PRI: Studio 360 - Science and Creativity
Science and Creativity from Studio 360: the art of innovation. A sculpture unlocks a secret of cell structure, a tornado forms in a can, and a child's toy gets sent into orbit. Exploring science as a creative act since 2005. Produced by PRI and WNYC, ...
Science and Creativity from Studio 360: the art of innovation. A sculpture unlocks a secret of cell structure, a tornado forms in a can, and a child's toy gets sent into orbit. Exploring science as a creative act since 2005. Produced by PRI and WNYC, and supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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The Art and Science of De-Extinction
Bringing extinct animals back has usually been left to the ...
Bringing extinct animals back has usually been left to the world of science fiction. But a group of biologists is attempting it in the real world. The organization Revive & Restore, a project of the Long Now Foundation, held a day-long TEDx...
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Hollywood Know-How Makes Good Medicine
A Louisiana physician (and amateur filmmaker) teamed up with a ...
A Louisiana physician (and amateur filmmaker) teamed up with a cinematographer to invent a system that they say improves the quality and reliability of photos used in medical records — using some basic Hollywood technology.
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Drone Art
If just reading the word “drone” makes you nervous, you’re ...
If just reading the word “drone” makes you nervous, you’re not alone. Americans have been uneasy – fascinated but nervous – ever since unmanned aerial vehicles entered our consciousness about a decade ago. We...
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A Neuroscientist Throws Science Overboard for Art
Neuroscience is a vast field. Here’s how Greg Dunn describes ...
Neuroscience is a vast field. Here’s how Greg Dunn describes it: “It’s as if in New York, there’s like a little neighborhood for electro-physiologists, there’s a little neighborhood for the behaviorists and for...
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A Quantified Artist Turns Her Data Into Sculpture
Take a look at Laurie Frick’s artwork, made up of ...
Take a look at Laurie Frick’s artwork, made up of colorful wooden blocks mounted to the gallery wall, and the first thing you think of is a childhood playroom strewn with building blocks. But Frick’s artwork is actually a complex...
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Bringing Female Heroes to the LEGO Universe
The LEGO brick as we know it was released in ...
The LEGO brick as we know it was released in 1958. But it wasn’t until 20 years later that the company made its first minifigure, or “minifig.” It was a little modular man with a yellow face: just two dots for eyes and a black curve...
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Synthetic Biology In Pop Culture
Synthetic biology sounds like a field inaccessible to the layperson, ...
Synthetic biology sounds like a field inaccessible to the layperson, but Kurt Andersen has been seeing these ideas play out in pop culture for decades. Screenwriters are fond of two basic archetypes. First, there's the lone...
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Blood Music
Actor Steven Kearney reads excerpts from Greg Bear's 1985 novel ...
Actor Steven Kearney reads excerpts from Greg Bear's 1985 novel Blood Music. Bear was one of the first sci-fi authors to delve deep into the possibilities of synthetic biology. In this section, a biologist named Michael Bernard is infected...
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The Ethics of Synthetic Biology
We usually praise art for sparking a conversation and even ...
We usually praise art for sparking a conversation and even making us uncomfortable — but does that mean anything bio-artists do is totally cool?
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Bio Art
Few artists have embraced bio-hacking as much as Oron Catts ...
Few artists have embraced bio-hacking as much as Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr. They’re a husband and wife team who run SymboticA, a lab for biological art at the University of Western Australia. Their first big buzzed-about...
