This post aggregates links around some of the ideas and issues that have been discussed in class the past few weeks as well as some articles the intersections between science and other disciplines.
Art and Science
- Art21: “Ecology” episode (originally aired November 1, 2007) – How is our understanding of the natural world deeply cultural? The “Art in the Twenty-First Century” documentary “Ecology” explores these questions in the work of the artists Robert Adams, Mark Dion, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. Video description from Art21 site.
- Slate: “A Q&A with Kate Nichols, artist-in-residence at a nanoscience laboratory” by Emily Tamkin (September 20, 2016)
- Artforum: “NASA to Collobarate with Artist to Document Climate Change” (September 17, 2016)
- Artforum: “Pedro Reyes Named MIT’s Inaugural Dasha Zhukova Distinguished Visiting Artist” (September 14, 2016)
Science & other industries and disciplines
- Los Angeles Review of Books: “Does Science Need Hollywood?” by David Kordahl (December 24, 2015)
- The Brooklyn Rail: “Deconstructing the Philosophical Resistance to Biology | The Brooklyn Rail” by Catherine Malabou (September 1, 2016)
- Scientific American Blog Network: “Telling science stories…wait, what’s a ‘story’?” by Bora Zivkovic (July 13, 2011)
Critical Thinking, Intelligence, and the Nature of Knowledge
- NYT Review: “The Difference Between Rationality and Intelligence” by David Z. Hambrick and Alexander P. Burgoyne (Sept. 16, 2016)
- Lifehacker: “How to Train your Mind to Think Critically and Form Your Own Opinions” by Thorin Klosowski (February 6, 2014)
- Los Angeles Review of Books: “Rethinking Knowledge in the Internet Age” by David Weinberger (May 2, 2016)
- Los Angeles Review of Books: “Cloudy with a Chance of Dystopia: Tung-Hui Hu’s ‘A Prehistory of the Cloud'” by Kevin Driscoll (August 14, 2016)
- Lifehacker: “This Graphic Reveals 10 Cognitive Biases That Shape Our Thinking, With Examples” by Alan Henry (April 18, 2016)
