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Week 7 Blog After studying the body, this week we learned all about the mind and how it works. We studied memory, consciousness, and overall whether machines are hindering our intelligence or helping it. Consciousness is a huge mystery and so we indulged in studying how artists process this field of neuroscience that is constantly expanding.  http://www.bbc.com/future/tags/neuroscience With the invention of the microscope and the discovery of electricity, we were able to research where the brain begins. Two very important researchers from this topic were Roman y Cajal and Franz Joseph Gall because they were critical in showing how the brain actually looks and works. Franz Joseph Gall believed the brain was physically developed according to its use and began the practice of phrenology which is the determination of an individual's potential by feeling bumps on the head. Ramon y Cajal pioneered the investigation of the microscopic structure of the brain and is considered the

Week 9 Blog      This week it was very interesting to see how all of our past units such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, math, and robotics come together with our current unit as we explore how they are all used in space. But, for me, the coolest relationship within this unit was between art and zero gravity in space. When it comes to the relationship between art and space, we are early on introduced to astronomer and mathematician, Nicolai Copernicus. He published an early depiction of his heliocentric model of the solar system in 1512, which for the first time scientifically, showed the sun in the middle of the solar system. http://astro.hopkinsschools.org/course_documents/history/copernicus_to_galileo/copernican.jpg      On may 22, 1993, a sculpture called the Cosmic Dancer was launched to the Russian Mir space station on a Progress rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This sculpture was the first three-dimensional artwork specifically conceived for a space h