Drawings

Drawing by a participant highlighting the cardinality of numbers by using sets of grouped elements (animals). This type of drawing is generally accompanied by a 3-step solution. Credit: Hippolyte Gros A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris University (CYU) and University of Burgundy (uB), have analyzed drawings made by children and adults when solving simple problems. The scientists…

Even when we become adults, we are haunted by the feeling that Christmas is always a magical time for wishes to come true. Even small, even insignificant, but it’s all the same – when this happens, you feel involved in something wonderful, warm and truly magical.Christmas has many interesting stories, and here is one of them told by the TikToker @teachingwithmrswhite. The original poster works as a school teacher, and every Christmas, she tries to bring joy to her students. This time, it turned out especially great –…

The three different manipulations of street bins: a conventional control bin (A), the explicit normative bin (B), and the implicit normative bin (C). Credit: Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.rcradv.2023.200186 Does the design of a rubbish bin affect the amount of litter thrown into it? A new study published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances has compared the amount of…

Crack open just about any textbook dealing with medicine or science, and you'll see a lot of the same when it comes to the human anatomy illustrations: often white male bodies, usually very physically fit, absent tattoos, piercings or prosthetics. A duo of professors working in kinesiology and anatomy — including one from the University of Windsor — is hoping to change that by creating a new series of anatomy images. "The standard images that you see in textbooks don't really show the racial diversity that … I see, when I…

Common animals and plants. Histogram showing the percentage of drawings containing at least one representative of each group for A: animals and B: plants. These data represent the combined totals of both specific (e.g., ‘Robin’, ‘Daisy’) and general (e.g., ‘Bird’, ‘Flower’) representations. Credit: Howlett, Turner, 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) When asked to draw their local wildlife, 401 UK…

Science is founded on hard evidence, but ironically, many of the stories we tell about scientists and their experiments are not based on much truth.An apple falling on Newton's head didn't suddenly stimulate his idea of gravity; Darwin's theory of evolution wasn't founded on the beaks of finches.And Benjamin Franklin certainly didn't discover electricity by holding a kite in a storm.It's hard enough to imagine a great scientific mind standing in an open field, trying to attract a bolt of lightning to a metal key without…

Amanda Seyfried Takes Daughter To Work (Photo Credit – Bang Showbiz) Amanda Seyfried takes her daughter to work with her. The 37-year-old actress has six-year-old Nina and two-year-old Thomas with husband Thomas Sadoski and explained that she would often take her eldest to the set of Apple+ series ‘The Crowded Room’, where she would sit in her dressing room and draw pictures. Amanda Seyfried told People: “I did have my daughter on set quite a bit. She just knows how much I love my job and she knows I can be a good…

Drawing of Awunbarna 1 (left) and Awunbarna 2 (right). (Drawings by Darrell Lewis, 1998). Credit: Flinders University Archaeologists at Flinders University have identified rare images of Moluccan vessels from Indonesia's eastern islands in rock art paintings that may provide the first archaeological evidence of visitors from Southeast Asia from somewhere other than Makassar on Sulawesi.…

She may have retired from active performing, but Joan Baez has hardly been out of the spotlight. Since she stopped touring and recording in 2019, bringing the curtain down on a 60-year singing career, the 82-year-old folk music icon and social justice activist has fashioned a second career as a visual artist. She’s had two exhibits of “Mischief Makers,” acrylic portraits of inspirational figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Greta Thunberg and Nelson Mandela. And last week marked the publication of a new book of her…

<!----> The Mercedes-Geely JV ‘smart’ has unveiled the preliminary design details and official name of its first-ever sports utility coupé: the smart #3. It will be the second model to launch following the renewal of the smart brand. The new smart #3 is an all-electric SUV coupé . The smart #3…