The Workshop of Science Kushin Mukherjee I like to spend my moments of leisure practicing drawing. During my non-leisure hours, I’m a cognitive scientist in training, so my job is to think about thinking. Among the myriad questions about the human mind one could pursue, what I choose to think …
My name is Aedan Gardill and I’m a physics graduate student at the UW, as well as an artist! I am very excited to join the Kohler fellowship as one of the art fellows to use both my science and art backgrounds! For the past 5 years I’ve been making …
In November 1886, an essay by the director of the Lick Observatory, Edward S. Holden, appeared in Overland Monthly magazine. Holden, an astronomer and professor of mathematics (and former employee at the Washburn Observatory at UW Madison) devoted significant column space to the experimental promise of photography in the discipline of “physical” astronomy, soon …
When I was small, there were zombies in the basement. The light switch was at the bottom of the stairs which meant that, when coming upstairs, one had to flick the switch before climbing. Without fail, flicking that switch set my heart racing and legs bounding up the stairs …
Imagine living in a world where you did not have access to artificial colors – the color wheel, paints, computer screens, and so on. Imagine living, say, in ancient Greece. Would you use such words as “blue” or “green?” As it turns out, the ancient Greeks do not seem to …
