Nano+Bio+Art

The focus of the day was most definitely the Getty museum. The wait for the bus to travel to the museum was long and painful as we were waiting for the bus for at least 20 minutes. The artistic perspectives provided by the Getty Museum of Art were welcome introductions considering the healthy dosage of [...]

http://www.laconiv.org/2006/pix/mus-calsci_450×600.jpg The two museums that we visited today were both excellent examples of the arts and the sciences. The focus of the day’s activities for the group was interactivity with science and art. The first museum had many displays and many fun and informative activity stations available at each exhibit. While many of the stations [...]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Dark_Side_of_the_Moon.png We learned about optics and colors today. Colors has always been one of my favorite subjects, and I have always been highly interested in the physical properties of light and how people perceive images. How light and colors can be transduced from external stimuli into nervous electrical impulses. One of the reasons why I [...]

  My first day in the art|sci nanolab was both exciting and painful. The art|sci nano lab day began slowly, the early morning wake up call left everyone iin the group tired and sluggish. The day was filled with long lectures specifically aimed at introducing the concept of the third culture and the bridging of the [...]