Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T.S. Eliot, from "The Rock" (1934)
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ABOUT THIS BLOG I report on the latest trends in science and the arts. I search the literature and news (and the world, in my travels) for instances where the two touch - inside the human body, sometimes quite funny. Check out the site...click the tag cloud... ENJOY. Happy travels! Read More »

NEWS & UPDATES – A New Feature On This Site

This website does not give answers, just ask questions — intelligent and necessary ones, I hope Read More »

Three Quarks For Muster Mark – Who Is Murray Gell-Mann?

Nobel Prize, physics, James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake and so on… But who missed the mark? Read More »

Blurring Boundaries In Art – Why La La Land Is Such Fertile Ground?

Why is William Forsythe coming to Los Angeles? Avant-garde dance, neuro-biology… and art? Read More »

The Art Of Smell & Strip Club Science – The Snobbery Of The Senses

You say art, I think painting, why? But dance is art, music is art, writing is art… Read More »

Why Does Abstract Art Get No Respect? The Clue Is In The Picture

Chinese calligraphy is the ultimate abstract art that sustains and grows a culture but… Read More »

Action Painting to Chinese Calligraphy and Back – A 50-year Journey in Seven Pictures

Abstract Expressionism is a universal language, not just a post-war American art movement. Read More »

Memory Distortions in a Museum Tour – Mice (and fMRI) Tell the Truth

Our brain is neither a camera nor a computer, but a faulty and happy machine… And creative Read More »

Memory is What Art is Made of – Images

Surrealism to too-Realism... Fallible memory makes memorable art... Read More »

Blind Tennis to Dolphin Dance – William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt

The visual brain involved in hearing echoes… Echolocation in bats and men… Read More »

Serious Science, Awesome Art – The Difference?

Which one of these images is art? Read More »