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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Einstein walks the line
Einstein recognized the fine line between the subjects of art and science. Insight in his fields of mathematics and astrophysics were born of intuition and imagination. “When I examine myself […]
Artists and scientists were better pals in ‘ole Europe
Artists were kind of a big deal in early modern Europe (c. 16th century). Apparently, they were vital in the scientific studies of astronomy, anatomy, natural history, and geography. There […]
Zen and the Art of…Art.
The majority of my art learnin’ is in the realm of Western Art. Honestly, my interest in the Oriental arts was minimal for quite a while; it was difficult to really […]
Add these museums to your TO DO list
I don’t know about you, but I like art museums much more than my current track record suggests. There’s one quite close to me, actually, but I am ashamed about […]
Round 1, SCIENTISTS VS. PHILOSOPHERS: Free will
[information taken from this article by Kerri Smith] The experiment: Individuals were put under a brain scanner. A screen lay before them, upon which a series of random letters would flash. […]
Explicative Definition of Art?
I recently downloaded a podcast of James Grant’s lecture on Defining Art from the Universityof Oxford. The past century has been a tangled knot of philosophies and bristling artists, and […]
