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RIP Sir David Frost (April 17, 1939 – August 31, 2013)
A fond farewell, with thanks, to standout broadcast journalist David Frost, who died yesterday at the age of 74. His resume was long and distinguished, and included stints as a comedian and game-show host. He’s most remembered, though, as a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cunard Line, David Frost, MV Queen Elizabeth, Richard Nixon, RIP
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Much doubt, even more to lose, in Syria
Let me start by saying I’m in agreement with Secretary of State John Kerry: What happened on August 21 in Ghouta, Syria was a war crime, a crime against humanity, a moral obscenity. Those responsible should absolutely be brought to … Continue reading
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Shocking, maybe sad, definitely irrelevent
So I had it in mind to discuss the pop-culture event that sparked coast-to-coast tizzies this week. Miley Cyrus put a stake in Hannah Montana’s heart at the MTV Video Music Awards, with a performance that was, depending on your perspective, … Continue reading
Look inside your brain
Here’s some neuroscience you can play with at home. According to just-published research a simple optical illusion can give you a real-time insight into your brain activity. Specifically, the strobing illusion will be in rhythm with, and according to the … Continue reading
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Tagged brain waves, Journal of Neuroscience, meditation, Sokoliuk, VanRullen
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Art is set to conquer its final frontier
Artist expression seems to be our oldest form of expression, or at least our oldest enduring one. As such, our artists (which includes all of us, when you think about it; all of us who have ever been…) have by … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art in space, Clyde Space Ltd., culture, iam8bit, space, what is culture?
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An enduring urban mystery, up close and personal
Some true-life mysteries strain credulity and compel you to accept, should you engage with them, that forces or conspiracies or unknown faculties are a-swirl, busily creating a clandestine world totally divorced from the one you perceive with your apparently unreliable … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001 A Space Odyssey, Arnold Toynbee, Cleveland, Resurrect Dead, Stanley Kubrick, Toynbee Tiles
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I culture you: Brews gone bad
For most of human history, there has been beer. The brewing arts were conceived as a way of processing excess grain, of turning it into a longer-lived, refreshing consumable. In its earliest iterations, the introduction of yeast—thus the production of … Continue reading
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Tagged beer, brewing, Food Babe, food purity, foodbabe.com, homebrewing, I culture you, PSA
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RIP Helen Thomas (Aug 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013)
She was a White House correspondent throughout the administrations of nine presidencies, and she counted herself friend to none of them. Opinionated, tenacious, journalistically incorruptible — Helen Thomas was the Grand Dame of the Washington press corps not by seniority … Continue reading
Happy birthday, Rembrandt
Today’s Google Doodle offers a helpful reminder that on this day 407 years ago, there was born in the Netherlands a man who would modernize art, make it accessible, and who would create a body of work so real, so … Continue reading
Books are evolving (and not the way you think)
Plenty has been written about the quantum evolution we’ve witnessed in the world of publishing over the last ten or fifteen years. It’s true that a slim majority of books now in print are actually just that–in print; in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, Columbia College, e-books, Gutenberg press, printing, publishing, Tim Burtonwood, what is culture?
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RIP Richard Matheson (Feb 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013)
A sad farewell to one of the most prolific and influential writers of whom most people have scarcely heard (which is a terrible thing to say in an obiturary, but it happens to be true and in saying it, I … Continue reading
Being (a hero) John Malkovich
Hats off to insanely talented actor, director, fashion designer (!) and all-around good egg John Malkovich. His filmography alone was already enough to rank him high among The Deconstruction’s favorite peeps. Then he went and saved a life. It happened last Saturday, … Continue reading
Getting to know Francis Bacon
Opportunities to learn pop up quite unexpectedly. You have to be ready to seize them, to revel in them, and yes, to begin learning from them. Their unpredictability demands that. Take for instance my new-found fascination with the life of … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, English Renaissance, Francis Bacon, philosophy, what is culture?
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I culture you: The Netflix Files
I am a recent convert to the Netflix experience. And as you probably know, there are no more fervent evangelists than the converts. Not to put too fine a point on it, but streaming entertainment content is what I’ve been … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrested Development, Charlton Heston, Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This, comedy, documentary, I culture you, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull: Nothing is Easy, movies, music, Netflix, Rex Harrison, Shut Up Little Man!, The Agony and the Ecstacy, Tommy Chong, TV, what is culture?
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