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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Making Memories with a Microchip
Ted Berger is trying to build a microchip that can ...
Ted Berger is trying to build a microchip that can remember things for us. He teaches biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, and his goal is to create a device that can take over for the hippocampus of the brain, translating...
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They're Made Out of Meat
We humans are pretty hot stuff — the most highly ...
We humans are pretty hot stuff — the most highly evolved species on the planet, or so we like to think. This parable by science-fiction writer Terry Bisson suggests otherwise. To some space aliens who think they’ve seen it all,...
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Power Cart
Mouna Andraos is an artist and web designer who’s always ...
Mouna Andraos is an artist and web designer who’s always been fascinated by street vendors since her childhood in Lebanon. She created a working portable generator that uses a crank and a solar cell to charge cell phones and laptops, and...
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DARCI: A Computer With Great Taste
To make art, a computer first needs to understand what ...
To make art, a computer first needs to understand what art is. A group of computer scientists at Brigham Young University is attempting this by feeding their program images by the thousands and describing those images. Digital Artist...
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Spencer Wells: Making Maps From DNA
Where did we come from? Evolutionary biologist Spencer Wells is ...
Where did we come from? Evolutionary biologist Spencer Wells is pretty close to the answer. He's the National Geographic "Explorer-in-Residence" and heads an initiative called the Genographic Project. By collecting DNA samples from...
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10,000 Year Clock
The Long Now Foundation is designing a clock to tell ...
The Long Now Foundation is designing a clock to tell time over 10,000 years. It will tick once every minute, chime once a year, and play music once a millennium.
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Warming Oceans, Threatened Cities
If there's one climate change scientists are sure of, it's ...
If there's one climate change scientists are sure of, it's that sea levels are rising - and coastal cities are in their way. In a 2010 exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art, teams of architects envisioned radical approaches to the problem. Studio...
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Aha Moment: Star Trek
In college, Ronald D. Moore's Captain Kirk dorm room poster ...
In college, Ronald D. Moore's Captain Kirk dorm room poster prompted teasing, but his passion for the original "Star Trek" has paid off. A few years ago he transformed the sci-fi TV genre when he reimagined the cheesy 1980s "Battlestar Galactica" into...
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Method in the Madness
In the official Hollywood template, you pretty much can't be ...
In the official Hollywood template, you pretty much can't be a genius without also being nuts. Is there a connection between great creativity and mental illness? Tamar Brott speaks with Kaye Redfield Jamison and other psychiatrists to separate the...
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Future Tense
The painter Alexis Rockman gets worked up by news from ...
The painter Alexis Rockman gets worked up by news from the scientific world. He wants his paintings to help people visualize — and get a little freaked out by — big phenomena like genetic engineering and global warming. He doesn’t...
