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For the third event, I decided to attend "Hox Zodiac", hosted by Victoria Vesna and in collaboration with Siddharth Ramakrishnan. This collaboration is mainly presenting the interest of the correlation between the order of How genes on a chromosomes and the order of gene development in the embryo (Vesna) , stated in the introduction video. Professor Vesna created an incredible idea of using the Chinese Zodiac, to symbolize the relationship of the two cultures as we learned in unit one.  When I walked into the event, I was given a booklet of my animal sign. It was a rabbit, because I was born in 1999. Each animal represents each birth year, in a cycle of 12 animals including rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. It is calculated according to the Chinese lunar calendar (TraveChinaGuide). With all the encouragements about this topic, it actually creates an art work. As you can see in the picture attached, each animal has a d...

I would say that there are a lot of aspects of technology we have learned throughout the course pertains to "Space" topic. It seems like without the access we have to technology, we wouldn't be able to obtain informations about space today. In lecture, professor explained how Copernicus first introduced the heliocentric model in 1512, and it was scientifically the first time of having the idea of the sun being in the middle of the solar system. (Vesna) model of Copernicus' heliocentric There was a leap in technology during the space exploration in the 17th century due to the invention of telescope. It is very interesting that one of the previous topic in this class, nanotechnology, was used to examine Bucky balls and how they are seen as a big factor in the theory that planet Earth was once bombarded by meteorites early in the history. (Handwerk) Bucky balls in meteorites Later in 1957, the USSR launched the first satellite called Sputnik, and it began...