Protein folding? Well, it’s a video game.
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Learning at Harvard – Making Pottery & Watching Plants Grow
Consciousness is not a thing, but a process – William James.
Process is the new
A Halloween Tale of Elegance – The Grotesque Fashion of the Rodarte Sisters
Driving north on the Pasadena Freeway, we would pass a cluster of old Victorian homes. One day, we noticed that a piece of
Consciousness & Free Will – They Are Just Illusions
Just when we think we know why we are superior to monkeys – the larger size of our prefrontal cortex: that ‘thinking’ or executive brain – now neuro-biologists are telling us we don’t really
Who’s the Real Artist – Leonardo or Michelangelo?
Who is the greater novelist, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? The writer Kevin Hartnett, writing in The Millions admitted to his preference for “Tolstoy’s ability to see the angles of everyday life to Dostoevsky’s taste for the manic edges of experience.
London Spring – No Stone Unturned…
St Paul’s cathedral over the Millenium bridge from Tate Modern
Going to the Tate Galleries in London for me is like reading the New York Times.
Who Are Kiki & Booba? 98% of the People in the World Agree
So? But for sure 98% of the people in the world care – yes? Well, it’s just that Kiki and Booba may really be the Adam and Eve of our language.
Oh No, Art For Thought (?) – The 54th Venice Biennale
How far we’ve come!
In 1965, Susan Sontag wrote a ground breaking essay, Against Interpretation which she dedicated to the artist Paul Thek, a sometime lover
Is That de Kooning A Joke?
The Nobel prize-winning chemist Harold Kroto, in a lecture he gave in the British Library in 2006 asserted that all science started with art, with forms and shapes, and seeking balance and symmetry.
A recent research report from Simon Fraser University professor Travis Proulx claimed that abstract art is less threatening than absurd (surrealist) art,