Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain By Fernando Cervero The MIT Press, Cambridge, London, 2012 172 pp., illus. b/w.…
Category: Essays
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
2017 Venice Biennale (I) – Art As Mirror
VIVA ARTE VIVA! is a return to art, not polyannaism or politics….
MoMA 1929 – Monet, Cézanne, & Van Gogh Revisited
Alfred Barr’s amazing insight…a must read to appreciate today’s art – and neurobiology
Helping The One-Percenters – The 99% Do Their Best
By creating the problems for them to solve…
Zaha Hadid – The Unfinished Story
She bravely redefined architecture – a real architects’ architect…
Harvard’s New Admissions Policy – What’s Art Got To Do With It
Water Lily Pond (1917) Claude Monet (1840-1926) * 
Harvard University announced in late January of this year a major revision to
The Death Of Art – When Robots Replace Humans
That ‘singularity’ is not what everyone thinks… How certain is it? Why art will not be needed…