ABOUT THIS BLOG I report on the latest trends in science and the arts. I search the literature and news (and the world, in my travels) for instances where the two touch—inside the human body, sometimes quite funny. Check out the site… click the tag cloud… ENJOY. Happy travels!
Mao Revolution in Shantou – Art in the Provinces
Red Dreams, 2007, Zheng Yunghua, Shantou University, China
Here’s a refreshing piece of art – one made far away from
Learning at Shantou University – Reading Kafka in China
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal is now at the Hong Kong Museum of Art (through March 31). During the opening festivities there last December, word came that
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
An Engaging Museum – le Musée de la Musique
Cité de la Musique plaza on a Friday morning
Have you ever heard the
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
A Halloween Tale of Elegance – The Grotesque Fashion of the Rodarte Sisters
Driving north on the Pasadena Freeway, we would pass a cluster of old Victorian homes. One day, we noticed that a piece of