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!
Shakespearean Actors And Halle Berry Neuron – Where Is Our Free Will?
The problems with artificial intelligence.
Ellsworth Kelly Stamps—His Art Is For Freedom
I like my own freedom to do what I want without anyone telling me what to do. I feel we all want our space. My work has that feeling of really wanting its own space. My paintings are about freedom. *
Nature Or Nurture – New View Of DNA
Watson or Crick?
“Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick”.
– Francis Crick in What Mad Pursuit (1988, p.76)
The Monastery and the Microscope: A Book Review
The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality
On the Wall and More – June in London and Paris
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The London Mastaba, Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park 2016 – 2018, a temporary floating sculpture on The Serpentine Lake. *
The middle of June is probably not
2017 Venice Biennale (I) – Art As Mirror
[A note from Cecilia: See end of text] This year’s Biennale, in spite of some critics, for me fits the bill of art…
Desert X – Everywhere & Nowhere
Desert X, the first edition of a biennial in the vast Coachella Valley, 120 miles east of Los Angeles, opened
Thermal Military Camera – On The Refugees
Still from Richard Mosse’s Incoming
I had no idea this was only the beginning…
In the winter of 2002, I was crossing
Art & Math – Percussion Of Stone-age Serengeti
1.6 million-year-old stone handaxe (British Museum) from the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
Stone knapping was what
Cézanne The Neuro-artist – Form Over Color
Mont Sainte-Victoire (La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1885/1895) Paul Cézanne (French 1839–1906)
Keep your eyes at one of the dark spots in the painting – you can