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The three professions of medicine, technology, and art have all worked together in order to create many opportunities for people and our health. As a baseball player, this clash is very evident in Tommy John Surgery. The surgery is replacing and reconstructing the UCL joint in the elbow, usually of pitchers from constant throwing with a lot of torque. This surgery has become much more common recently in baseball and younger ages are becoming more and more common to receive this surgery. As I become more and more known about this surgery, i see that medicine, technology, and art are all evident in this particular surgery. First one must get an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) to view the small ligaments and tendons within the body, in this case the persons arm. Once the MRI results come back to the doctor, the doctor can go on to execute the surgery to repair the UCL in the elbow. I believe this is an example for this blog because the surgery is an art that is performed by the doctor wh...

For event #1 I attended Linda Weintraub's open workshop on Wednesday April 19th. The workshop that Mrs. Weintraub had for us was very interesting and fun to be apart of. She first sat us down in the hallway and had us participate in an activity where she asked us to think of how much of the day we spent without using man made materials and we were stunned when we gave our answers and found that we all roughly only spend about 2-5% of our days in natural parts of the earth, such as the park or the forest or things similar to this. She explained to us that is amazing how the technological advancements we have made have changed the way we live our lives due to the amount of activity we have with our smartphones and tablets inside our houses. This then lead to the true workshop activity that took place inside the room, where she had boxed up and laid out materials that may be found in a forest, such as moss, bones, sticks, rocks, and various natural materials that she hand picked from ...

It has been interesting and appealing to see the advancement art have made while our technology has been improving all the time around us. Similar to ideas such as robots, we have seen art and technology clash together to create things that are pieces of both. Industrialization was the first sign of technological ideas being formed and took a step forward. Industrialization, or the change from economic to society dominant, can at a time when society allowed more use of technology and its advancements to be used. Two common known machines that were made during the industrialization period were the cotton gin and steam engine. With the steam engine creating steam to operate machines instead of the necessity of hand work and the cotton gin making it much quicker and easier to separate cotton, we are able to see the advances that technology is making around us in ours societies. These may not directly be robots, but we see the resemblance in them and how they are created with advancing t...

Math has had an major impact on the way that art and science have evolved. Math and art, as explained in Edwin Abbot's reading, Flatland, both us perspective when they are being used or made. In math, the way you approach a problem to be able to solve it depends on the way you look at it and the perspective you have when first going over it. In art, it is an obvious technique that is used for almost all types of artwork. When one person looks at a piece of art, that one persons perceptive on what he or she sees may be completely different from what the next person sees, so they may view the piece of art completely different. One particular artist that uses this idea of perspective is Vincent Van Gogh. In his famous painting, Starry Night, people have different ideas as to what it is symbolizing when they first view it. Some may assume it is a picture from memory of his that may be near and dear to him, but it truly is a picture of an accurate view from his room he was in at the ...

In our everyday lives, we see the clashing differences between science and art. C.P. Snow points out that there are two different types of thoughts, those who believe in science thinking in which there is one direct answer and you don't have to be creative with your thoughts. On the other hand, you have intellectual thinkers that are creative with their thoughts and think "outside the box" and don't rely on one answer being the only answer that is found using formulas. The two different types of views are what created "two cultures". These two cultures are in our everyday lives due to the division of North and South campus classes. North Campus consist of Art and thinkers that have a imaginative mind, where South campus has the scientific classes and major consisting of formula thinkers. This division of majors on different sides of the campus has created two cultures in our lives. Although there is a division of cultures with the science and arts, we h...