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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Drinking and Smoking: Do They Make You More Creative?
The association of art with altered states of consciousness goes ...
The association of art with altered states of consciousness goes back a long way. Archeological evidence of fermented beverages and some of the oldest musical instruments were found at the same 9,000-year-old site in China. In modern times,...
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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.
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Plastics
Did you ever wonder who decides the color of your ...
Did you ever wonder who decides the color of your shampoo bottle? As part of our on-going series about creativity and science, Lu Olkowski talks with a polymer chemist who creates pigment formulas for plastics at the Engelhard Corporation.
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Understanding Creative Savants
We all know the Thomas Edison line: genius is 1% ...
We all know the Thomas Edison line: genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. But there are those who don't seem to perspire at all. Their extraordinary gifts seem to come from no where. We often call those people savants. And some neuroscientists...
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Symmetry and Sex Appeal
Are supermodels more symmetrical? Beauty expert Kelley Quan joins Kurt ...
Are supermodels more symmetrical? Beauty expert Kelley Quan joins Kurt and Mario Livio to talk about how symmetry affects human attraction. Quan is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the online fashion magazine ZooZOOM.com, and she explains...
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A Dance Piece that Takes You Inside the Heart
“4Chambers” premiered in New York in 2013, and was most ...
“4Chambers” premiered in New York in 2013, and was most recently performed in an abandoned wing of a Brooklyn hospital; the company transformed a tiled room formerly used to prepare bodies of dead patients. The work is a kind of hybrid of...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Final Performance Will Be Digitally Created
When Philip Seymour Hoffman died last month, he was still ...
When Philip Seymour Hoffman died last month, he was still in the process of filming the final The Hunger Games movie. Hoffman plays Plutarch Heavensbee, the mastermind behind the Games. Instead of a rewrite to accommodate the missing scenes,...
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Seeing Sound: Synesthetic Art
Synesthesia causes people to hear music -– or see letters ...
Synesthesia causes people to hear music -– or see letters or numbers -– in color. Neuroscience is beginning to unravel what’s going on in the brains of people with this cerebral phenomenon, but hasn’t yet explained why the...
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Playing Doctor
Television drama has created the impression of an ideal world ...
Television drama has created the impression of an ideal world where decisions in hospitals are made quickly and cost is never an issue. It directly affects our expectations for treatment, according to Billy Goldberg, an emergency-room physician, and...
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You're Living in a Science Fiction Story
It’s easy to look back at old science fiction and ...
It’s easy to look back at old science fiction and see it as silly. But there are important ideas embedded in those stories that influenced scientists and the way technology developed. Take the first science fiction film, Le Voyage dans La...
