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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Adventures in 3D Sound!
Edgar Choueiri knows how things work; he’s a rocket scientist ...
Edgar Choueiri knows how things work; he’s a rocket scientist — officially, the Director of Princeton University's Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory. If NASA ever sends a person to Mars, Choueiri’s research...
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Diagnosing Literature
Was Bartleby the Scrivener depressed? Did Clarissa Dalloway need lithium? ...
Was Bartleby the Scrivener depressed? Did Clarissa Dalloway need lithium? Today's English lit students seem to want to medicate away the problems of classic literary characters. Studio 360's Eric Molinsky explores this phenomenon with help...
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Science Tattoos
Tattoos are the defining fashion statement of the present generation. ...
Tattoos are the defining fashion statement of the present generation. A few years ago, the writer Carl Zimmer was at a pool party and found that a young scientist friend of his, a neurobiologist, had a double helix printed on his back — a little...
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Nano-Photography
Felice Frankel spent the last 20 years photographing objects that ...
Felice Frankel spent the last 20 years photographing objects that only the most powerful microscopes can see. In her book No Small Matter, which she wrote with the Harvard chemist George Whitesides, Frankel shows what life on the...
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Finding Beauty in the Search for Dark Matter
Right now, one of the biggest races in science is ...
Right now, one of the biggest races in science is the search for dark matter. “It's really very very scary to know that after all these years of civilization we still don't know 95% of our universe,” says experimental physicist Elena...
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Why Is Pop Music So Sad?
Pop music's not what it used to be. That’s what ...
Pop music's not what it used to be. That’s what every generation of no-longer-kids says about what the kids are listening to, but fogey clichés aren’t necessarily wrong. A study published in the Journal of Psychology...
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Our Computers, Our Viruses, Our Selves
Computer viruses have evolved from an annoyance to a national ...
Computer viruses have evolved from an annoyance to a national security threat. Recently the Department of Homeland Security told Americans to disable Java on our home computers (a thing that few of us knew how to do) because of flaws that left it...
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The Flame Alphabet
William S. Burroughs famously said that “language is a virus.” ...
William S. Burroughs famously said that “language is a virus.” NovelistBen Marcus took Burrough's line as inspiration for The Flame Alphabet. In the book, the language of children has become literally poisonous to adults, and a...
