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In her 25 years of teaching biological sciences, Professor Mary Coyne has sought appropriate diagrams and images to illustrate the concepts of what she terms a visual discipline. Until recently, she used both slides and overhead transparencies during lectures – methods which she found inflexible, colorless, or boring. Moreover, these methods constantly thwarted her goal of new and better ways to illustrate a point. Frequent refocussing of the slide projector frustrated her by interrupting the flow of her lectures. Worse still was the scarcity of study review materials available for students. One slide carousel left on reserve at the library was never enough, nor was slide projection a practical study method.