On a cold winter day, when someone opens a door to get into our warm house, a cold blast of air also comes in. How Houdini dreamed
Category: Science
Do Americans See Differently from Asians? The Myth Revealed
Researchers at the University of Michigan measured the eye movements of American and Chinese graduate students who viewed photographs
The Human Brain Project – A Virtual Brain on the Horizon
Oh, a schizophrenic mouse! This or that part of the brain lights up when we are deciding to eat this pie or that…An ‘experiment’ using MRI to find out why women like shoes …
How to Tell Good Art? Will Peer Review Work?
I write about art and science, their similarities and differences, their struggles and conciliations; how they are perceived…
The Aesthetic Experience Exposed – The Science
The New York critic Peter Schjeldahl’s flip-flop last year in his opinion of a painting, Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), by Gustav Klimt started
Can Video Games Be Art, Be Ballet, or Be Science? FoldIt Protein Folding Games
Protein folding? Well, it’s a video game.
Since 2008, scientists
Learning at Harvard – Making Pottery & Watching Plants Grow
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process – William James.
Process is the new
Art – Science’s Poor Cousin?
Art, glamorous as its image may seem, struggles to be taken seriously as an academic discipline in universities. Perhaps as a consequence, there is the constant
Is The Internet Conscious? Could It Be?
The short answer is
Richard Feynman 1918-1988 – The Value of Art
On this day, February 15, Richard Feynman died in Los Angeles, in 1988. He was of course the Nobel physicist (1965) who was well known for his idiosyncrasies. One of them was that he played the Bongo drum (professionally), and furthermore, from repairing radios to picking locks… to painting and poetry he did it all. So on this day, I will print a poem from one of his lectures, The Value of Science: