Posts Tagged ‘Life’

“Still Life: The Art of Anatomy,” Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, Through September 12

Posted on August 20th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

I just found out about an excellent looking exhibition now on in Dunedin, New Zealand; the exhibition is called “Still Life: The Art of Anatomy,” and it frames a variety of historical and contemporary anatomical teaching tools held in public and private hands–including models and illustrations–as artworks in a fine art setting.

Images of the exhibition above and full details below; if you are based in New Zealand, be sure to check this out!

Still Life: The Art of Anatomy
Saturday, 10 July 2010 – 12 September 2010
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Dunedin, New Zealand

Noted Dunedin based filmmaker and medical doctor Paul Trotman, has worked closely with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in researching Dunedin’s rich collections towards the realization of Still Life: The Art of Anatomy. This exhibition brings together an array of historical and contemporary items, such as Dr John Halliday Scott’s elegant anatomical drawings and old master prints, through to porcelain and wax casts of aspects of the body and the latest interactive computer generated 3D anatomical models. Still Life provides a stunning insight into this complex subject and also reveals the important lineage that science and art shares through the analysis, distillation and depiction of the human form.

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zombies for life we are !!

Posted on July 7th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

zombies for life we are !!

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World Science Festival 2010 report: The Search for Life in the Universe

Posted on June 4th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Photo by Robert Leslie Last night at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse moderated a discussion centered around the age-old question: Are we alone? Four scientists, including 2009 TED Prize winner Jill Tarter, shared…

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Think life is good now? Wait until you turn 70

Posted on May 17th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

A study out this week in PNAS asked US participants to rate variables in their lives such as “stress,” “worry,” and “happiness” and used the responses to estimate their well-being. The resulting graph of well-being against age takes the shape of a U. In both males and females, overall life satisfaction seems to trend downward until a person’s early fifties, when it curves up again.

The study was conducted by phone and collected over 300,000 data samples that were socioeconomically representative of the country as a whole. Scientists asked participants to rank their lives on various scales, including positive variables like “happiness” and “enjoyment” as well as worry, stress, and sadness.

The graphs of the various parameters took on some interesting shapes: enjoyment and happiness were also U-shaped, both bottoming out in the early fifties. Stress and worry had sharp increases between the 18-21 and 22-25 age brackets. Stress declined as age increased, with the drop-off sharpening around the mid-fifties. Worry remained flat until the late forties, when it began a slow decline. Researchers floated the possibility that the graph turns were related to children—in particular, a finally empty nest can contribute to the decline in stress.

Anger plateaued for those in their thirties, but declined with age. Sadness was the flattest of the graphs (sadness and happiness were not dependent on each other in this study). Participants indicated a small increase in sadness from mid-thirties to early fifties before becoming happy again.

Interestingly, women overall exhibited a greater sense of well-being than men, despite reporting the same amount of happiness and less enjoyment. While the two groups didn’t always report the same levels of a variable, their peaks and valleys tracked each other over time.

Overall, researchers found that people from their mid-sixties and older rated their lives as being just as good as those in the youngest age bracket, 18-21, and those positive ratings increased with age. They note it’s possible to attribute this rise to many factors, from “increasing wisdom” to the “positivity effect,” wherein old people recall fewer negative memories than positive ones. Still, the general U-shape of well-being is something to look forward to, or dread, depending on which part of it you’re in.

PNAS, 2010. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003744107  (About DOIs).

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iPads and Family Life

Posted on May 8th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Interesting read: What iPads Did To My Family, by Chuck Hollis
(thank you kevin)

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