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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Musical Injuries
We’ve all heard stories about sports and dance injuries that ...
We’ve all heard stories about sports and dance injuries that abruptly end careers, but musicians actually face as many physical risks as professional athletes. When trumpeter Matthew Steinfeld injured his mouth and couldn’t make his horn...
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Big Data and Culturomics
Big Data — and how we use it — is ...
Big Data — and how we use it — is changing the way we understand our culture and history. Research scientists Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean Baptiste Michel (Uncharted: Big Data as Lens on Human Culture) teamed up with Google to create the...
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Garage Inventors
All over the country, amazing science is happening without institutional ...
All over the country, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. Matthew Cavnar talked to inventors in garages, basements, a Quonset hut, even NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to see what home...
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Embroidered Implants
Embroidery's not just for pillowcases any more. Design curator Matilda ...
Embroidery's not just for pillowcases any more. Design curator Matilda McQuaid tells us about an intricate little piece of polyester that only the surgeons ever get to see.
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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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Number 1 For 37 Minutes
Luke DuBois is a musician and computer programmer who has ...
Luke DuBois is a musician and computer programmer who has spent the last couple of years developing a technique he calls time-lapse phonography. Much like the way financial analysts sample the stock market to determine prices, time-lapse...
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Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language
Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman named Christopher Alexander ...
Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman named Christopher Alexander tried to revolutionize architecture. In A Pattern Language, Alexander told architects and planners to design homes on emotional and spiritual principles – not on traffic flow. The...
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Becoming the Bionic Man
Charlie Neumann is the protagonist of Machine Man, a novel ...
Charlie Neumann is the protagonist of Machine Man, a novel by Max Barry. But his story has a real parallel in Hugh Herr, a leading bionics developer at MIT, and a double amputee following a mountain-climbing...
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The Soundtrack of Science
Biology professor Hazel Sive teaches at MIT. She thinks science ...
Biology professor Hazel Sive teaches at MIT. She thinks science could benefit from showing a little more emotion, so she started scoring her classroom presentations with Pink Floyd and The Who. Produced by Ari Daniel Shapiro.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Right-brained people are supposed to be artistic and spontaneous, while ...
Right-brained people are supposed to be artistic and spontaneous, while left-brainers are literal and analytical. Nobel Prize-winning neurology spawned this insight decades ago, along with the bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. But...
