How the German philosopher and the Argentine author anticipated the long, strange road down which Werner Heisenberg would lead physical science.
Tag: 04.28.13
Neurocriminology: Locating The Criminal Mind
“Modern-day scientists have now developed a far more compelling argument for the genetic and neurological components of criminal behavior. They have uncovered, quite literally, the anatomy of violence.”
Almodóvar Releases ‘My Gayest Film Ever’
I’m So Excited (Spanish title Los amantes pasajeros) is “a screwball comedy set in a transatlantic jet, full of mile-high blow jobs and dancing cabin stewards camping it up to the Pointer Sisters.” Says the filmmaker, “I like the idea of helping people to have fun because the atmosphere [in Spain] right now is so very bleak.”
Marina Abramovic Is Making Ballet
The mother of all performance artists is working at, of all places, the Paris Opera Ballet, collaborating with Sibi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet on a new setting of Ravel’s Boléro.
Salman Rushdie On Moral Courage
“Perhaps we have seen too much, grown too cynical about the inevitable compromises of power. There are no Gandhis, no Lincolns anymore. One man’s hero (Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro) is another’s villain. We no longer easily agree on what it means to be good, or principled, or brave. … Even more strangely, we have become suspicious of those who take a stand against the abuses of power or dogma. It was not always so.”
Easter Sunday At London’s Atheist Church
“A screen above [our] heads displayed the words ‘Live Better, Help Often, Wonder More.’ And then, our high priest arrived … [in] a patterned tie and pink skinny jeans. As he stood before his beaming congregation, the band struck up a tune: ‘Wild World,’ by Cat Stevens. Jones danced along for a while, gangly beneath the yellow lights. When the song ended, he welcomed us to the Sunday Assembly’s ‘Easter for Atheists’ service.”
Today’s Golden Age Of TV Being Driven By “Lunatic” Writers
“What becomes remarkable in retrospect is not just the rise of a new kind of storytelling, but the realization that an entire industry was built and controlled by writer-producers, men who typed for a living.”
Bob Brozman, 59, Guitarist And Ethnomusicologist
“He recorded his first album in 1981, and went on to make more than 30 others, divided between solo projects and collaborations with friends from around the world. In the process he introduced western audiences to an extraordinary variety of music.”
Cartooning In Iran Is Increasingly Dangerous
“Many political cartoonists have tried to become ambiguous and communicate a message in a way that it makes it hard for the government to come after them.”
Lang Lang: Stop Slamming Classical Chestnuts
“At the suggestion that commercial success and artistic integrity are mutually exclusive, the nicely glowing coals burst into flames.”