http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/ Scientific illustrations, art, photography en-gb Copyright 2009, Science Centric contact@sciencecentric.com (Stanislav Abadjiev) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:26:00 GMT Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:26:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.sciencecentric.com/images/sc_logo_news.jpg http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/ The National Museum of Natural History, Sofia will participate for a second year in the initiative 'Researchers' Night'. The doors will be open from 17:00 to 20:00 on Friday, 25 September. The museum will offer guided tours to its visitors... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09091502-the-national-museum-natural-history-sofia-will-participate-the-researchers-night http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09091502-the-national-museum-natural-history-sofia-will-participate-the-researchers-night Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:26:00 GMT Thanks to funding from The Leverhulme Trust, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Leicester is to work with an Argentinian artist, Mariano Molina as artist in residence... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09091501-how-do-we-perceive-art http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09091501-how-do-we-perceive-art Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:06:00 GMT The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Education has launched a new summer program designed to teach ballroom dancing to inner city teens in the Birmingham area. The program is called 'Dance 4 Health.' As part of the program, more than 50 teens selected from the A.G. Gaston Boys and Girls Club are receiving ballroom dance instruction this summer three times a week for six weeks... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09061601-dance-4-health-program-teaches-local-teens-ballroom-dancing http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09061601-dance-4-health-program-teaches-local-teens-ballroom-dancing Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:01:00 GMT He's at it again. After setting the world on fire with his groundbreaking research that deconstructed the opening chord to The Beatles' A Hard Days Night, Jason Brown is now out to apply mathematical principles to determine what makes the blues... well, the blues... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052601-singin-the-mathematical-equation-blues http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052601-singin-the-mathematical-equation-blues Tue, 26 May 2009 13:15:00 GMT CSIRO is looking for people to participate in a national online survey of Australian lifestyles and consumption habits. Do you prefer Chinese takeaway or home-cooked meals? How many hours do you spend watching TV? And do you walk to work or drive?... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052103-help-csiro-research-australian-lifestyle-choices http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052103-help-csiro-research-australian-lifestyle-choices Thu, 21 May 2009 10:14:00 GMT Melitaea trivia ([Denis and Schiffermueller], 1775). Widespread butterfly in South Europe, Turkey, Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, South Russia, Kazakhstan, North Pakistan and North India. In Bulgaria widely distributed; in mountains up to 1700 m... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052102-melitaea-trivia http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052102-melitaea-trivia Thu, 21 May 2009 08:10:00 GMT Heteropterus morpheus (Pallas, 1771). The range of this Hesperiidae species includes North Spain, much of Central Europe, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania, Balkans, North-West Turkey, Central Asia, Amur, Korea. Extremely rare in North and South-East Bulgaria... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052101-heteropterus-morpheus http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052101-heteropterus-morpheus Thu, 21 May 2009 08:10:00 GMT Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Sinatra and Hendrix - these and many other of the world's most famous musicians have had 'perfect' or 'absolute' pitch. The ability, defined as recognising the pitch of a musical note without having to compare it to any reference note, is quite rare in the U.S. and Europe, where only about one person in 10,000 is thought to have it. Often lumped into the mysterious realm of Talent, perfect pitch is - according to Diana Deutsch of the University of California, San Diego - probably more the result of nurture than nature, more environment than genes... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052001-tone-language-is-key-perfect-pitch http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09052001-tone-language-is-key-perfect-pitch Wed, 20 May 2009 17:01:00 GMT Whether on the trail, at the gym, or even on the front-porch steps, what happens inside your ankle in the milliseconds following a single misstep could sentence you to a lifetime of ankle trouble. And it's not just the ligaments left with lasting damage, finds Brigham Young University researcher Ty Hopkins and collaborators from the University of Michigan. Their new study points to a leg muscle whose speed and quality of protective response is permanently compromised after a sprain... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09051401-sprained-ankle-rehab-complicated-by-delayed-muscle-response http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09051401-sprained-ankle-rehab-complicated-by-delayed-muscle-response Thu, 14 May 2009 08:11:00 GMT The arts and humanities have enjoyed a long, rewarding courtship with science and technology for decades at the University of Illinois. With the creation of the edream Institute at Illinois this month, the marriage becomes official. The new enterprise - known formally as the Emerging Digital Research and Arts Media Institute - 'leverages our strengths in artistic performance, computing and engineering,' said edream director Donna Cox... http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09041101-new-institute-combines-emerging-digital-research-arts-media http://www.sciencecentric.com/art_style/article.php?q=09041101-new-institute-combines-emerging-digital-research-arts-media Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:50:00 GMT