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Jay Rayner mourns the passing of a culinary landmark, Kettner's in SohoSomething awful has happened in the heart of London's restaurant world; the kind of thing which makes me want stick pins in dolls and think filthy evil thoughts about people I've never met. Somewhere, someone who thinks they are very clever indeed has had what they thought was a brilliant idea an... |
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Gallery: The First Decades of Seeing the Unseen: Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtWhat are the social consequences when science allows us to see things that had previously been invisible? Scientists have revealed microscopic life, nanoscale molecules and galaxies billions of light-years away. These images have revolutionize... |
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What Kind Of Genius Are You?WIRED: In the fall of 1972, when David Galenson was a senior economics major at Harvard, he took what he describes as a “gut” course in 17th-century Dutch art. On the first day of class, the professor displayed a stunning image of a Renaissance Madonna and child. “Pablo Picasso... |
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Grandfather of Microphotography RediscoveredDrawing was a terribly important part of science until the mid-19th century. Without photography, scientists, particularly in the life sciences, had to document what they saw with painstaking illustrations. The clarity and "realness" of photographs eventually relegated scientific d... |
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Rare Microphotographs Resurface After 150 YearsDrawing was a terribly important part of science until the mid-19th century. Without photography, scientists, particularly in the life sciences, had to document what they saw with painstaking illustrations. The clarity and "realness" of photographs eventually relegated scientific d... |
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Dery on decapitationLast week, I touched a nerve with a post discussing whether one could retain consciousness, even briefly, after decapitation. A heady conversation ensued. (Sorry.) Cultural critic Mark Dery then pointed me to a feature he wrote in 2003 for Cabinet Magazine. Mark would seem to be the perfect wri... |
