The Intravenous Muse

Juan Villoro In 1946, automotive engineer Louis Réard presented an invention capable of stopping traffic: the bikini. The two-piece garment was named after the atoll where the first atomic bombs exploded. Twenty years later, the explosive garment was appearing on magazine covers, fashion runways, movies, …

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Suicide Prevention, Quantum Technology, Fatherhood Shrinks Brain, Metaverse…

Here are some fascinating science pieces enlightening Sepgra’s readership’s curious mind. Using Technology to Predict Suicide Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work Exploring Quantum Weirdness https://www.science.org/content/article/nobel-honors-physicists-proved-quantum-weirdness-cant-explained-away-can-used Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/09/28/becoming-a-father-shrinks-your-cerebrum What is the metaverse—and what does it …

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Intuition and Humanity in Design

Studio Fenice Writer: Rosanna Robertson “I realized that there was something missing – people were tired of the white-walled galleries, they were looking for more human ways to look at art and design,” notes Bettina Kiehnle, the Founder of Studio IMA. Established in contrast to the …

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Infinite Patterns

Cristóbal Vila Connecting geometry, nature, and architecture This is a new personal project that seeks to establish connections between various fields that interest me deeply: geometry, and how it appears linked to nature, on the one hand, and to art and architecture, on the other; …

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First Images from the Webb Space Telescope.

Scientists have waited for a generation to see the stunning images that the James Webb Telescope is now delivering. In a live online Q+A, Brian Greene will speak with Nobel Prize-winner John Mather and other key project scientists about the telescope’s first full-color images, looking …

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