Science Is Art is of course a web site, but also an alias (a fictious business name registered in Marin County, California) for me: Michael W. Konrad. The web site has a ".com" top level domain name, however, it's not really commercial. Mostly this site is a collection of essays I have written over a period of several years on a variety of topics. Please send a note to michael@scienceisart.com if you:

• have questions about any of the content,
• see something that you believe is incorrect,
• have something to add, or a reference to related material,
• just like some of the essays (scientists have egos too).

On the right I am looking at you with a rather tired expression because I have spent many tens of minutes on a Mathematica script to generate a phase diagram to measure the synchronization of blood circulation in a colonial tunicate. Maybe it's easy for some, but I have to claw my way along line by line.

In my youth I was a professor of biochemistry at UCLA, then research biologist at UC Berkeley, and then a scientist at the biotech company Cetus developing cancer therapeutics. I spent several years trying to start a biotech company to develop DNA analysis. Now I give talks, write and do research, primarily on marine organisims. Look for a reference to my book Life on the Dock on this site, or search for it on Amazon.com.