The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in ARTS, Science, arts-based training on Oct 28th, 2009
New research shows musical training sharpens the ability to sense emotions.
Makes sense to me. Music, especially classical, conveys many subtle emotions. Music and other arts help us develop our sense perceptions. Our perceptions shape our perspective and vice versa.
According to Dana L. Strait and a team of researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, years of musical [...]
Posted in Science on Jun 23rd, 2009
This reminds me of the work of Dr. Linda Long, a biochemist and musician, who develops Molecular Music from plant and human protein molecules. She uses the results for therapeutic purposes and to increase understanding of science and the human body.
From Utne:
Using people’s brain waves as the notes, scientists have created music. The researchers from China [...]
Most people think of bacteria in terms of infections and disinfectants. Erich Schopf, a bacteriologist at the University of Vienna, thinks of colour, and actually paints with bacteria!
The fact that bacteria use pigments to protect themselves against UV radiation gave him the idea to use them as paint. He gathers his raw material from the ground, water [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, BOOKS WORTH READING, Events, Science on Sep 25th, 2008
Integral City Book Launch Nov 5, 2008
University Women’s Club
7:00 pm– 9:30 pm
Hycroft 1489 McRae Ave.
Vancouver BC (Granville & 16 Ave.)
Limited Seating. Register by Oct. 30.
Register: Tel: 604 731-4661 or
Email: uwcv@uwcvancouver.ca
Cost: By Donation at the Door
My friend and colleague Marilyn Hamilton has written an important soon-to-be-published new book. Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive, offers us a brilliant [...]
Posted in Artful Leadership, Creativity and Innovation, Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home, Science on Jun 30th, 2008
Summer Reading
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
By Jonah Lehrer
If you are a scientist you could choose to get nitpicky about whether or not Proust was a neuroscientist, or you could sit back, relax and enjoy the ride as Lehrer weaves together stories about art, science and creative breakthroughs. Lehrer argues that when it comes to discoveries of the [...]
From USA TODAY
“The lights dimmed, the sold-out hall grew hushed and out walked the conductor — shiny, white and 4 feet, 3 inches tall.
ASIMO, a robot designed by Honda Motor Co., met its latest challenge Tuesday evening: Conducting the Detroit Symphony in a performance of The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha… ASIMO’s engineers [...]
Posted in Science on Apr 30th, 2008
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory ? the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it. This type of memory is [...]
Images from Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art
ARTISTIC LIMITATIONS
Cataracts forced Mary Cassatt to stop working years before her death in 1926. She painted “Young Mother Sewing” in 1900. More Photos >
For Claude Monet, 1912-22 was a watershed decade. He was perhaps the most successful artist of his time, and his genius had already assured him a [...]
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