the beginning of art
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curious facts
seriously, you can buy a book on this
teach your dog to read
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sculpture quiz
When a sculptor is concerned mainly with “mass” he uses steel solids wire concrete bronze Another name for “space” in sculpture is scientitfic holes depth void size Watruba, Bill and Frink tend to use mass light space transparency lightness Whereas Calder, Smith and Uhlman use mass light space transparency lightness New sculptural ideas have
Planes versus volcanos
Considering that I am finally getting a chance to get to Europe to do a workshop and present a paper I am hoping that plans won’t be scuppered. There is a very nice gif animation here — and you can get it on a tshirt (I’m waiting for the animated version)! http://nl.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=16kxkb6&s=5 This animation is
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Marathon runner
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living placidly in southern Japan. Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice,
If I were a shoe
“if I were a shoe what shoe would I be? ” I think I would be the shoe on the foot of Mozart — Richard Gill (Australian conductor — heard on Radio National)
Studies suggest males have more personality
Males have more pronounced personalities than females across a range of species – from humans to house sparrows – according to new research. Consistent personality traits, such as aggression and daring, are also more important to females when looking for a mate than they are to males. Research from the University of Exeter draws together
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in the future we will identify plants with our phones
Google goggles has been brought out for phones running android software. Take a picture of a tourist icon, a painting, a shop, a book or a business card and have it identified and linked to the internet. Its not so good on plants as yet.
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why societies with a big gap between the rich and the poor are mostly worse off
http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why/evidence [!sigh! broken link]
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Insects Use Plant Like a “Telephone”
“Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues from the Netherlands Institute for Ecology have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. [via Cellular News] ‘Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant
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dancing cows after drought
At the end of a long drought, cattle, some of whom had never experienced rain, performed a dance of celebration by jumping first on their front and then on their back legs. Unfortunately I cannot find any photos of videos of this phenomena although I once saw a video by Karin Wegsjö of Swedish
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Andrew’s quiz
1. Sylvain Dorvan of Landes walked from Paris to Moscow in 1891, what was so special about his walk? 2. Francis Alys, the Belgian artist who resides in Mexico City, devised an art installation around a walk in 1995 called “The Leak” – what took place? 3. 40 years ago, Richard Long the British