Category: Art, Entertainment, Sports & Music
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“…[O]nce a year, the skies over…central Wisconsin …roar with the sound of the world’s largest air show, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture….[T]his year’s show …feature[d] th…debut of Boeing’s… 787 Dreamliner, the …successor to the aging 767 design…Txchnologist presents …highlights of recent years.”
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"Four More Years" (Norman Costa) This political cartoon by Clay Jones is one of the best I've seen. And "No," it is not an old cartoon. "Meet Clay Jones "Clay Jones was often sent to the principal's office as a child for making fun of his classmates. He discovered at a young age that he…
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Why do we watch food shows on TV? For a variety of reasons, as varied as the different offerings on the likes of The Food Network and The Learning Channel, analyzed to exhaustion by Akim Reinhardt on 3QD. I've come to the conclusion that I hate cooking, and would be entirely happy if I never…
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Jackson Pollock may have been a secret physicist, judging by a recent scientific analysis of his techniques and works. Or not. How many times do we do things without stopping to examine the underlying physical principles? I'm sure that many a cake may have been put together Amelia Bedelia-style, "A pinch of this, a toss…
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A friend sent me the link to this interesting web game and I am pretty impressed with the results. I have played it a few times and I can see that it can become quite an addictive distraction. The batting average of the Akinator in my hands is pretty impressive so far. Here are some of the "characters" it identified for…
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From time to time I write about artists, writers and other interesting personalities I come across in real life either by chance or by design. In late 2008 I presented Mimi Radhakrishnan and her work on our blog. After all the depressing news from Tucson and Pakistan that we have been discussing here for a while, this may be a good…
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I had mentioned in my previous post that had I access to Rabindrasangeet recordings earlier on, I might have been able to appreciate them better.The example of lovely singing that I linked to was a rendition of a song by two of the Rabindrasangeet Trinity, so to speak – Kanika Banerji and Suchitra Mitra. Of…
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During my recent trip to India, I was able to visit two art / history museums of interest. One was Tagore's ancestral home in the Jorasanko (Twin Bridges) area of Kolkata, the place of the poet's birth as well as his death. The other was the wonderful National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi which I had last seen many, many decades ago. A third equally…
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I Have Egg on My Face! by Norman Costa No joke! I misread the text of an article which contained an image of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' painting, L'Odalisque à l'esclave. The article referred to a gift made to John Kenneth Galbraith by the country of India. The generous gift was bestowed upon Galbraith, father…
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Another one of Stanley Fish's superior sounding fatuous essays appeared in the NYT's Opinionator blog. It is Law & Order he is criticizing this time. And why? For having a "law and order" agenda and for being unkind to the rich and the exceptional. Heck, the characters that Jack McCoy and his band of justice seekers go after…
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