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For my first extra credit event, I attended "Thinking Atoms" through Zoom. We started off thinking and talking about the complexity of atoms. It was interesting to hear from a professor in the chemistry department at UCLA to give their take on how we can think and explore atoms and nanotechnology (which was our topic last week, so it was nice to get more information!).  (Space.com) One speaker discussed a design to build a new atomic force microscope to show atomic resolution and silicone. Coming to some difficulties with building this microscope, the solution that they found together was to vibrate the tip to make it more stable to bond as they measured gravity waves. For a microscope to be able to see atoms, many people would argue that there is no possible way for this to happen, but knowing they were able to achieve seeing atoms through a microscope is fascinating to many viewers.  Uncovering different techniques to see atoms created a new perspective and way for scientis...

I attended a Zoom event about space and art and thought the relationship between the two was very fascinating. I have always thought about space art with so many different attributes of the two intertwining together. Using space as an experimental territory, Coded Utopia, the Makrolab project with many different interior and exterior designs to make space, an art form. Discussing and using sculptures, art, and performance through the media allowed the people in collaboration with this project to evolve and display in museums. The performances that included theatrical gravity were the most fascinating to do outside research on.  (Coded Utopia) Looking at the different works from Leonardo's Space Art, the concept of a graphic design used two race cars for photography to produce in a museum. Over the years, the artist has found new ways to make approaches to their art with modernized technology. Hearing and reading through the different possibilities of what artists and scientists hav...