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
Category: Body
Too Much Science Is Bad For Art? Gabriel Orozco Thinks So
Gabriel Orozco’s installation in the de la Cruz collection, Miami, Florida
Although he keeps up on the latest science, the Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco is careful to keep a distance.
When Einstein Met le Corbusier – What Went Wrong?
What is it about physics that so intimidates? Or is it just Einstein?
Le Corbusier recalled his visit to Princeton in 1946 to meet the Nobel laureate:
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.
Teaching Is Like Broadcasting?
“I can see often, clearly in my head, a broadcasting booth, soundproof in glass, sitting at the head of a classroom. And on each student desk sits a radio, everyone tuned in to a different wavelength.”
Confucius Is Finicky – How To Live
If his mat was not straight, he did not sit on it.
I am not making it up
Edward Twitchell Hall – Who?
Edward T. Hall (1924 – 2009) whose death
Information = Knowledge?
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)
Since those bleak pre-war days when Eliot put down these lines, our world has galloped on at even greater speed, with a velocity ever more dizzying. This of course is in great part aided by the advent of the computer and the information age. It has created such wealth and prosperity utterly unimagined a mere seventy years ago. But has all this made our lives better? Are we wiser and happier? We should be, if information = knowledge.