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 »

What’s Pain Got to Do with It? In Art, It’s Everything

No pain, no pleasure, no art... No brain. Read More »

NEWS: AUTUMN 2013 – Happenings in Art, Science and Other Stuff

Listening to your pain... Warhol's true legacy lives in Pittsburgh... Read More »

2013 Carnegie International: A Quick Tour of a Must See

Why art matters...Museums are places of learning...Play and creativity... Read More »

Brain Game Race – Has NeuroRacer Won?

Cross-task transfer of cognitive enhancement appears to have been achieved, but... Read More »

Unwrapping the Rapper – fMRI Reading of Creativity

Capturing the brain during a creative process...Finding authentic art, and the trouble with beauty... Read More »

Titian in Venice & Rome – In A New Light with LEDs, Neurobiology…

Meeting Manet, rendezvous of the mistresses... Why old masters matter in Modernism… Artistic intention questioned... Read More »

Roman Pearls & Baroque Beauties – Borromini vs Bernini

Architecture as geometry or theatre, shaping or demonstrating behavior? Read More »

At Home in Rome – Thomas Houseago’s Monumental Figures

Art is indeed a process, all the way from Michelangelo to Rodin to Picasso and Henry Moore, and more… Read More »

NEWS: SUMMER 2013 – Happenings in Art, Science and Other Stuff

When did the Dutch stop going to church? How to build on a limited Earth? Read More »

Dispatch from Venice – Ai Weiwei’s Biennale Knockout

He understands the power of material... Read More »