How Creating Comics Can Make Better Doctors – 60 Seconds With MK Czerwiec
C2ST Artist in Residence Aaron Freeman asks “The Comic Nurse” about the role of comic creation in the training of physicians. MK Czerwiec, a.k.a. “Comic Nurse”
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We graciously thank The Brinson Foundation for their generous sponsorship of the C2ST Science Communication Internship in 2021-2024. As a result, an incredibly talented group of diverse STEM undergraduate and graduate scholars at area colleges and universities researched and developed over 100 blogs.* Enjoy-If you like, please share!
*As of 10.25.24
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Music – There’s a Science to That – Nicolas Collins, Doug McBride, & Torin Hopkins
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at School of the Art Institute of Chicago Ballroom
When you imagine someone working in the music field, what do you see? A composer? A musician? A conductor? Would you ever picture a scientist or an engineer? The areas of science and music appear to some to be diametrically opposed to one another, but nothing could be farther from the truth in today’s music industry. Continue reading “Music – There’s a Science to That – Nicolas Collins, Doug McBride, & Torin Hopkins”
GarageBand, gTar and how technology can help turn you into a musician
By Haley BeMiller, Special to Blue Sky
Originally published at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/chi-c2st-music-technology-panel-bsi-20150325-story.html
Advances in technology have made it possible for just about anyone, even those who quit after one piano lesson, to explore music making.
That was the message of a panel of three music and music-technology experts who spoke during a Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST) event Tuesday night. The event was moderated by Aaron Freeman, C2ST’s artist in residence and former host of NPR’s Metropolis and WTTW’s Chicago Tomorrow.
Music producer Doug McBride, owner of Gravity Studios in Wicker Park, cited Apple’s GarageBand program as an example of production at a user’s fingertips.
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Music- There’s a Science to That
When you imagine someone working in the music field, what do you see? A composer? A musician? A conductor? Would you ever picture a scientist or an engineer? The areas of science and music appear to some to be diametrically opposed to one another, but nothing could be farther from the truth in today’s music industry.
Highland Park comedian tackles the humor in science
By Jennifer Fisher, Pioneer Press via the Chicago Tribune
Originally published at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/highland-park/news/ct-hpn-aaron-freeman-tl-0319-20150316-story.html
For the first time in his long career as a comedian, Aaron Freeman’s jokes are being fact-checked.
“I’ve never had anyone fact-check my jokes,” says the Highland Park resident. “It adds an extra degree of difficulty.”
An extra degree of difficulty, however, comes with the territory in Freeman’s new role as artist-in-residence for the Chicago Council on Science & Technology, a regional consortium on science and technology education and policy.
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A Gastroenterologist chats about The Enteric Nervous System
As part of C2ST’s participation in Brain Awareness Week Artist In Residence Aaron Freeman talks with gastronterologist Dr. Jack Ohringer about our body’s “other brain”.
