On Saturday, we traveled to the Getty Museum. I was particularly intrigued by a photographer on display named Jo Ann Callis. Her collection was called “The Twirling Woman” and it was contrived of her works from the start of her career up to her more recent work.
As part of our sci-fi film series, we watched the movie “The Butterfly Effect” this evening. This movie was unique in that its plot is centered around the character Evan Treborn’s ability to travel back in time. Evan, who suffered severe “blackouts” as a child under moments of high stress, finds his diaries depicting the […]
Being very interested in film, I have been quite drawn to the genre of science fiction. However, we as a society are quite drawn to the genre for, I believe, science fiction is the harbinger of innovation in technology. The genre itself sparks so many ideas in one’s mind. Unlike the genres of fantasy, drama, […]
Many things are too small to see with the human eye, yet are all around us. Things at the nanoscale where only thought in theory before the first microscopes were invented. In 1609, Galileo Galilei made the first compound microscope with a convex and concave lens to look at things much smaller […]
Today was a relatively unconventional day, we had Victoria Vesna come and speak to us about her career as an artist, and the way that her life was very random and took her in so many directions from her home country of Lebanon to school in Jakarta, Indonesia and then all over the United States. […]
On the black table, the fluorescent cubes sat, captivating everyone’s attention. Everyone in the crowd sat and stared, wide-eyed, jaws locked. Shining on everyone’s faces different hues, the man explained how the objects worked and how they could help science. Everyone kept watching the glowing shapes, unable to release their attention. So, it wasn’t that […]
Today, as I sat in my seat, waiting, I learned something amazing that blew my mind. During the Nanotechnology lessons, I realized that Nanotechnology affects many subjects and broadens the subjects. One of the main things nanotechnology affects greatly is medicine. In a field called nanomedicine, nanotechnology allows scientists and doctors to understand new things, […]
As we walked to our daily movie today, Brent stopped and pointed to the sky, “I like looking at the sky from here because the yellow leaves make the sky look purple.” We looked up; it was true, the light must have bent differently. And I could not help thinking that the theme of […]
Friday, July 10th marked the fateful day of our midterm presentations. Emotions of terror, anxiety and nausea swept through the 3rd floor of Hedrick Hall. The ArtSci students were down to the last core and hanging on to sanity by a thread, drifting more into madness with each passing second. What to do for our […]