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time stretchers: the sum remains the same
Is Time simply a necessary concept and not really a creation? If so, Time and absence of Time would be in a conflictual relation, meaning you could have one or the other and not a combination thereof. Instead, there is … Continue reading
1939: atomic age stirrings
In 1939 the United States was on the threshold of a new era, but to the experts the future looked like a fourteen ton typewriter…In the United States at the time of the New York World’s Fair, with its theme … Continue reading
copernicus: going rogue on relative motion
A little errant goes a long orbit. Displacing man from the center of the universe. What began as some computational sleights of hand to help the Church with calendar problems soon assumed a life of its own. The earth was … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Einstein, Andreas Osiander, Copernican revolution, Galileo Galilei, Geocentrism, Hans Reichenbach, Heocentrism, Isaac Newton, jan brueghel the elder, John Milton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther, Nicholas Copernicus, Pierre Gassendi, Sir Fred Hoyle, Solomon Hart paintings
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Copernicus: beware of unnamed shooting stars…
The Copernican Revolution took a trajectory that would have made Copernicus do an orbit in his grave…wayward comets and and an earth displaced from the center of the universe, wandering in orbit through space trying to establish an identity… …The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Einstein, Andreas Osiander, Christiani Banti, Copernican revolution, Galileo Galilee, Galileo Galilei, Hans Reichenbach, International Star Registry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Luther, Nicholas Copernicus, Rocky Mosele
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garcon, there’s a yid in my coffee
The argument, to many, is not Land for Peace, but Land is Peace. Although the nature of warfare has changed, strategic depth is still critical. That is, the final determinant is what happens on the ground. Hence, maintaining possession of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Einstein, Benny Torati, Caroline Glick, David Ben Gurion, Eliyahu Israel composer, Israel Six Day War, Israel-Arab peace process, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oslo accords, The Ballad of the Weeping Spring movie, The Matchmaker Israel movie
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frightened fifties: jittery on the letter H
Waxing eloquent on the 1950’s. Why must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Does it make sense that Americans tend to think of that decade as a reassuring, serene and happy time, as, in short, a sort of Golden Age? … Continue reading
Darwin: cchh..chch…changes
…Of course, Darwin’s theory was not immediately accepted by all scientists, either; in England its opponents were lead by Sir Richard Owen, superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, while in America the chief protagonists for and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Albert Einstein, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, David Bowie, Emma Wedgewood, Henri Rousseau, Louis Agassiz, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir Richard Owen, Thomas Huxley
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messy antics
A cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind? … Or is it something a little more profound than Puritan theory, whereby the messy desk theory is actually in an in-between grey-zone, where a prim and proper desk may … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Gore Office, Al Gore's Office, Albert Einstein, Donald Norman Living with Complexity, Institute for Challenging Disorganization, Katherine Trezise, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Messy Desk theory, roald dahl, Robert Blinn, Robert Blinn Core 77, Walter Benjamin
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an electron: a may, a may and a not
…An electron can pass from the orbit of one nucelus to another’s without passing through space between. It occupies no particular position in space when its velocity is under observation; when its location is fixed, its speed is indeterminate. At … Continue reading