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meaning what you mean
Do I know you mean what you mean? If a person thinks in one language, they think one way; in another language another way. At least that is what Benjamin Lee Whorf said, who explained why a person’s thought is … Continue reading
stock market monkeys
New Study: monkeys more adept at stock picking than seasoned professionals. Not entirely true, but an active monkey exceeded a passive investment fund. The studies have been done in many variations over the years where randomly a randomly selected portfolio … Continue reading
benevolent nature: and then came darwin
…The world was not only imaginatively comprehensible, it was benevolently ordered. It is true that, ever since Copernicus and Galileo, the earth could no longer be regarded as the center of the universe; the music of the spheres was stilled. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, David Klinghoffer, david teniers the younger, Frans Snyders, H.P. Blavatsky, J. B. Lamarck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Peter Singer Darwinian Left, Richard Dawkins, Wesley Smith author
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darwin: everything is amazing and nobody’s happy
…Charles Darwin’s body lies in Westminster Abbey, close to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton. It is a proximity which few would challenge, nor is there any oddity in the presence there of Newton, devout Christian and Biblical scholar that … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, david teniers the younger, Dean Bradley, Ferdinand van Kessel, Frans Snyders, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, T.H. Huxley
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kick sand in their faces
Synthetic credit. Trading a black box. Small is beautiful? Hardly when it comes to banking. In light of JP Morgan’s announced “surprise $2Billion profit bust; soaked and also synthetic red ink, people are naturally worried about contagion and another bank … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Ben Aronson, Bruno Iskill, David Teniers, david teniers the younger, David Tenniers, Donald Trump, Eric Fischl, George Grosz, jamie dimon, joseph heath rebel sell, Joseph Schumpeter, JP Morgan bank, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Carney Bank of Canada, Mike Mayo CLSA, Mitt Romney 2012, volcker rule, Walter Benjamin, will hay ask a policeman
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the unexplained: Bacon’s believe it or rot
The Shakespeare hoax. The bard’s identity game is an old one. With Freud and Mark Twain even taking a kick at the can. James Hudson had a theory, plausible, in which Shakespeare was actually a woman, Amelia Bassano, a converso … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Amelia Bassano, Amelia Bassano Lanier, Dan Brown, david teniers the younger, edward de vere, james hudson shakespeare, james shapiro, Jonathan Kay national Post, Michael Posner Globe and Mail, Nicolas Poussin, orville ward owen, Sir Francis Bacon
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