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AWA: Science and Art: Worlds Apart? March 10 2008

Published on Mar 09, 2008 in Science > Natural

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AWA: Skeptical Sunday: You Sure About That?  March 31 2008

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AWA: Order and Chaos 
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AWA: Formula One: The Drake Equation  March 17 2008

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AWA: Science and Art: Worlds Apart?  March 10 2008

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AWA: The Early Bird Gets the Wormhole  March 3 2008

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AWA: The End of Food  February 25 2008

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AWA: Driving Evolution  February 18 2008

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AWA: Senses Census  February 11 2008

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Leonardo da Vinci is considered a genius for combining art and science. But how usual is this for us mere mortals? Can science and art sucessfully inform each other?We'll hear how the insights of French writer Marcel Proust anticipated modern neuroscience. Also, a debate over the evolutionary function of art. Does it have survival value? We meet a robot whose painting talents have garnered it a job in one of America's top museums. And, hear - or don't hear - why some of our relatives don't monkey around with music.Guests: Jonah Lehrer - science journalist, editor-at-large, Seed magazine and author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist David Sloan Wilson - evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University, and author of Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives Ellen Dissanayake - independent scholar and author of Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began Leonel Moura - conceptual artist Find out more about RAP, including a picture, at the American Museum of Natural History website!Whip up some madeleines (click here for a recipe) and savor your own remembrance of things past. Less

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