It’s been a tiring two weeks, but I guess as a whole, it’s been well worth it. I’ve accomplished many things all at the same time–participating in this program has helped me knock down numerous birds with one stone. Bird bowling. In any case, it started with my being able to visit UCLA and live […]
Today started out with a lecture from Victoria Vesna. She talked about art and how it had influenced her life, taking her places all over the world to pursue different ideas. Some of her works seemed pretty revolutionary to me because I had never seen anything like them before in any museum that I had […]
As I once mentioned in another blog entry, it seems like we’ve observed Sci|Art through all the senses in the past two weeks. In fact, just this Wednesday, we had Mr. Tyler Adams talk to us about sound and hearing. Additionally, we went to the anechoic chamber, which was quite the unique experience. First […]
Ahhh Harry Potter. As a whole, Harry Potter movies are disappointing and dramatically different from the exact storylines of their corresponding books. However, I felt relatively satisfied with some of the sections of the book expressed by Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I’m going to talk about a lot of things, and […]
07.14.09 “They stole our idea!!!” I whispered vehemently to Amy, who was sitting next to me in the auditorium that morning. A second later, the two of us burst into giggles, seeing as Nokia’s concept had been developed a year earlier that we had even met each other. In the first days of the Art|Sci […]
Today’s morning lecture on shapes defining our world was particularly fascinating for me… Well, taking a step back, it’s pretty cool that through this program, we’ve basically been covering the idea that the British joke science series we watch every morning are named after–! It seems that Art|Sci really focuses on new or creative ways […]
07.08.09 Wednesday was an interesting day—Art, Science, and Nature. There were many individual things that intrigued me. We started off the day mostly through a few lab visits. First off, my group went into the engineering building, where we visited some scientists whom developed the portable blood-testing cell phone addition, using the “LUCAS”. […]
07.09.09 Our worldviews= the way we look at our world. One’s personal view of the world and how one interprets it; The totality of one’s beliefs about reality; A general philosophy or view of life. (as defined by Wikitionary) But then take a step back, and you realize that the world you view is just… LIGHT! And […]
07.07.09 So then. Tuesday was the first “real” day of our program! We learned about microscopes. Just beginning to take the first glance into a super duper microscopic world. Woohoo! So what did I have down in my personal notes? X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and atomic force microscopes. And we even […]