Fire EXIT- Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre November 9, 2009Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre Malin comme tout ! There’s a price for everything, even in the Louvre: Tomorrow, Apple will be opening up their very first Parisian Apple Store, and it’ll sit in the concourse right below I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid. According to Bloomberg, this’ll be Apple’s 277th store, worldwide. It […]
- Mon Dieu ! Apple Store Coming the Louvre November 9, 2009
Monthly Archives: August 2009
A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians
A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life. Dr. John, the library’s first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the … Continue reading
Listening in to 35,000-year-old music
Listening in to 35,000-year-old music Nature (460, p.663) has reported on the discovery of a 35,000-year-old flute in southern Germany, which demonstrates that the earliest modern human inhabitants of Europe had a sophisticated musical tradition. In evolutionary terms, this is … Continue reading
Wayne Krantz Keith Carlock Tim Lefebvre – Music Video 2009
Wayne Krantz Keith Carlock Tim Lefebvre – Music Video 2009 (via Paul Gilroy)
Japanese smileys vs. Ekman faces
Japanese smileys vs. Ekman faces Some medias and the blogosphere (see here, here and here) are celebrating a new study published in Current Biology, allegedly showing that recognition of facial expressions is not universal. Psychological universalists and relativists never seem … Continue reading
Etre ou ne pas être cyberdépendante ?
Etre ou ne pas être cyberdépendante ? Difficile pourtant de dégager un profil type de l’internaute cyberdépendant. “Autrefois, il s’agissait majoritairement d’hommes âgés de 25 à 35 ans (…). Maintenant, il semble y avoir une certaine parité entre les hommes … Continue reading
Charles Gatewood photography show in San Francisco
Charles Gatewood photography show in San Francisco For four decades, Charles Gatewood has trained his camera on underground scenes, from the Beats and the dark alleys of 1970s Mardi Gras to modern primitives and extreme sexual fetishists. He is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Photography, US
Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic?
Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic? In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville worried that free, capitalist societies might develop so great a “taste for physical gratification” that citizens would be “carried away, and lose all self-restraint.” Avidly seeking personal … Continue reading
Chaos and censorship at Beijing’s inaugural 798 Biennale
Chaos and censorship at Beijing’s inaugural 798 Biennale The inaugural Beijing 798 Biennale, held in the sprawling 798 art district in China’s capital, saw a chaotic opening on 15 August, with major works by Chinese artists widely censored by authorities. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, China, Civil Liberties
Gaza we are Coming
Gaza we are Coming A moving docu-thriller. In August 2008, two wooden Greek ships laden with 44 activists from 17 different countries managed something no other vessel had in 41 years and broke the marine blockade that Israel has unilaterally … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, Greece, Middle-East
