July 10, 2009 There are 3.4 million cases of anemia in the United States with a rate of about 4,500 deaths per year. Anemia is a condition in which are not enough healthy red blood cells in the body, which can be detected when there is an insufficient level of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin […]
Early in the first week a counselor had mentioned that at nano scales, substances have properties that wouldn’t make sense. In other words nanoparticles have properties that seem to break the laws of physics. I never really understood this concept and in fact I never attempted to learn it. It really didn’t seem logical until […]
Usually when I think of shapes, I think of geometry and of circles and triangles and squares and what not. I also think of curves, lines, hyperbolas and parabolas. I remember in Algebra 2 my teacher would make us to “Math Aerobics” in which our arms would mimic the shapes of different quadratic functions. Today’s […]
The topic of today’s study was Art, Science, and Nature. We began in the auditorium listening to a lecture about the Six Degrees of Separation. In this presentation, Leonardo de Caprio/da Vinci was connected to Barrack Obama after only 6 steps. These presentations ranged from the introduction of “vaults” and nanobots to Michael Jackson performing […]
The topic of today’s study was Seeing the Invisible. During the first lecture, many subjects were covered including the many dimensions, the different types of microscopes, and the introduction to Nanoscience/Nanotechnology. At the beginning of the instruction, we were taught how visualization, on the nano-scale, helps develop views both artistically and scientifically. Unlike light microscopes, […]
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 […]
Shapes are an important part of all different types of design and science. Today our lecturers discussed the use of shapes in both the atomical level and the large scale in terms of architecture. The section on shapes in design particularly interested me because I love unique, contemporary architecture since it blends both engineering and […]
It’s the second Monday of the ArtSci Program at UCLA. And as if in correspondence with the plasma lab and its contents, the weather today was the hottest it’s been our entire stay here. For the science-y part of the day, the LAPD lab or the Basic Plasma Science Facility lab that we visited was […]
The doors opened slowly, and we entered the “Icons of the Desert” exhibit. On the walls around us hung Australian Aboriginal paintings from a tiny settlement called Papunya. I felt as if I had just gone back in time to the 1970s when the Sydney school teacher Geoffrey Bardon gave the Aboriginal men paint […]