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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Liquidising goldfish 'not a crime' - 1 views

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  • An art display which invited the public to put live goldfish through a food blender did not constitute cruelty to animals, a Danish court has ruled. The goldfish were placed on display swimming in the blenders, and visitors were told they could press the "on" button if they wanted. At least one visitor did, killing two goldfish.
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Don't Worry, Be Happy | bgreinhart - 1 views

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  • Why can’t the symphony require all music to be happy? Why can’t a human require all her moods to be happy? Art is supposed to represent, reflect, and confirm the fullness of the human experience; art is the means by which we, as a species, communicate with ourselves. To illuminate even a single soul requires evocation of an infinite depth of emotion, not just one emotion but a whole teeming catalog of them, spilling across days and years and lives, common moods popping up like motifs and disappearing. The sounds of life are written in every key; the sights are painted in every color. To deny this is to deny yourself. To deny art which is not happy is to wall off nearly all of your being from contact with the outside world. I suspect that someone who demands all music be happy has forgotten how to be truly happy.
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Painting Previously Identified As A Forgery Confirmed As Van Gogh Original - 3 views

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  • heyddp on 15 Oct 13
     
    It is the same piece of art work, before they thought it was a forgery, so they did not deem it as an actual work of art, but later they found out it was made by a great artist. So is it the name that matters or the actual artwork?
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BBC News - How did van Gogh find colour? - 0 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    "Living for two years in Paris changed Vincent van Gogh. He might not have realised it at the time, but as he met other artists in the French capital, he gradually moved away from his dark, sombre Dutch works - towards much brighter palettes and expressive brush work."
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Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics : The New Yorker - 0 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    "Unlike traditional cartography, the map was designed to portray political terrain and, in Lincoln's mind, moral terrain. The President called it his "slave map." Today we would call it an infographic."
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Mapping the Nation - A Companion Site to Mapping the Nation by Susan Schulten - 0 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    "From maps of disease and the weather to the earliest maps of the national population, this was a period when the very concept of a map was reinvented. By the early twentieth century, maps had become common tools of analysis, communication, and visual representation in an increasingly complex nation. Today we live in a world that is saturated with maps and graphic knowledge. The maps on this site reveal how this involved a fundamentally new way of thinking."
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Modern psychology's God problem | GarethCook - 7 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    "Modern psychology has a serious God problem. America is a deeply spiritual country. More than half of Americans say religion is "very important" to them, and more than 90 percent profess a belief in a higher power. Yet psychology, as a scientific endeavor, has done almost nothing to understand how spiritual beliefs shape psychological problems, or affect treatment. "
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The Nocebo Effect: How We Worry Ourselves Sick | GarethCook - 0 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    "With placebos ("I will please" in Latin), the mere expectation that treatment will help brings a diminution of symptoms, even if the patient is given a sugar pill. With nocebos ("I will harm"), dark expectations breed dark realities."
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Why Japan Surrendered | GarethCook - 1 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    "In recent years, however, a new interpretation of events has emerged. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has marshaled compelling evidence that it was the Soviet entry into the Pacific conflict, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that forced Japan's surrender. His interpretation could force a new accounting of the moral meaning of the atomic attack. It also raises provocative questions about nuclear deterrence, a foundation stone of military strategy in the postwar period. And it suggests that we could be headed towards an utterly different understanding of how, and why, the Second World War came to its conclusion."
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Brain Games are Bogus | GarethCook - 0 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    " A pair of scientists in Europe recently gathered all of the best research-twenty-three investigations of memory training by teams around the world-and employed a standard statistical technique (called meta-analysis) to settle this controversial issue. The conclusion: the games may yield improvements in the narrow task being trained, but this does not transfer to broader skills like the ability to read or do arithmetic, or to other measures of intelligence."
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Do Plants Think? | GarethCook - 0 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Oct 13
     
    "How aware are plants? A plant can see, smell and feel. It can mount a defense when under siege, and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way. A plant can even be said to have a memory. But does this mean that plants think? "
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BBC - Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery - 1 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 20 Oct 13
     
    Ironic drawings about art by modern British ceramic artist Grayson Perry, who gives a series of 3 entertaining and insightful lectures for the 2013 BBC Reith Lectures.
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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Grayson Perry: Playing to the Gallery: 2013, Democrac... - 0 views

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 20 Oct 13
     
    "In the first of four lectures, recorded in front of an audience at Tate Modern in London, the artist Grayson Perry reflects on the idea of quality and examines who and what defines what we see and value as art. He argues that there is no empirical way to judge quality in art. Instead the validation of quality rests in the hands of a tightknit group of people at the heart of the art world including curators, dealers, collectors and critics who decide in the end what ends up in galleries and museums."
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