Tag Archives: Raden Saleh

darwin: doubting the fixity of species

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Dave

…The folklore of scientific invention and discovery has left no striking tale of the revelation to Darwin of the clue of the origin of species, like Newton’s apple, Stephenson’s kettle lid, or Galileo dropping weights from the leaning tower of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, Frans Snyders, George Eliot, J. B. Lamarck, John Bowlby, Joseph Hooker, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Bayle, Raden Saleh, Roelandt Jacobszoon Savery | Leave a comment

today’s menu

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Dave

“Following the Equator”. It was a book, a travelogue by Mark twain at the turn of the century that by today’s standards is pretty mediocre but it contained one jewel of an idea that almost redeemed it: That is, that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Brian Kenney Harvard, Harvard Business School, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Mark Twain, Marty Feldman, Raden Saleh | Leave a comment

stuck in the in-between space

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Dave

Clearly, the kind of virulent Arab anti-Semitism, or rather anti-Israel easily spilling, absurdly, into a kind of biological racism is not endemic to the Arab world in the same way that characterized the Jewish experience in Europe from east to … Continue reading →