was lugging my gear around by myself. she was standing outside smoking a cigarette. i had a long list of subjects i was supposed to shoot that week, [...]

last week i had a shoot that took place in a zoological laboratory. i’m not sure if the place was really appropriate to the subject, or if it was just available and really cool to be in. maybe a mix of the two. it was more interesting than any of our other options at the [...]

ah, why is it that it always seems like my favorite shot from any given shoot is the one that’s almost guaranteed never to get published? well, i guess that’s where the glorious internet comes in. thanks, internet.
ken berry is an awfully nice guy with a giant garage full of robots and robot parts. unfortunately [...]

new scientist magazine in the UK used one of my photos of james watson in their october 20th issue. the deal went down before all of watson’s controversy in england last month, and i’m pleased to see that the article didn’t dwell on that. i’m not going to comment much on the hub-bub, except to [...]