Neuroscience. The Intersection of Data and Design. Speaker: Mark Hansen (UCLA) Organizer: Meghan Groome (The New York Academy of Sciences)Presented by Math for America and the Science Education Initiative Reported by Stephanie B. H. Kelly | Posted July 1, 2011 Overview Data are as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, and the tools for their collection and analysis are changing almost every aspect of our lives. On May 19, 2011, at The Intersection of Data and Design, UCLA Professor Mark Hansen spoke to educators about the possibilities of these hybrids with the arts. Hansen began his talk by contemplating how one might define a science of data, as opposed to statistics or math or computer science per se. After making a case for data science, Hansen shifted gears and presented some of the hybrid data/design works he's been part of.
Hansen spent a fair amount of time discussing one of these news pieces, a permanent artwork in the lobby of the New York Times building. Use the tab above to find multimedia from this event. Presented by: Speaker. Science & the City Podcasts. The Art & Science of Modernist Cuisine. Modernist Cuisine: Art, Adventure & Science Introduction By Nathan Myhrvold's account, disrupting traditional, sometimes inaccurate, understandings of food and cooking is a sure way to upset people. "Our relationship with our food is profound—our food becomes us," he explained, and people often react viscerally to the suggestion of change.
For this reason, Myhrvold has received, among much enthusiasm, some staunch objection to the vision of cooking outlined in his Modernist Cuisine: the Art and Science of Cooking. But as his conversation with Padma Lakshmi confirmed, this 5-volume tome is much more than novel recipes and much more than change for its own sake: it explains everything from the scientific underpinnings of traditional cooking, to the new materials, techniques, and methods of so-called "modernist cuisine. " This view of cooking aims not to displace traditional cooking but to understand it, all while outlining the novel approach of this new kind of cuisine. Cooking as adventure. Naturally Obsessed. The eLIFE Podcast. The Brain During Religious Experiences" Because of the work connecting temporal lobe epilepsy and spiritual experiences, scientists previously believed that the temporal lobe was the only part of the brain involved in religious feelings.
Recent imaging studies, however, have shown that many parts of the brain are activated during a religious experience. At the forefront of these imaging studies is Andrew Newberg, a doctor at the University of Pennsylvania. Newberg used single photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT, imaging to take pictures of the brain during religious activity. SPECT provides a picture of blood flow in the brain at a given moment, so more blood flow indicates more activity. One of Newberg's studies examined the brains of Tibetan Buddhist monks as they meditated. The monks indicated to Newberg that they were beginning to enter a meditative state by pulling on a piece of string.
At that moment, Newberg injected radioactive dye via an intravenous line and imaged the brain. Home - Brain Science Podcast. iBioSeminars: Free biology videos online. Home : Neuropod podcasts. Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology. Dan Dennett on our consciousness. Media.hhmi.org/MarderMod01SD.mov.