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 This week's topic was perhaps the most interesting to me. In the past weeks, we have learned about how the best artist are successful due to their creativity and ability to think outside of the box. When human's were still naive about the stars and solar system, and where earth was in relationship to the sun, creativity made possible the greatest discoveries. For example Nicolaus Copernicus, an astronomer in the early 1500's had to harness his outside of the box thinking to come up with a heliocentric model. This model set the sun in the middle of the solar system instead of the earth (see picture below).  It is the mysteriousness of space that is so very intriguing to me, and many people who have chosen to study the stars. Art is mystery, and there are so many photos and pictures that have yet to be drawn and captured that put people in awe of how large the universe is and how little humans know about it. Below is one of the most remarkable space photo's I have ever s...

 Response to Ethan  https://ethanflanagandesma9.blogspot.com/2022/05/week-8-nanotechnology-art.html#comments Hi Ethan, I liked how you clarified how small a nanometer is, because this is vital in understanding nanotechnology and how impressive it is. It is truly interesting how we are understanding colors of animals like the morph butterfly that have their UV shade because of their specific nanoparticles. The possibilities are endless when it comes to creation of new colors, as you said. Thank you for the blog I enjoyed reading it. 

 Nanotechnology is a very broad term relating to the harnessing of atoms (sometimes smaller) for engineering purposes. In Ray Kurzweil's Ted Talk he breaks down how nanotechnology of all all kinds have exponentially grown over the past few centuries and decades. Kurzweil brings up an example of how a whole building in the 1980's harnessed a much less powerful machine than what we can hold in our hands for a fraction of the price. He seems to think in another 25 years what we can fit into our pockets we can fit into a blood cell.  The scientists who work on these developments are also artists. In order to create the next big invention you have to have a creative mind while still being dedicated to the rules of biology and technology. The picture below is an artist who used nanotechnology to sculpt a human being on the head of a needle. As we all know a needle is so tiny nobody would have ever thought this possible twenty years ago. The possibilities of ...

 Response to Nick McLain  https://nickmclainblog.blogspot.com/2022/05/blog-6-nick-mclain.html Hello Nick, I enjoyed looking at your blog. I think the brain is a very fascinating thing when we look at how it does things habitually without us knowing. The brain is artistic in ways that we cannot understand, but through art we can better understand it! It is truly a beautiful thing when art can be the greatest teacher for understanding the anatomy of the brain. 

 Studying a topic such as neuroscience requires imagination, creativity, and intelligence (specifically in the early 20th century). Neuroscience is more than just the anatomy of the brain, it is consciousness of humanity in its whole. Consciousness is every thought, every feeling, and once understood people can really take control of their lives. Technology is developing so quickly that soon people will be able to scan their own brain in milliseconds, and be able to tell which parts of their brain activate when certain feelings are triggered. This is explained in the video below with Christopher deCharm's TED talk.  Christopher claims that this new technology can be used to treat chronic pain without any injections or medication, just knowledge. One must ask, how could this ever be done without outside medication or assistance? Will people pay money in the future for medical surgery to remove certain parts of their brain associated with their chronic pain? The opportunities ar...

 Jessica Irish's lecture was very informative and I would highly recommend, she discussed the very pressing issue of climate change, specifically through emissions. As Jessica mentioned, the most common way countries emit carbon is by the burning of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels include coal, natural gas, and petroleum. These fossil fuels are burned in order to create energy. Energy for cars, factories, and large scale machines across the world. Early on in human history, this was doable because the human population wasn't nearly big enough to damage the atmosphere like it has. As Jessica Irish said, "we were given this amazing planet, and it is up to us to create energy in a way that protects it". Planet earth is art, and art is understanding the best ways to protect and preserve the most beautiful processes. On a smaller scale, we can educate ourselves about the use of fossil fuels in our daily lives to be apart of the solution instead of the problem.  Things like ridi...

  Week 1 - https://feliciawdesma9.blogspot.com/2022/04/week-1-two-cultures.html?lr=1 Hello Felicia, I enjoyed reading your blog. I think you displayed the difference between North campus manors and South campus majors very well. Also, it was interesting to see how the stereotypes for North campus "smoking hot  smoking hot with a vibrant social life, but won’t be able to land a job after university", and South campus "the ugly nerd..... expected to achieve the pinnacle of success in their post-collegiate career". Week 2 - https://shyampateldesma9.blogspot.com/2022/04/week-2-math-art.html Hello Shyam! Thanks so much for sharing. Leonardo Divinci was such an influential figure that changed the world forever. He showed us how combining math and art as one in the same thing can yield some pretty powerful results. The best of it is we can learn all these discoveries for ourselves in just the press of a button in todays world. He applied himself and created things like t...

GMOs or genetically modified organisms, have been around since the 1990's. In this time period, produce like potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, and corn began to be sold at grocery stores (FDA). Genetically modifying plants through biotechnology is difficult to do which is why it was only discovered less than thirty years ago. However, once mastered, genes of these plants can be modified to increase the size of each crop (which increases yield), lower the cost of raising these crops, and even make the food taste better. There are cons that come with genetically modifying crops, they are unhealthy for humans to ingest, they can contaminate other crop fields, and are crossed so many times that the organic versions of these plants will be non existent in the future which can be very dangerous.  Health issues like toxicity and organ damage to human health are real concerns to people who consistently ingest GMO's. In the fast food world, a common modification is the extraction of a chemic...