Gallery – Glass Microbiology - Luke Jerram. To Tug the Heartstrings, Music Must First Tickle the Brain. “The song has that triplet going on underneath that pushes it along, and at a certain point I wanted it to stop because the story suddenly turns very serious,” Mr. Simon said in an interview. “The stopping of sounds and rhythms,” he added, “it’s really important, because, you know, how can I miss you unless you’re gone?
If you just keep the thing going like a loop, eventually it loses its power.” An insight like this may seem purely subjective, far removed from anything a scientist could measure. But now some scientists are aiming to do just that, trying to understand and quantify what makes music expressive — what specific aspects make one version of, say, a sonata convey more emotion than another. The results are contributing to a greater understanding of how the brain works and of the importance of music in human development, communication and cognition, and even as a potential therapeutic tool.
Daniel J. “It just left me flat,” Dr. Before entering academia, Dr.
Pregnant man. Index2.php (application/pdf Object) Face two face. Dark science. Mickey Hart: There's a Fire on the Mountain. The drumbeat of politicians sounding the alarm about the need to rethink how we educate children in this country is music to my ears. But the rhythm of the conversation, which tends to focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, is missing a beat: STEM needs an A, for the Arts. How did I learn this? The hard way... I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? The more I studied music the more I recognized rhythmic patterns in nature and the relationship between the vibrations of a drum and the geometry of the universe.
Now the kid who hated science and math in high school works with the Nobel-prize winning astrophysicist George Smoot, collaborating on how to create music from the epic events created in the forming of the universe -- from the Big Bang to the galaxies, the stars and the planets. Neuroscientists also have shown that the brain is hardwired for music, innovation and creativity, all other human activities follow.
Opportunities. Map of scientific collaboration between researchers | Stuff I made. I was very impressed by the friendship map made by Facebook intern, Paul Butler and I realized that I had access to a similar dataset at Science-Metrix (an old employer I left a while ago). Instead of a database of friendship data, I had access to a database of scientific collaborations. Bibliometric firms use this kind of data to get a (very) approximated view of science, but I thought that for a data visualization, it was good enough From this database, I extracted and aggregated scientific collaboration between cities all over the world. For example, if a UCLA researcher published a paper with a colleague at the University of Tokyo, this would create an instance of collaboration between Los Angeles and Tokyo. The result of this process is a very long list of city pairs, like Los Angeles-Tokyo, and the number of instances of scientific collaboration between them.
Following that, I used the geoname.org database to convert the cities’ names to geographical coordinates.
Why open data & the arts are natural partners #openarts - Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab. In the run up to Culture Hackday, this is the latest post in our series on open data & the arts. Following on from Ben’s excellent introduction to what open data actually is (and isn’t), here we will start to articulate a vision for where this all might go. Clay Shirky, the renowned commentator on all things digital, has two phrases that I really like. The first is that technology doesn’t become socially useful until it becomes boring. This is patently true – while a particular technology is the latest shiny thing it will only remain the domain of early adopters and lack the ability to truly scale and create widespread impact and change. Home telephones were a priveleged toy when only 1% of the people you knew had one but an essential utility when 99% did. Clay’s second aphorism is that the reason there is such a discrepancy between levels of awareness, valuing and adoption of digital across our society is what he calls “an accident of history”. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Art + Science. Genpets. Chris jordan running the numbers. Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. ~cj, Seattle, 2008. POP! The First Human Male Pregnancy - Mr. Lee Mingwei. Science Museum - Visit the museum - Push Harder, Mr Jones!
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