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Earlier this quarter, I took a trip to New York City and visited the American Museum of Natural History. In particular, I will focus this blog post on the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs. From what I could tell, the layout of this Museum was somewhat similar to the design of the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. This Museum in New York, however, was a lot larger and included more Dinosaur fossils. As a child, I always gravitated towards the dinosaur fossils when visiting the Museum. Even at 21 years old, I saw myself following the same impulse, and I found myself in front of the Tyrannosaurus rex.              When thinking about the process of retrieving fossils and displaying them, it was hard for me to find the connection to technology, art, and science. I knew that a paleontologist is a scientist who studied fossils, but other than that it was tough making the connection. All of the information that I have receiv...

Entrance to World of Life Exhibit Different Examples of Brains  This past week I had the pleasure to visit the California Science Center in Los Angeles, CA. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, I have visited this museum many times on school field trips. However, this visit was a bit different. I was not going with an open mind ready to explore, but rather with prior knowledge on the exhibits prepared to learn the relation between science and art. While the California Science Center has many exhibits, I will be focusing this blog post on the  World of Life  exhibit. In this exhibit, we “examine how people, plants, animals and the tiniest living cells all perform the same life processes to survive.”  Interactive Nerve Display Entering this exhibit almost felt as if you were walking into the human body. The lessons from units four, five, and six were present in this section of the museum. There was an interactive display of how nerves interact with...

This week we learned about the influence that space has on art. The portion of the lecture that interested me the most was the part of the Sudbury Buckyballs. These ‘buckyballs” shows us how organisms operate at the nano level in space. To understand the impact that these organisms from space influence art, I will not be using art in its traditional understanding. I am not referring to art in the form of painting, sculptures, or digital media. I will be talking about the creation/evolution of life on Earth as art in itself. To see all of these complex creatures emerge from nothing is art given to us by the natural order of the universe. These extraterrestrial particles came to Earth nearly 2 billion years ago by way of meteor and asteroid impacts.  Elements that we once thought to be native to Earth are now discovered to have origins somewhere out in space. Even in contemporary accounts for evolution credit the Earth as being the source of single-cell organisms. We credit the ...