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Leonardo da Vinci
Buon natale!
We wish you joyous festivities and we look forward to sparking scientific curiosity in 2025.
Leonardo’s interconnected universe (without God)
Steph Rizzo speaking at the Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas – DED Talks program, Maldon Victoria, 4/8/2024 This year’s Goldfields Gothic Festival of Dark Ideas provided a perfect platform to unearth lesser-known ideas about Leonardo da Vinci’s genius. Leonardo lived during Europe’s Renaissance (Italian: Il Rinascimento, meaning rebirth), when Humanism was the prevailing philosophy.
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Future machines inspired by Leonardo
How do we teach young people to be the leaders of tomorrow? How can we help them to be curious and engaged lifelong learners, empowered with the skills to thrive in the 21st Century? Whittlesea Tech School is one of 10 Tech Schools created by the government of Victoria to provide free high-tech STEM (Science,
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Learn how to see with Leonardo
Is your New Year’s resolution to be more creative, a more effective problem-solver, more compassionate, healthier and happier? If so, consider learning how to be a polymath like Leonardo da Vinci! Leonardo knew that everything is connected to everything else. He learned from nature. His fascination with the anatomy of humans and animals, as well
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Da Vinci in Las Vegas
When in the 15th Century a young Leonardo da Vinci discovered fossilized shells, whale and fish bones in mountain caves in the north Italian Alps he questioned the prevailing Judeo-Christian worldview of his time. Da Vinci is famous for his exquisite paintings and during his lifetime was sought after as a military engineer and inventor.
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Learn from Leonardo
“Leonardo da Vinci’s most important legacy was his capacity to generate new ideas.” For the first time in Australia, community, business and thought leaders will participate in a conversation to explore Leonardo’s technical brilliance alongside his personal attributes of curiosity, observation and reflection, imagination, determination, courage and collaboration. Join guest speaker, MP Dr Tien Kieu,
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Learning should be fun!
Education experts and historians may be able to shed some light on what stage in the evolution of Western civilisation we started to think that learning is a serious affair and somehow separate from playing. This distinction is as misguided, and as unhelpful, as the distinction between the processes that lead to scientific discovery and
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The role of imagination in science
Albert Einstein may, or may not, have said that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” A century ago the American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist Charles Sanders Peirce wrote that inductive and deductive reasoning on their own never led to a new idea. He warned
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Critical Thinking, Science and Art
Raphael’s masterpiece, The School of Athens (1509 – 1511) is a who’s who of influential philosophers, mathematicians and scientists spanning 2000 years of Western civilisation. With Plato and Aristotle as the central figures, the iconic fresco has come to symbolise the connections between art, philosophy and science. Framed by the impressive arch and dwarfed at
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