Can 'funny' and 'science' be used in the same sentence? The California Institute of Technology and 89.3 KPCC think so. Starting Monday, Dec. 5, Caltech and 89.3 KPCC will kick off a witty one-minute daily program designed to give you your recommended daily allowance of science...along with a healthy dose of humor. Even if--especially if--you don't know the difference between a quark and a quasar, barely got a C in trigonometry, or blew up the high school chemistry lab, it's OK, you'll enjoy this new program.

There was a time when art and science were closely aligned, and often practiced by the same people. Leonardo da Vinci is a well-known example of this. After more than a century of growing intellectual specialization the relationship between art and science became distant and the practitioners, estranged. However, science has recently exposed society to unprecedented change and provocative new ideas, and as a result artists have begun to engage with science as part of their creative inquiry.

Sally Ride Science Festival

An international group of high-achieving high school students has converged on the campus of the California Institute of Technology this summer. Students from the United States as well as China, Germany, Greece, Kuwait, Pakistan, Singapore, and Turkey are participating in the Research Science Institute (RSI)--a highly competitive science program sponsored by Caltech and Virginia-based Center for Excellence in Education (CEE).