Subscription Center
July 20, 2012
| 
4
Video of the Week #52 July 20th, 2012:
From: Introduction to NanoLab by Christina Agapakis at Oscillator.
Source: megamayd on Vimeo.
This week’s video comes from Megan Daalder, an instructor at UCLA’s Art/Science Nanolab. Nanolab is a two-week program for high school students at the intersection of art and science. Daalder’s video tells the story about how one of her art projects morphed into an investigation into the psychology and neuroscience of empathy.
About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz.
4 Comments
Add a Comment
You must sign in or register as a ScientificAmerican.com member to submit a comment.
Click one of the buttons below to register using an existing Social Account.
What Rational Really Means
Is It Quantum Computing or Not?
Bush-crow diaries: Settling in with the Borana
Is Homosexuality Natural? Yes. So is male lactation.
Why Barns Are Red, and More - The Countdown, Episode 22 
Bora's Picks (May 17th, 2013)
See what we're tweeting about
lggreenemeier UAV drone use in the US is imminent, how should lawmakers respond? Observations, Scientific American Blog http://t.co/zFiymcXXkL via @sciam
mdichristina MT @carolynporco: Big news: Bright flash on the Moon from a meteor strike at 56000 mph. http://t.co/2vqRK3w7QT #FlashOnTheMoon
docfreeride Warms my heart to read @SallyStrange in the trenches, patiently explaining privilege in terms of differing Bayesian prior probabilities.
YES! Send me a free issue of Scientific American with no obligation to continue the subscription. If I like it, I will be billed for the one-year subscription.
Share
Email
Print
suggest this as part of “therapeutic” activity to divorce-prone couples
Link to thisWhen we allow someone to look closely into our eyes, aren’t we exposing our innermost thoughts and emotions to another person, leaving us more vulnerable to their potential manipulation?
In areas of increased population density, which includes most cities around the world, don’t people increasingly purposely isolate themselves from the crowds of strangers that they are most often in contact with through the use of reading material and personal electronic devices, for example?
As I understand, urban Europeans often take offense at anyone who looks at them too closely for too long. Certainly in Japan there is very little communication with others on the crowded streets.
Don’t we all learn growing up in a crowded world populated by self-interested strangers that failure to defend our inner selves from others can lead to personal insult and injury?
Conversely, haven’t psychiatric methods long been focused on exposing our inner selves to our self, enabling corrective self action? Perhaps the obsession with this new device is an extension of long established psychiatric self-examination.
It seems to me that the mirror box tricks the wearer’s mind into believing she is safe, looking only into her own eyes while exposing her inner self to another – and vice versa… Perhaps there is good reason for our public defense mechanisms – perhaps they are not just constraints to improved socialization among strangers.
Link to thisI wouldn’t be so quick to assume that east Asian tendency is simply cultural. It’s presumably about 50% genetic (like all human behavior is). Anyway, it’s an amazing idea… it’s great that people seem positively affected.
Link to thisWish they had projects such as Nanolab when I was at high school. http://buysteroidsuk.co/
Link to this