Biology is a science of the beautiful. This beauty exists in things like form and color, but it has more complex expressions too. The passing-clouds pattern of cuttlefish skin, for example, shifts from moment to moment. Other patterns shift over longer time scales, some over millions of years. And below even this level of beauty there are deeper wonders. This is the level of cells that look like ghosts in silk, of microscopic structures that weave whirling plumes of fibers, of the delicate origami of protein folding (folding upon folding, upon folding, upon folding: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary…). And below even this layer is the ultimate mystery of the origin of patterning itself, this too is coming into view. And we can now glimpse the very choreography of the universe that led to you, reading this course description. In this class we will explore all of this via abstract drawing, the growing of organisms, film and photography, microscopy, model-making, AI, and much more.Science and Math (SCIMA) courses develop students' capacity for evidence-based reasoning through the study of life, earth, and physical sciences and of computational and theoretical mathematics. In these courses, students learn to recognize and interpret meaningful patterns of information; to assess the validity of empirical claims, distinguishing between opinion and fact; and to understand the sociocultural relevance of scientific and mathematical thinking.

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