There are no photographs ? only references to photographs ? in Sontag?s book. I will make this a little easier for the reader. Here are the two Fenton photographs taken “from the same tripod position.” I gave them the names ? “OFF” and “ON” ? the-photograph-with-cannonballs-off-the-road and the-photograph-with-cannonballs-on-the-road. Investigator Errol Morris analyzes, perhaps to the […]
Year: 2007
The value of a Harvard education
He also told the story of some Massachusetts commissioners who invited the Indians to send a dozen of their youth to study free at Harvard. The Indians replied that they had sent some of their young braves to study there years earlier, but on their return “they were absolutely good for nothing, being neither acquainted […]
Romance in your veins
Thousands of songs, poems, novels and movies explore the link between obsession, compulsion and romantic love. So, too, does at least one published scientific study. Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi and Giovanni B Cassano of the University of Pisa, and Hagop S Akiskal, of the University of California San Diego, undertook the first thorough biochemical investigation […]
Gaap!
Wolter Seuntjens, the world’s best-known and perhaps most philosophically-dedicated scholar on yawning, has a new book out. It’s called Gaap! The title, like the book, is in Dutch. An interview with the author, on the Dutch television program De Wereld Draait Door, is also in Dutch. Click here to see and hear it (the interview […]