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Posts Categorized: Science
NEWS & UPDATES: Placebos are real medicine for some people…And art’s place in this new landscape
Some pains are real, like when you skin your elbow; others have no Read More »
The Death Of Art – When Robots Replace Humans
“When the evening is spread out against the sky...” (Photo credit Cecilia Wong, 6/30/2015 Los Angeles)
Ex Machina
It’s actually an excellent movie, a suspense thriller about a Google-type Read More »
NEWS & UPDATES: The Wordless Wonders Of Our Inner Net
NEWS:
Vernon Mountcastle, father of neuroscience died this January at age 96
“Can our brain understand our brain?” is the real Read More »
Monet And Kelly? Artistic Influence Defies Science
Ellsworth Kelly, White Relief over White (2003)
What is this?
Two white, shaped-canvas panels joined and hanging on the wall – which one is the Read More »
Consciousness (Biological) Update – Of Stephen Hawking And Art
What exactly is consciousness?
There is a bonobo (a near relative of chimpanzees and our own close cousin) that in his lifetime learned Read More »
That Gut Feeling Is Right – Art & The Visceral (Vagus) Nerve
‘What is art?’ is nowadays a Read More »
LED Lighting For The Sistine Chapel – The Genius Of Rome In New Glory
Sistine Chapel Ceiling: Creation of Adam (1510, Michelangelo)
Yes, I have been to the Sistine Chapel. But did I actually Read More »
NEWS & UPDATES: Should We Delete Unpleasant Memories?
Here is the list of current updates to:
Memory Distortions in a Museum Tour—Mice (and fMRI) Tell the Truth (Posted 3/16/2014)
8/28/2014 Susumu Tonegawa, the neurobiologist from MIT and HHMI, who conducted Read More »
Three Quarks For Muster Mark – Who Is Murray Gell-Mann?
Who is Muster Mark? Here’s the ringing Read More »