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Remembering the Titanic Without Leaving Dry Land
Last week it seemed as if BBC News broadcasts had become obsessed with the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that they had a reporter on the vessel that was going to duplicate the path...At the Boundary Between Scientific And Imaginative Thinking
My Examiner.com interests have recently brought my attention to a new book by Luciano Chessa entitled Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Since I know very little about the Italian Futurists, I figured this might be a good way to fill in a gap that might provide...Davis Pepper Spraying Incident Gets Global Attention
Yesterday I ran a piece on how the Occupy movement in London has extended its attention to consumerism in the art world. Here in the United States, however, the primary focus of Occupy has been the efforts of the 99% to do something about economic inequality. ...Remembering What I Read
The Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño died in 2003. About all I know of him came from articles written about him in The New York Review. I was therefore surprised to see that, this past Thursday, he had a post on NYRBlog. ...No Fooling About Creativity
The front page of the Books section in today’s San Francisco Chronicle devoted its left-hand column to a new book by Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works, with a review written by David D’Arcy, described as a correspondent for the London...
Is Encyclopædia Britannica Really Ready for the Digital Age?
Today the editors of Encyclopædia Britannica used their blog to post the discontinuation of their print edition and establish themselves strictly in the online domain. As I discovered in a post of my own from April of 2008, this is not the first time...Flunking Barack Obama
There is much more to Diane Ravitch’s latest post to NYRBlog, “Flunking Arne Duncan,” which appeared earlier this week, than her systematic account of all the ways in which Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education has done such a dreadful job....Have the ‘Mavericks’ Left Our Shores?
I have to say that I am generally sympathetic with the misgivings that Joshua Kosman voiced in the Sunday Datebook section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle. The title of his article is “Maverick idea for Symphony festival – new players;”...
