On a Thursday night, the Chicago Recovery Alliance’s silver van parks on California Avenue in Humboldt Park. Here, sterile needles, cotton and tourniquets are doled out to any registered community member. The nonprofit offer tips on how to safely inject drugs and avoid overdoses. Though it is supported by a number of HIV [...]
“A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.”
–Dorothea Lange
On NPR today was an interview with Linda Gordon, author of “Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits.” On Lange’s iconic portrait of the Great Depression, “Migrant Mother,” Gordon says this:
“…that’s really part of what Lange’s genius was about: That she could [...]
The front page of today’s New York Times’ health and science section shows a great picture of creating community through media. In the U.S., there are an estimated 12 million cancer survivors. Online users can submit a picture and a few words, building a community of cancer survivors through interactive media.
A new technology that simulates traffic flow is keeping Chicagoans safer.
A look at traffic flow during rush hour gives scientists at Argonne National Laboratory an idea what emergency evacuations look like. Argonne is a U.S. Department of Energy research and engineering lab. The lab develop systems like the one shown here to calculate [...]
It’s one thing to understand the expressions of individuals; it’s another to decipher the tone of an entire nation. America as a country has gone through a gamut of emotions, particularly in the last decade. From 9/11 to President Obama’s election, the public has experienced fear, hope and all the emotions in between. Click below [...]
A morning by Chicago’s Millennium Park revealed a gamut of emotions from young and old alike.
Dan Hill is the founder and president of Sensory Logic, a company that helps individuals and companies measure and manage emotions through eye tracking and facial coding
Hill teaches Dr. Paul Ekman’s seven main emotions found cross culturally. Hill’s book, “Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success,” gives a crash course on facial coding.