What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is moulding your taste in art.
Monoculture: How Our Era's Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives | Brain Pickings - 1 views
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The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed.
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During the Middle Ages, the dominant monoculture was one of religion and superstition. When Galileo challenged the Catholic Church’s geocentricity with his heliocentric model of the universe, he was accused of heresy and punished accordingly, but he did spark the drawn of the next monoculture, which reached a tipping point in the seventeenth century as humanity came to believe the world was fully knowable and discoverable through science, machines and mathematics — the scientific monoculture was born.
Music for bicycle parts - CBS News - 0 views
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"Baber lets his surroundings serve as his orchestra and his inspiration: "It all came from when I was a little kid hearing the spokes of my bike and imagining, 'Oh, I wish I could play that like I could play these other instruments." Lately he has been doing just that: making music from sounds created by bicycle parts. "There's something really exciting and fascinating about discovering these sounds that maybe nobody's ever made on a bike," Baber said."
Iconic Movie Scenes Cleverly Recreated. - 0 views
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"Canadian photographer Christopher Moloney loves movies. For his latest photo series, "FILMography" Moloney explores his love of film in a really unique way. Through careful analysis, he recreates iconic scenes from his favorite flicks, in their real world locations. How he does it though, is brilliant. Check it out."
Provocative artworks collection - 0 views
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