Science
Murals to Teach
I love how this science teacher used murals to teach his students science. Although he’s retiring after 37 years of teaching at San Luis Obispo High School in California, the murals he painted will still line the hallways for his students to continually view. Here’s another example of artistic teaching methods. Dr. Andrew Yang teaches science at The Art Institute of Chicago and incorporates aspect of biology and art in his teaching. This is an interesting type of art called “bioartography” or cell art. These are mouse stem-cell neurons and a section of a mouse’s stomach by scientific artist, Deb Gumico, from the Michigan Center for Organogenesis. She and her…
Maps & Cosmos
Continuing with the art in science theme there are some artistic and “far-out” pictures to view at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Maps: Finding our Place in the World has already passed, however the pictures can be viewed at this link and Mapping the Cosmos is ongoing through July 27th (seen below). [There are two other exhibits here that look very appealing — Artwork of Sonya Clark, especially her bead work (7/1 – 9/7) and The Special Dead, A Medieval Reliquary Revealed (8/2 – 1/18).] What’s even more cool, however, is that Hubble has it’s own wall mural site, where their images can be downloaded as wall art. Since…
Scientific “flow”
Advances in science can help art, as discussed in the last post, and art can be seen in science, as viewed in these pictures of microscopic movement of fluid studied by Melissa Green of Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The first set of pictures show turbulence. The first image shows movement looking down a channel and the second image shows movement looking from the side of a channel. This final picture shows an example of vortex — in trying to determine where it starts and ends by following particle trajectories in a contour parameter plot. These pictures would make cool wall art in and of themselves.
