May 2011
4 posts
Metaphortean Research
Artist Carl Diehl will be lecturing tonight at little berlin at 7pm. This will be the last lecture in VASST.info’s series of lectures.
“An official, if speculative, genealogy of Metaphortean Research to be presented at Little Berlin gallery in Philadelphia on Saturday May 28th. Arriving at the end of the current exhibit of Very Amateur Society of Science and Technology, this...
Art Science's Sake
Artists Angela McQuillan and April Aguillard’s science project for VASST.info. Read and listen to the full interview with Peter Crimmins and Carolyn Beeler on newsworks.org
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Ron Klein Lecture/CANCELLED
Terribly sorry folks, he’ll be in NYC.
VASST.info/lectures/Bioethics
VASST.info lecture series that asks scientists to lecture on a related topic to an artist’s science project. In this lecture Camille McQuillan gives a lecture on bioethics related to April Aguillard & Angela McQuillan’s study of zebrafish. (ran out of battery at the last ten minutes where we began the conversation of genetically manipulating human embryos…shoulda been...
April 2011
11 posts
Gravitational Pull
“The singularity and the stellar matter locked up in it are hidden by the holes horizon. However long you may wait, the locked up matter can never reemerge. The holes gravity prevents it. Nor can the locked up matter ever send you information, not by radio waves, or light, or X-rays. For all practical purposes, it is completely gone from our universe.”
-excerpt from Kip Thorne’s...
From Inside
“Actually, what you would see, given that you are able to withstand the tidal gravitational effects, would be that the entire universe being bent into a small cone in front of you looking away from the BH. Will have to find the exact reference for this, but it is in Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne.”
This is a quote taken from Chris Hardee from an on-line forum concerned with...
Electricity for Progress - VASST Science Faire →
Electricity for Progress presents, Apple Distortion - an introduction to feedback and operational amplifiers. In this experiment, users are presented with three apples, touching these apples in various ways and combinations produces audible feedback. The feedback is produced using an old lm709 operational amplifier integrated circuit and an assortment of capacitors (including the human...
Biodiversity Studies below 30th Street & Girard...
Final Report: April 17, 2011
Editor: Lisa Murch
Field Study #1 Rear Yard Philadelphia, PA 19130
Field Study #2 Under the bridge by the Railroad Tracks Philadelphia, PA 19130
Field Study #3 Over the bridge by the Railroad Tracks Philadelphia, PA 19130
Executive Summary
Less than 5% of the great shrub-steppe ecosystem that once dominated this neighborhood has escaped development to date, and...
Kant and Hypnosis: Not-So-Empirical Science.
Call it a foray into “transcendental science.” Hypnosis seems to me like an ideal laboratory for screwing around with certain ideas found in Kant’s The Critique of Pure Reason. With the eyes closed, the body immobile, and the mind in a hypersuggestible state, we are a bit more isolated from the empirical world; able to better see how we impose certain a priori concepts— like...
From One Cell to a Complex Organism
For our science fair project, we decided to make a video as a documentation of the embryonic development of wild type (non genetically altered) zebrafish, starting from a single cell. Zebrafish are commonly used in many types of scientific experiments as a model for studying vertebrate development and genetics. They help us to understand how all vertebrates, including humans, grow from a single...
Artificial photosynthesis
“From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Artificial photosynthesis is a research field that attempts to replicate the natural process of photosynthesis, converting sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen. Sometimes, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen by using sunlight energy is also referred to as artificial photosynthesis. The actual process that allows half...
Lensing Effect
Sculpting Light
check out this video.
“see… imagine a solar eclipse… is the moon absorbed by the sun….? no right? it just passes b/w earth n sun…. similarly , a blackhole just drifts inbetween the galaxy n the observer…. when doing so, it creates ripples in spacetime which wobble the light passing thru the edges of the blackhole(event horizon) which is...
BFFF
BFFF, Best Friend Facebook Forever. Starting today, April 1st and ending on April 30th, Dave Kim & James Weissinger embark on their experiment for VASST.info. It’s a social experiment where Dave Kim aka https://www.facebook.com/notdavekim has to fulfill every request bestowed upon him by his friends on facebook. Become a fan of this page: https://www.facebook.com/MyBFFF to learn more...
Anonymous asked: http://www.mjt.org/
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March 2011
9 posts
SOME LOCAL SCIENCE HAPPENINGS
PHILADELPHIA SCIENCE FESTIVAL
APRIL 15 - APRIL 28
For two weeks Philadelphia’s schools, universities, cultural institutions and research centers will come together as a single, united voice to put science in the spotlight.
CLICK HERE for the complete Calendar of Events.
Is it just me or is it really odd that this is happening at the same time as our Science Fair?
The History of...
Intersections between science and art
Artist-Scientist Jungian archetype
An extreme “duh” moment: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Sexy Science: Portrait of the artist as scientist
Science Museums use art to enhance the geological, biological and environmental.
Ernst Haeckel: Die Radiolarien (RHIZOPODA RADIARIA) Berlin, 1862
Someone else doing the same search
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Go, Science
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Artist David Salle and Psychiatrist Iain...
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sound in black holes
Everyday it seems someone points me towards research that describe black holes in an entirely new way, shattering my perception of them. Check out this Ted talk where the inside of black holes is described as having sound and light.
My Volcano
“Incomprehension and confusion are common reactions to the plays of Samuel Beckett. The effort of the audience to extract an overall meaning from the plot mostly fails. This is due to the fact that on the stage, all concepts on which we usually rely collapse; they lose their meaning. Among them are for instance “the belief in God, in the unity of the world, [and] in the knowability of...
According to the ‘bulgar alarm theory’, Pyrocystis fusiformis bioluminesces to attract attention to its predator. When attacked by a predator, P. fusiformis bioluminesces and illuminates itself as well as its predator. When its predator is illuminated, it greatly increases the chance that the predator itself will be preyed upon. This benefits the P. fusiformis species as a whole, because the...
February 2011
6 posts
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Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile
I want to read this play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso_at_the_Lapin_Agile
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The connection between art and science is that all...
I realize that I am not the first artist to be awestruck by the black hole phenomena but I cannot believe that it completely escaped my attention that an enormous sculpture by Miroslaw Balka had been on view just last year at, of all places, the Tate Modern.
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vasst asked: Where do all the questions go?
January 2011
5 posts
GREEN RIVER →
WatchFor Kristen
December 2010
1 post
Ferrofluid
I can’t believe this is something I can buy. I have often thought of using magnets with art, or at least for my Halloween costume. I remember learning about the basic properties of magnets in 4th grade with Mrs. Green. They didn’t seem that cool because when I thought of science at that time, I thought of it as truth and not for its potential.
November 2010
3 posts
Fantastic Troubles: This Is Real →
fantastictroubles:
Someone should do a sociological survey on the probability that someone will be on a reality show voluntarily, in relation to the degree of bullying they experienced at a formative age. I had my first experience being filmed for a reality show recently and noticed how impossible it is for anyone…
Dark Matter
Here is a link to an article I was told about today when I mentioned that for the Science Fair, my project would deal with creating a simulation of a black hole, actually what it is like to be inside one. I can’t wait to find out what that’s going to be like. This article is about dark matter, and has nothing directly to do with black holes. I must have been told about it because...
October 2010
1 post
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Gliese 581g
There’s life out there, duh. Below is listed one of my favorite articles I have read about the new earth-like planet discovery, Gliese 581g. Gliese 581g is located in the Libra constellation. Even though it is October, the month of Libra, this constellation is best viewed during the evening in the month of June. Apparently January through May too, but in the morning. Below I have a...
September 2010
2 posts
Harvest Moon
“Sept. 22, 2010: For the first time in almost 20 years, northern autumn is beginning on the night of a full Moon. The coincidence sets the stage for a “Super Harvest Moon” and a must-see sky show to mark the change of seasons.
The action begins at sunset on Sept 22nd, the last day of northern summer. As the sun sinks in the west, bringing the season to a close, the full...
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Light Life Ring Ice Experiment
Recording apparent affects on the melting of ice in proximity to a light life ring.
Light Life Rings are simple coils of copper. The copper is cut at specific lengths, twisted, and joined into a ring. (The little beads/balls are just there for fun.) Specific lengths of copper and ratios of those lengths interact with electromagnetism, producing effects which can be observed at our ‘human’...
August 2010
2 posts
How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved the... →
toldorknown:
Natural gas—the kind that heats ovens and boils water—specifically methane, is the culprit behind the mysterious disappearances and loss of water and air craft. The evidence for this astounding new insight into a mystery that’s bedeviled the world is laid out in a research paper published in the American Journal of Physics.
(via Neatorama)
C.A.R.E. →
At little berlin, September 20th, 2009
July 2010
5 posts
WatchIsabella Rossellini in a sea of paper penises. At least SOMEONE’s thinking about the children. Click here for all three seasons.
-Jong Kyu
growth and development
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that most life on earth starts off from one single cell. Once upon a time we were all just tiny embryos, and somehow we all grew into large complex organisms. Right now I am doing some research on embryo development. Since I don’t have access to human embryos (and probably wouldn’t want to) I decided to focus on fish instead, more...
June 2010
1 post
Lava Lamps with Science Bob
Recently at Little Berlin for our group exhibit, “Forecast”, I have re-created this simple science experiment, which illustrates density in liquid form while also displaying oil and water’s intermolecular polarity.
Below is a description of intermolecular forces via science.uwaterloo.ca “The forces holding molecules together are generally called intermolecular forces. The...