Making Chemistry a White Art

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Doing science making art

It is a challenge to balance doing both science and art, but I attempt both because each provides unique insight into perception and cognition, often to mutual benefit. The techniques I use in visual neuroscience (psychophysics, fMRI, microelectrode recording) are different from those I use in visual art (etching, watercolor and oil paint, glass and silk), but the process is always empirical, t...

ersatz – a Software Platform for Making Art

The developments of digital technology provide opportunities for artists to radically rethink the notion of mediums as entities that are containers to be filled with the content of their artwork. Digital technologies provide the capability for artists to create their own functional mediums along with a particular artwork. However, this technological creativity can create daunting development ta...

Chemistry publication – making the revolution

The advent of the Internet has been the impetus for the Open Access movement, a movement focused on expanding access to information principally by reducing the costs of journals. I argue here that the Open Access movement has had little impact on the chemistry community and has taken our attention away from the real opportunity to revolutionize scientific communication. I propose a plan that bo...

Soap: Making Everyday Chemistry Public

This grime is hard to wash off with water, simply because water molecules are more attracted to one another than they are to oil. Oil and water don't mix; thus, they separate into two. We have been taught this since elementary school, with lots of demonstrations. Oil molecules are large and awkward; they are not polar, so water, a very polar molecule, can’t bond with it. This is why when you ha...