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, ...

Week 8 - Nanotechnology + Art

With the usage of nanoparticles, I believe fashion will undergo drastic transformations. As explained in this week's lecture videos, when we manipulate on the nanoscale, we can change the properties of the molecules. In particular, I was intrigued by the creation of self-cleaning fabrics. Speaking as a college student, laundry is very time consuming. When done in a rush, our clothes can even become damaged through shrinking or stains. Researchers at RMIT University have been developing a cheap nanostructure that degrades organic matter when exposed to light using "hot electrons". If this is integrated into textiles, we can merely use some sunlight to clean our clothes, saving our money and time. Not to mention, this material would also be environmentally friendly, since our clothes would be preserved longer and we won't need to waste as much water. Nanostructures grown on cotton textiles (RMIT University) < https://phys.org/news/2016-03-nano-enhanced-textiles...

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