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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Synesthesia for the Rest of Us
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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Museum of God
Amateur paleontologist Jon Halsey isn't afraid to turn over a ...
Amateur paleontologist Jon Halsey isn't afraid to turn over a few rocks. By digging in areas near his home outside of Dallas, he's been able to amass an extensive collection of fossils which he stores in his garage. He calls the collection...
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Foldit
Biochemist David Baker helped create a computer game called"Foldit" that ...
Biochemist David Baker helped create a computer game called"Foldit" that thousands are playing around the world. But it's not about commercial success. Baker wants to analyze the structure of proteins, and it turns out that humans are a...
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Making Friends with Drones
Missy Cummings saw the dawn of the age of drones ...
Missy Cummings saw the dawn of the age of drones — sorry, “unmanned aerial vehicles” — firsthand from the deck of an aircraft carrier. As one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots, flying an F-18, Cummings realized...
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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....
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Technicolor
There are certain things we expect at the movies these ...
There are certain things we expect at the movies these days — a bucket of popcorn, and color on the screen. But back when movies cost a nickel, they were all in black and white. 80 years ago,Technicolor revolutionized movies...
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Hedy Lamarr
Hollywood likes to cast stars as pioneering scientists; it really ...
Hollywood likes to cast stars as pioneering scientists; it really happened in the 1940s. Hedy Lamarr was once billed as the most beautiful woman in the world, and she’s partly responsible for the telecom innovation behind cell phones,...
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Synesthesia for the Rest of Us
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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Birdman
Paul Bartlett was slogging through a PhD in animal behavior ...
Paul Bartlett was slogging through a PhD in animal behavior when he decided he would rather be painting. Bartlett finished his studies, left behind the zebra finches in his research lab, and now depicts razorbills, puffins, and other shore life...
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Seaching for Words: Your Ngram Questions
Recently, Kurt Andersen talked with the research scientists who partnered ...
Recently, Kurt Andersen talked with the research scientists who partnered with Google to develop the Ngram Viewer. The Ngram Viewer sifts through millions of digitized books and documents, looking for patterns in word usage across centuries....
