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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Magic Eye Paintings
As part of Studio 360's series on science and creativity,Sarah ...
As part of Studio 360's series on science and creativity,Sarah Lilley talks with scientists who admire the impressionist painter Claude Monet not just for his color choices, but for his ability to trick the human eye and brain.
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DJ Scientific
Marc Branch works at NASA as an aerospace engineer testing ...
Marc Branch works at NASA as an aerospace engineer testing instruments used on outer-space telescopes. When he's off the clock, Branch is one of the most sought after hip-hop DJs around the country. Leading a double life as "DJ Scientific"...
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Annalee Newitz: The Future is Coming to Get You
Scientists and science writers can rattle off all the sci-fi ...
Scientists and science writers can rattle off all the sci-fi that inspired them to build great things. But Annalee Newitz, editor of io9, thinks that dystopian science fiction is less inspirational, but more influential.
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Magic on the Brain
Magicians wow us on stage with sleight of hand and ...
Magicians wow us on stage with sleight of hand and misdirection. But it turns out there's also a lot magic can tell us about how our brains work. Produced by Michael May.
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Hollywood Know-How Makes Good Medicine
“Some doctors golf as their hobby,” says Shaun Carpenter, a ...
“Some doctors golf as their hobby,” says Shaun Carpenter, a wound care specialist in Louisiana; “my hobby is to make movies.” But in the process of amateur filmmaking, Dr. Carpenter has stumbled upon a way to improve his...
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Toxic Materials
The life of the average artist is not known for ...
The life of the average artist is not known for its sense of security. Most will experience little money, or fame, or recognition. They may dream of these things, but what many artists should be yearning for more than anything is… health...
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Imaginary Friends Forever
Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Marjorie Taylor, a psychology ...
Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Marjorie Taylor, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon, has been looking at imaginary friends and the children who have them. Taylor is exploring the idea that these children are more creative —...
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Object Breast Cancer
The pink ribbon has been an incredibly successful piece of ...
The pink ribbon has been an incredibly successful piece of marketing for breast cancer research. For cancer survivor Leonor Caraballo, though, it's supremely annoying. "I’ve always hated the color pink," she says. "I don’t like the...
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Viruses At The Movies
What radiation was to the 1950s — a real but ...
What radiation was to the 1950s — a real but poorly understood menace that served as an all-purpose plot device — viruses have become for our era. Viruses explain vampires in Blade, and zombies in I Am Legend and 28 Days Later....
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Does Your Zombie Have Rabies?
Bill Wasik, an editor at WIRED magazine, and co-author Monica ...
Bill Wasik, an editor at WIRED magazine, and co-author Monica Murphy, a public health veterinarian, trace our responses to rabies over millennia in Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus. Over the years, they say, old Eastern...
