Further manifestations of the functional unities between art and science.
“Inventive graphic design and abstract models are helping researchers to make sense of a glut of data.”
http://www.nature.com/news/the-visualizations-transforming-biology-1.20201
“First-of-their-kind images by Berkeley Lab-led research team could aid in use of DNA to build nanoscale devices.” http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2016/03/30/revealing-the-fluctuations-of-flexible-dna-in-3-d/
Bookmarked for consideration of STEM pedagogical modeling and narratives-research in data visualization.
Posted by Joshua Michael
Filed: example model revisions, on need for minimizing semiotic mapping-drift in pedagogical & theoretical models (cf. example of discussion regarding “do atoms touch?”)
“(May 21, 2010) Professor Robert Sapolsky gives a lecture on emergence and complexity. He details how a small difference at one place in nature can have a huge effect on a system as time goes on. He calls this idea fractal magnification and applies it to many different systems that exist throughout nature.” (Stanford’s Youtube channel)
Filed in connection to the Santa Fe Institute and Complexity Explorer.
“Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer … Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, [holistically] – to create bold thinkers.” (TED page)
Just received news of credit transfer from USF to WCC to complete the 2.5 credits I needed for a second associate degree (Liberal Arts to compliment Health Sciences.) A matter of paperwork & time now. Onward then!
“Scientism takes many forms. In the humanities, it takes the form of pretending that philosophy, literature, history, music and art can be studied as if they were sciences, with ‘researchers’ compelled to spell out their ‘methodologies’—a pretence which has led to huge quantities of bad academic writing, characterised by bogus theorising, spurious specialisation and the development of pseudo-technical vocabularies. Wittgenstein would have looked upon these developments and wept.”
Dr. Caroline Edwards describes the origins, motivations, and strategies of the Open Library of Humanities:
“This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities.”
Humanities and the Sciences 