“With their starkly different goals, methods, and cultures, psychoanalysis and neuroscience can appear to be two different species, mutually alienated, as if preoccupied with two altogether different pursuits. But to some, like Solms, they are merely two views of the same object.”
Tag: 08.25.15
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.25.15
Public Charity
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-08-25
Islam’s Pashtun Warrior for Peace: Badshah Khan
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2015-08-25
Monday Recommendation: The Jaki Byard Project
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-24
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The Revolution In Photography Right Now Will Change How We Think About Pictures
“Failure to recognize the huge changes underway is to risk isolating ourselves in an historical backwater of communication, using an interesting but quaint visual language removed from the cultural mainstream.”
12-Year-Old Trips, Punches Hole In $1.5 Million 17th-Century Painting
“Footage released by the organisers of ‘The Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius’ exhibition in Taipei shows the boy in shorts, trainers, a blue Puma T-shirt and holding a drink walk pass the still life, catching his foot and stumbling over. He looks up at the Paolo Porpora oil on canvas painting of flowers, shown later to have a fist-sized gash at the bottom, and freezes, looking around at other people in the room.” (includes video)
Merl Reagle, Beloved Crossword Author, Dies Suddenly At 65
“‘In the 1980s, a new group of puzzlemakers saw that crosswords were starting to remind them of their worst teachers from grade school,’ Mr. Reagle wrote in a 1997 article for The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Sunday magazine. ‘Wouldn’t it be more fun and attract more solvers if puzzles were a little more playful? Just a smidge trickier and a lot wittier?'”
Spiders Tune Their Webs The Way Humans Tune Guitars
“The means by which [spiders] distinguish between the two types of visitor – tuning their webs and interpreting the subsequent vibrations – is a secret that scientists have only recently unravelled.”