Archive for 2012
an underdog theory
You’ve probably heard of string theory, standard quantum mechanics, and general relativity. But pilot wave? No, never heard of that. The reason why goes back to the theory’s history.
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Bloom
Todd McDonald, associate professor of art, is a painter who finds extraordinary visual ideas in ordinary settings.
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Ribbon of light
John Ballato’s lab in COMSET created this ribbon of polypropylene film with light-emitting nanoparticles carefully dispersed within to maintain clarity and supply a brilliant green.
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Drive Time
Jillian Weise gets some of her best ideas when she’s driving her car. No wonder her poetry and fiction cover so much ground.
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sacred places, shattered spaces
Fist-sized chunks of limestone and cracked brick. Crumbled masonry and leveled columns. Shattered buttresses and pots, toys, and tools.
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Forest by Nature
In much of the Southeast, the landscape’s native vocation is forest. But when European settlers arrived here, they did not find a forest primeval, wild and pristine.
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Rooms for getting better
“The Patient Room 2020 mock-up is very high tech, but it’s not about that,” Dina Battisto says. “It’s about restoring hope and comfort and control to patients and their families.”
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quantum heretic
In the warm winter sunshine, a distinguished man stands on the curb outside a local bank, wearing a casual jacket, his dark, curly hair stranded with silver.
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Genetics and the coat of many colors
The blue merle walks into the room, her long, luxurious coat following the geography of her body like contour lines on a hiking map. Everyone gazes at her, reaches to touch her, wants to be her friend.
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a gear head goes bio
His was not the usual path to a job fighting cancer. Stephen Foulger was a California dude, a surfer and gear head who built motorcycles.
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