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  • How to Sit Less at Work

    How to Sit Less at Work

    Sitting all the time is bad for your health. It increases the risk of overweight, diabetes and cancer. That is why there are many gadgets on the market to make you sit less. We don’t know which are good and which are not. We at Cochrane Work at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health try to find out what really helps.

    We have a team of five volunteers who locate all evidence for or against the effectiveness of measures to reduce sitting. At the moment, it is still very uncertain what works and what does not (see: http://goo.gl/fe6MiB). We know that there are many recent studies that we should include. This requires a lot of hard work and stamina.

    You can follow some of the discussion on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sitlessatwork.

    We estimate that incorporating the new studies takes 144 person hours. We have no funding for this but we would like to reward the team that will do all this. We need 2500 euros to provide them with a small fee. You can help by ordering the newsletter, participating in the webinar or paying a visit to our office in Kuopio. This will help to keep the team motivated because they know that there is a crowd out there who cares. This will result in an up-to-date report of what we know of how-to-sit-less-at-work in January next year.

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  • Quantum Arts Jam

    Quantum Arts Jam

    CROWDFUNDING FOR SCIENCE!

    Quantum Arts Jam will merge art and physics in three different sessions. Together with the artists we will turn an equation into a painting and the Universe into a real dance.

    “We are physicists, constantly asking questions. From time to time we do find answers in experiments, formulas, even theories. However, we imagine things we cannot always picture.

    Mathematics is the language of physics, with which we tell stories that pictures hardly could. As universal as it is, our language is not spoken by everyone. That is why we need interpreters. That is why we asked for help from art. ”

    Quantum physicists will work together with the artists in improvised jam sessions, with an intention of creating atmosphere that speaks the dialogical language of quantum physics and art with both of its form and content.

    Wednesday August 12th 2015 at 4pm
    Sibelius-museum, Piispankatu 17, Turku

    Session 1: QUANTUM COMPLEXITY
    Dr. John Good & Dr. Libby Haney
    A dialogue between a crazy Irish quantum physicist and a fascinating London-based artist who was once a quantum physicist herself.
    https://sites.google.com/site/johngooldswebsite/

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    Session 2: DIAGRAMS OF LOVE
    Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco, artist Sibel Kantola & musician Minna Twice
    This is what happens when a physics professor meets her best friends artists over a coffee to chat about the life and works of one of the most well-known physicists of all times: Richard Feynman.
    http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/sci/yksikot/fysiikka/henkilokunta/maniscalco/Sivut/home.aspx
    http://www.belgrafik.com
    http://www.minnatwice.com/

    Session 3: BIG BANG TANGO
    Prof. Esko Valtaoja & jazz pianist Fabrizio Mocata
    The dance of the Universe is definitively a tango! Esko Valtaoja and Fabrizio Mocata will tell the story of the Universe as you’ve never heard before.
    http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/sci/yksikot/fysiikka/henkilokunta/valtaoja/Sivut/home.aspx
    http://www.fabriziomocata.com/homepage—english.php

    Enable our project by choosing the sum you are wishing to support us with!

    PHASES OF THE FUNDING:

    1.000€
    We will provide the Quantum Arts Jam Session!

    2.000€
    We will provide an edited video of the Quantum Arts Jam Session after the event, available for anyone online!

    3.000€
    We will provide a live streaming of the Quantum Arts Jam Sessions, available anywhere in the world!

    4.000€
    We will provide everything mentioned above, plus a thank you event attached to the Jam for anyone who supported us!

    Credits:
    University of Turku: Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Open Quantum Systems and Entanglement research Group, QuProCS-project, Department of Cultural History, Aboagora symposium

    Video credits:
    Edit: Anna Vepsäläinen
    Film: Mikko Tukiainen & Jaakko Vainio
    Millenium simulation: Klaus Dolag, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics / Earth at Night: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
    Photos: Daniel Montoya, Kavilo Photography, ABO Photography

    Workgroup:
    Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco
    PhD Elsi Laine
    Dr. Massimo Borrelli
    FM Jaakko Vainio
    FM Mikko Tukiainen
    FM Anni Välimäki

    Rahankeräyslupa/Permission for funding: POL-2014-11403 (University of Turku)

  • The Real Health Center (Pilot)

    The Real Health Center (Pilot)

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    The Real Health Center is the world’s first performance with scientifically proven health benefits. The Real Health Center combines new live art, high-level scientific research and an enchanting performance whose value can be judged with clear scientific indicators.

    In other words: Finally a performance that clearly articulates what good it does for you.

    The performance happens while strolling outside in the lovely summer air and combines scientific information about the body with gentle physical interaction. The Real Health Center has come about due to a pressing need to free knowledge from the dusty lecture rooms and send it to smell the grass in a park in June and to transform it from unhealthy sitting to multisensory experience.

    In addition to the scientific dimension the performance uses what’s most fundamental in art: Through experience the knowledge is absorbed with the whole body. By the experiential dimension the performance is able to approach life more comprehensively than science can ever imagine on its own. And in the end the performance finally reaches – like all art – to someplace else, to somewhere where no-one has gone before quite this way.

    We are searching for funding for a pilot with a larger project aimed to happen in 2015. The pilot is its own artistic whole which is possible to experience only by participating in this campaign.

    You can read more about the scientific and artistic background for the project in The Real Health Centre FB page (link in the sidebar).

    Concept and performance: Sami Henrik Haapala and Jaana Irmeli Turunen

    Photos: Marko Mäkinen. In the photos: Sami Henrik Haapala and Anna-Maija Terävä.

    The performances:
    Wed 4.6, Thu 5. 6., Fri 6. 6., Sat 7. 6., Wed 11. 6., Thu 12. 6., Sat 14. 6., Wed 18. 6.,
    Thu 19. 6. and on Midsummer Nights Eve on Fri 20. 6. All performances at 7pm.

    The pilot starts on Sun 18. 5. and its climax will be celebrated on Sun 15. 6. with a psychosomatic brunch at Lepoinstituutti in Sörnäinen, Helsinki.

    The funding 5000 e. that we are searching for will guarantee the work of two professional artists for one month, the pay for the costume designer and her materials, the costs of graphic design, the payments for the consulting work of healthcare professionals, set design and props.

    You are warmly welcome to help us in creating a more ecological performing art, to create new production systems for art and to enjoy the summer with all of your six senses!

    Sami and Jaana