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!
A BOOK REVIEW: Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain
Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain By Fernando Cervero The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 2012 172 pp., illus. b/w.…
Shakespearean Actors And Halle Berry Neuron – Where Is Our Free Will?
The problems with artificial intelligence.
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
Los Angeles on my mind in July…
2017 Venice Biennale (I) – Art As Mirror
VIVA ARTE VIVA! is a return to art, not polyannaism or politics….
Desert X – Everywhere & Nowhere
From A-Z with X in between…
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
Luminance value (tone) gives form and depth to a scene…color does not…