Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Spliced feed for The Science Network

Spliced feed for The Science Network

Mathematical Art [SciScoop Science Blog]

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One of the newer art forms that I have come to enjoy for about two years is fractals.  Now a lot of you probably know fractals as "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole" But to me, as an artist, fractals are in essence, putative abstract artworks, designed mathematically on a computer, that can form irregular geometric shapes and patterns.  The icon for our Sci-art category here at SciScoop is one of my fractals, surrounded by portions of various parts of scientific formulas such as the one for calculating the curvature of a wormhole.

Online Creative Gender Bias [SciScoop Science Blog]

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US researchers have found that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women despite the fact that women and men engage in creative activities at about the same rates.

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