This two week summer program truly changed my life in just that short amount of time. It not only taught me hundreds of things I had no clue about, but also prepared me for a much more diverse, independent environment on a college campus. Every morning, waking up early for lectures were a […]
A few days ago, a man specialized in electronic music and sound named Tyler Adams visited and gave out group an interesting lecture on his profession. The most interesting part of his lecture, in my opinion, was the subject of auto-tuning music. Auto-tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies that […]
Patricia Piccinini is an Australian artist born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She emigrated to Australia in 1972 with her family and studied economic history in Canberra before training in Fine Art in Melbourne. In 2003, she was selected as the artist to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale with her sculpture […]
On Tuesday night – well, technically on Wednesday morning – our whole Sci/Art Nanotech group walked to Westwood to see the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We each paid our counselor nine dollars for a ticket and went around eleven o’clock at night to wait in line to get descent seats. […]
A microscope is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy. The term microscopic means minute or very small, not visible with the eye unless aided by a microscope. Microscopes […]
Leonardo da Vinci was a genius who’s talents overpowered all of those around him. He was a great artist, philosopher, engineer and scientist. Most people know him for his art, but of true value was his science. To him, his astonishingly painted works of art were nothing to his preoccupation with Nature, and […]
I’ve often wondered if there was a connection between art, science, and even history. I am thrilled to have discovered that there indeed is. Hearing of how people in Europe incorporated nanoparticles in their lives in one of my lectures blossomed my interest on the subject. After some research, I found that recently announced […]
Nanomedicine demonstrates the future of our well-being and health. It is by definition “the medical application of nanotechnology.“ Nanomedicine will employ engineered molecular machine systems to address medical problems, and will use molecular knowledge to maintain and improve human health at the molecular scale. This useful and new technique of medicine offers tools for […]