Week 5 - Midterm Project

Week 7 - Neuroscience + Art

Aristotle, the father of psychology, had believed that the brain was merely an organ built to cool down the blood in the heart and lungs. With developed technology, science can now confirm with microscopes and electricity that the brain is the conductor of thought and emotion. In a lot of literary works and art, the heart seems to always be romanticized as the driver of human passion while the mind is always portrayed as the rational counterpart. Artists and even scientists have challenged this notion through beautiful depictions of neuroscience. Split Santiago Ramon y Cajal is considered to be the father of modern neuroscience, as he has won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in medicine and physiology. However, according the Vesna's lecture, he referred to neurons as "mysterious butterflies of the souls" and their dendrites as the wings. He obtained his artistic fulfillment within science, as he spent hours drawing natural scenes that would be later used in textboo...

Week 1 - Two Cultures

Reflective of John Brockman's views of the "third culture" to be contemporary scientists, the field of computer s cience stands to be substantial evidence to his beliefs. With such a broad range of study, from artificial intelligence to web design, I in no way feel as if I'm only part of either the "scientist" or the "artist" side of the supposed separation when majoring in Linguistics and Computer Science. As an enthusiastic designer, I love taking care in integrating the proper aesthetics through front end web development. In my free time, I also enjoy mindless doodling or even some recreational reading. I'm also especially interested in studying the natural language processing area of CS, a discipline that uses linguistics to analyze and appropriate human languages for a variety of purposes, as researcher Chowdhury explains. My interests might seem to be a little abnormal for a "STEM" major, but these disciplines, in reality, ...

Event 3: Final Review

The following will be an outline of my study plan for this course in the next three weeks, per Professor Vesna's instructions for this event. (WikiHow) <http://www.wikihow.com/images/c/c3/Avoid-Distractions-While-Studying-Step-22.jpg> Week 9 Monday, May 29 Do Week 9 viewings/notes Intro, Powers of 10, Lecture Part 1 - intro, Lecture Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Tuesday, May 30 Finish Week 9 viewings/notes Lecture Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 Do Week 9 readings Coded Utopia: Makrolab, Arctic Perspectives, Leonardo Space Arts, Powers of Ten Blog Look over additional resources Wednesday, May 31 Write up Week 9: Space + Art Blog Thursday, June 1 Brainstorm/choose final paper topic Friday, June 2 Find scholarly research (10 references, 2 sources) create citations/sources Saturday, June 3 Visit Fowler Museum Exhibit: African Print: Taste, Globalization & Style Visit Hammer Museum Exhibi...

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