Nano+Bio+Art

 Pinar’s discussion was kind of like being in my anatomy class. We learned all about the eyes, starting with cones and rods (1). In the retina of eye, one has coness for day time vision and rods for night time vision, but there are more rods than cones. Rods each focus on either red, blue, or green, and all light signals/impulses are directed to the optic nerve. After [...]

The super interesting part of my day was in the Getty Center (1). I think it’s because my group took the tour were we learned about the conservation aspect of the museum first. Although we already heard a lot of it when Giacomo Chiari (2) came.  They use the most interesting methods to look at a piece art in ways I never [...]

Today the lectures and presentations was a art, not quite art, and then art sandwich, and all of it relating to the brain. The day started with, I guess one could call it, “subconscious perception” of the brain. How, for example, a mother has strong responces to the sounds of her baby as an instinct. Or that the marketers realize the link between color and emotion and use red and [...]

Today was a day that public places brought old concepts and ideas into a relatively new light. The California Science Center (1) was a great place to learn and have fun. Nowadays, museums can take advantage of today’s cutting edge technology to make detailed displays, diverse aquariums, and fun exhibits. For example, in the part of the [...]

We started the day with a lecture by John Carpenter. He told us that there are “orange strokes” that cover embryonic spinal cord samples. The “strokes” are supposed to be like the strokes of a painting, it gives you a sense of its substance and what it may truly mean in the future. In development, ”stokes”  help determine whether or not the infant [...]

The first thing we did today was listen to an interesting lecture on optics and color. They explained several of the electromagnetic spectrum (1) which includes  radio waves to gamma rays. In certain other mediums such as vacuum, light of any wavelength travels at a fixed speed. Light slows down in water and glass: short wavelengths like blue travel farther than large [...]

Today was a fun day for me, we covered some stuff that i personally found ineresting. The first thing we did was learn about patterns in nature, such as the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/prime/articles/fibonac/index.asp. The really neat thing is that we got to go on a tour of the botanical garden and see the [...]

Wow, for only the second day, there was a lot of lab related stuff. We learned about a fasinating magnetic substance called ferrofluid. Making it from scratch was a bit tricky, but the results were worth it. The “spikes” are caused by the magnetic field of large magnets, they are still mysterious to me. Note: when making it, [...]

So far so good, nanotechnology has left a good first impression. We learned about the “third culture,” the first two being art and science. They tell us that our job is to find our own definition of whatever the “third culture” is. Based on the fact that our camp counselors keep asking us whether something is [...]