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Why Older Adults Become Fraud Victims More Often

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2012Scienceanterior insula, brain, brain mechanism, brain scan, dishonest, early warning, elizabeth castle, face, financial exploitation, financial scam, financial swindles, fmri, fraud, functional, ian boggero, imaging, magnetic, mark grinblatt, money, naomi eisenberger, older people, photograph, region, resonance, shelley e taylor, signal, ucla study, untrustworthy face, victim, vulnerable

Brain shows diminished response to untrustworthiness, UCLA scientists report

Why are older people especially vulnerable to becoming victims of fraud? A new UCLA study indicates that an important clue may lie in a particular region of the brain that influences the ability to discern who is honest and who is trying to deceive us.

Older people, more than younger adults, may fail to interpret an untrustworthy face as potentially dishonest, the study shows. The reason for this, the UCLA life scientists found, seems to be that a brain region called the anterior insula, which is linked to disgust and is important for discerning untrustworthy faces, is less active in older adults. (more…)

Saving Storm-Damaged Photos

By Guest PostNovember 10, 2012General, Science, Technologyart conservation, cellulose acetate, debra hess norris, film negative, heather brown, humidity condition, hurricane sandy, marsh grass, msnbc, news clip, photo album, photograph, photos, phyllis, save my photograph, saving, staten island, storm damaged, superstorm, von stein, wedding gown

UD conservators triage to provide advice, resources

In a news clip on MSNBC, Phyllis, a 62-year-old grandmother from Staten Island, clutches a black-and-white photograph of her mother in her wedding gown. She found the family treasure strewn among the muck and marsh grass where her shattered home ended up in Hurricane Sandy’s wake.

If you have recovered photographs or photo albums that were damaged by the superstorm, don’t throw them out. There is hope for saving storm-damaged photos, according to Debra Hess Norris, professor and chair of the Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware. (more…)

Freezing Electrons in Flight

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2012Science1878, arizona, artificial, arvinder sandhu, atmosphere, atom, attosecond, camera, chemical process, destruction, eadweard muybridge, earth, electron, electron emission, electronic devices, electronic motion, emulsion plate, excited atom, femtosecond, formation, ground, henry timmers, high energy, horse, iconic series, laser flash, laser pulses, microscopic dynamics, molecular process, muybridge, mystery, natural, niranjan shivaram, oxygen molecule, ozone, phenomena, photo, photograph, physical, quintillionths, real-time, second, stroboscopy, super excited, technique, touch, ultrafast, ultraviolet light, university, upper atmosphere, zeptosecond

Using the world’s fastest laser pulses, which can freeze the ultrafast motion of electrons and atoms, UA physicists have caught the action of molecules breaking apart and electrons getting knocked out of atoms. Their research helps us better understand molecular processes and ultimately be able to control them in many possible applications.

In 1878, a now iconic series of photographs instantly solved a long-standing mystery: Does a galloping horse touch the ground at all times? (It doesn’t.) The images of Eadweard Muybridge taken alongside a racetrack marked the beginning of high-speed photography.

Approximately 134 years later, researchers in the University of Arizona department of physics have solved a similar mystery, one in which super-excited oxygen molecules have replaced the horse, and ultrafast, high-energy laser flashes have replaced Muybridge’s photo emulsion plates. (more…)

Do I Look Bigger With My Finger on a Trigger? Yes, Says UCLA Study

By Guest PostApril 12, 2012Culture, Generalair force office, american, anthropologist, brandishing a weapon, caulking gun, colin holbrook, craigslist, dangerous, daniel fessler, dimension, dirty harry, electric drill, handgun, jeffrey k snyder, kitchen knife, magnitude, mechanicalturk, meg sullivan, paint brush, photograph, pistol, rambo, scrawny thugs, ucla, violent conflict, website

UCLA anthropologists asked hundreds of Americans to guess the size and muscularity of four men based solely on photographs of their hands holding a range of easily recognizable objects, including handguns. (more…)

Another World, Magnified

By Guest PostMarch 14, 2012Scienceaesthetics, animals, arts and sciences, beauty and art, canada, ersilia anghel, fulgurite, human anatomy, humans, magnified, minerals, Netherlands, photograph, pituitary gland, plants, romania, sarah moore, sci pho, triple citizenship, united kingdom, university of arizona

UA undergraduate researcher Ersilia Anghel has been collecting artistic photographs of minerals, plants, animals and humans, illustrating the intersections between the arts and sciences.

Scientists and artists have long collaborated to produce illustrative images and paintings of medical procedures, human anatomy and botanical displays.

But with the emergence of new, advanced technologies, scientists have begun to more readily produce their own photographic works, often times revealing the aesthetics of another world around us. (more…)

Study: With the Right Photo, Your Facebook Text Profile Hardly Matters

By Guest PostMarch 7, 2012Technologyabout me, brandon van der heide, erin schumaker, extrovert, Facebook, introvert, jeff grabmeier, jonathan dangelo, ohio state, photograph, positive photo, profile photo, text, van der heide

COLUMBUS, Ohio – In most cases, your profile photo on Facebook tells viewers what they need to know to form an impression of you – no words are necessary, new research suggests.

College students who viewed a Facebook photo of a fellow student having fun with friends rated that person as extraverted – even if his profile said he was “not a big people-person.” (more…)

Distorted Art

By Guest PostFebruary 10, 2012Culturealuminum, art, art in distortion, black ribbon, clouds roll by, conceptual, cord, david meyer, distorted, ephemeral, flour sculpture, greater reston arts center, imagery, leah frankel, moonscape, personal discovery, photograph, suzi fox, topographic map, university of delaware, virginia

*UD art professor creates sculptures from baking flour, aluminum*

There’s a quality to David Meyer’s art that’s both conceptual and ephemeral, sort of like watching the clouds roll by.

You see with your mind, not your eyes. And even then, as with clouds, shapes move. Things change.

There’s art in distortion. (more…)

Byzantine Photo Exhibit Opens at Kelsey Museum of Archeology

By Guest PostOctober 1, 2010Cultureahmet ertug, architecture, byzantine, cappadocia, chora, christian, church of christ, hagia sophia, istanbul, mosaic, painting, photograph, turkey, turkish, vaults of heaven, visions of byzantium

DATES: Oct. 1, 2010-Jan. 23, 2011 and Feb. 4-May 29, 2011.

EVENT: “Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium” features a two-part series of ultra-large-scale photographs, many over six feet tall, by Turkish photographer Ahmet Ertug. (more…)

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