DISCLAIMER: As of May 21st, 2020 current public health directives prohibit gatherings of any size and driving to public outdoor spaces. Many parks and beaches across California are temporarily closed or have very limited access to protect us from the COVID-19 Pandemic. In the mean time, we can observe the critters that grace our daily walks. For the most update […]
Any good artist knows that in order to have a beautiful picture you must have the right medium to translate it properly. When painting an ocean you don’t want to use the same shade of blue, so you add variety of colors to represent shadows and highlights. The same concept applies to photography, except time and light are your shadows […]
Author: Kat Feng Tea Talk Tuesday is a platform for graduate students at UCSC to come together and listen to each other speak about their research in STEM and related fields. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More and more, another term has been on the rise: STEAM. That is STEM plus Art. At Scientific Slug, we have […]
Recently, TEDxSantaCruz took place. I didn’t get to go, but I loved the theme: Radical Collaboration. It made me think of those videos that feature unlikely friendships between, say, a tiger and a monkey. But really, it was about innovative approaches to problems and ideas across disciplines and boundaries. This Tea Talk featured the wonder that arises when music meets […]
Some of the products of the merging of the left brain and the right brain in a summer UCSC Science Illustration course with a graduate from the Science Illustration Certificate Program at California State University at Monterey Bay, Lucy Conklin – A somewhat artistic interpretation of science, one by which you force yourself to look close enough at the seemingly […]