Image: R. Hurt – Caltech/JPL By Dr. Lee Turnpenny / 02.11.2016 Can a scientist ever be a great artist? Surely one must answer ‘yes’. It comes down to the adjectiving of the word ‘great’, and ones understanding of ‘scientist’ and ‘artist’. After entering University later than most at the age of 31, I recall being[…]
Tommy Wiseau clutches a football in ‘The Room,’ the 2003 film he wrote, produced and starred in. Wiseau Films By John Dyck / 01.16.2018 PhD Student in Philosophy The Graduate Center City University of New York “The Disaster Artist” – which just earned James Franco a Golden Globe for his portrayal of director Tommy Wiseau –[…]
The image shows the locus coeruleus, which drives neuronal circuits of the hippocampus and enables novel contextual memory. The red staining shows norepinephrine transporter (NET)-positive cells, indicating the locus coeruleus. The green staining shows adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated expressions of light-sensitive inhibitory opsin, archaerhodopsin (Arch). The blue staining shows all cells in the brain stem. / Akiko[…]
All too much; Ikea shoppers overwhelmed in the showroom, 6 July 2014, Beijing, China. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty By Dr. Rebecca Keogh / 12.18.2017 Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience University of New South Wales Imagine you are at Ikea to pick up a sofa for your new flat. You see one you like, a wine-coloured two-seater[…]
NASA By Paul Gilster / 04.08.2016 The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless, if we don’t destroy ourselves first. The same would be true of intelligent aliens elsewhere in the Universe, assuming they exist: how far they travel depends strongly on how long they survive as a species. That survival variable,[…]
The Changing Character of Immigration By Kate Holladay Claghorn Photo of Claghorn in 1912 Text and images from The World’s Work: Scribners monthly, an illustrated magazine for the people, volume 1(Scribner & Son, New York, 1900-01) Nearly half a million immigrants came to our shores during the year that ended June 30, 1900, the statistics of which[…]