Australian scientists have recreated a famous experiment and confirmed quantum physics’s bizarre predictions about the nature of reality, by proving that reality doesn’t actually exist until we measure it – at least, not on the very small scale.
Tag: 06.01.17
Is Science Really Just An Extension Of Philosophy?
According to the “spin-off” theory of philosophical progress, all new sciences start as branches of philosophy, and only become established as separate disciplines once philosophy has bequeathed them the intellectual wherewithal to survive on their own.
Watching A Photo Artist Collect His Raw Materials: Heaps Of Naked Bodies (And No, This Isn’t Spencer Tunick)
“On a recent Saturday morning in a desanctified church in Upper Manhattan, 24 people were piled together in a naked fetal hug. On a balcony one story above them was the New York artist Angelo Musco, taking photos of the group for his latest project.”
The First Woman-Filmmaker (She Started In 1896)
Alice Guy-Blaché “should be heralded alongside early filmmakers like Georges Méliès and Auguste and Louis Lumière. She was one of the first filmmakers – some argue the first – to work with fictional narratives, beginning with her 1896 La Fée aux choux in which babies are born from cabbages with the help of a fairy.”
Guerrilla Artist Called ‘Invader’ (And His Flamenco Dancer) May Have Invaded The Wrong Spot – A Bishop’s Palace
“Invader” is the nom de guerre (if you will) of a French artist who sneaks pixel-mosaic works (inspired by, yes, the old video game Space Invaders) onto buildings. A lot of places – for instance, the Standard Hotel (of course) on the Bowery in New York – are happy for the hipster cachet of an “invasion”, but the diocese of Málaga in Spain is not one of them, and the city government may well agree.
The Knitting Spies Of WWI, WWII And Beyond
For instance: “Phyllis Latour Doyle, secret agent for Britain during World War II, spent the war years sneaking information to the British using knitting as a cover. She parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 and rode stashed bicycles to troops, chatting with German soldiers under the pretense of being helpful—then, she would return to her knitting kit, in which she hid a silk yarn ready to be filled with secret knotted messages, which she would translate using Morse Code equipment.”
Shonda Rhimes Says There Are Two Ways To Cast Shows
With “Still Star-Crossed,” a new, multicultural tale of lovers (and power) set in Romeo and Juliet’s Verona, Rhimes has done the research – and it’s a choice she’s had to defend. “There’s racist casting and there is normal casting. … Normal casting to me is a process that strives for representation and in many cases, strives to simply portray the world as it actually is instead of as falsely non-inclusive. And sadly, sometimes that involves removing the whitewash that exists on history.”
Let’s Call Screen Adaptations Of Books What They Are: Fan Fiction Writ Large
Margaret Atwood: “The Handmaids have escaped from their box. They’ve gotten out of their package. They’re strolling all over the place. … They were in the Texas Legislature surrounded by men with guns. It could have been a still right out of [the show].”
Mexico City’s Art Scene Is Absolutely Booming
The numbers of galleries, art fairs and other independent art spaces have soared. “Even as violence has saturated the country — federal statistics show that homicides jumped 22% from 2015 to 2016 and 35% the year prior — the Mexican capital, some of its neighborhoods insulated from violence by money and private security, has grown as an international cultural magnet.”
The White Colonial French Were Deeply Worried, So Propagandists Came Up With An Infantilized Image of Africa
To calm down the French, who were worried about arming some of those they controlled through colonialism, propagandists produced “a range of stereotypical images of the black African soldier, who was characterized as both heroic and strong, but still limited in his power, as in the Banania advertisements that suggest a subservient and harmless individual.”