May 2012
“But at their core, artists and scientists are not so different from one another....”
– Bill O’Brien, National Endowment for the Arts
From The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science, exploring the creative practices of art and science and where they intersect, sometimes outside the comfort zones of either discipline.
(via jtotheizzoe)
“It only takes one person to change your life: you.”
– Ruth Casey (via julie911)
Did Humans Invent Music? →
jtotheizzoe:
Psychologists Gary Marcus & Geoffrey Miller debate the origins of human music and its associated behaviors. Is it a cultural invention, a technology that piggy-backs on language? Or is there a deeper genetic wiring behind our music and its neurological effects?
Marcus says:
“Ancient” seems like a bit of stretch to me. The oldest known musical artifacts are some bone flutes...
What's Up With "Despite" and "In Spite of," and...
theyuniversity:
GIF source: shutupandbemysterious
Strange but True: Earth Is Not Round →
jtotheizzoe:
If Earth is a blue marble, it’s certainly not one you’d want to depend on in the chalk circle. Instead of being a sphere, it’s actually far more irregular (and not just the mountains, duh). Charles Q. Choi lays out lots of oddities about our lumpy planet at SciAm.
Here’s some tidbits:
Earth is actually an oblate spheroid, bigger at the equator than at the poles.
Gravity is...
