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Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s life story isn’t widely known and few of us would be able to identify him from a photograph. … Continue readingMondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Matyáš Moravec at SciTech Daily: Is Time an Illusion? How Logic Challenges Our Understanding of Reality. … Continue readingThe Philosophical Debate on ‘TIME’ Continues: A Century Later
The brain is our most energy-greedy organ, and in the hours after death, its enzymes typically devour it from within… … Continue readingWhy Some Human Brains Don’t Rot for Thousands of Years
Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form of self-expression … Continue readingThe Renaissance In Drawing
by Phillis Wheatley Peters: For nobler themes demand a nobler strain, And purer language on th’ ethereal plain. … Continue readingPoem of the Day: To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works
Many people are left behind in tasks that do not come under their control, and where they have control, they do not work on it, and the result is always
Karl Marx explained the 19th Century. Wolfgang Streeck, the German maverick thinker, is explaining the 21st. … Continue readingThis Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
Gandhi published the list in 1925. He also gave the list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, on a piece of paper before his assassination. … Continue readingGandhi on 7 Social Sins, and a Manto Quote
To paraphrase the title of the 1983 book by French philosopher Paul Veynes, Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? … Continue readingDid People Ever Stop Believing In The Greek Gods?
There in the park where I played as a kid I saw them painting the brown grass green. Just us early risers and the unfolding of… … Continue readingTuesday Poem: Journey to the End of the Mind
Lula, a new biography of Brazil’s current third-term president, describes the tension on the morning of April 7, 2018. … Continue readingBecoming Lula
That’s now possible, according to a new paper from a team including researchers from Stanford and Google DeepMind. … Continue readingAI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality