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Holland Cotter on Slow Art
This essay by New York Times staff art critic, Holland Cotter, is a must-read for Slow Art fans. It’s an ode to the values of Slow Art, to the joy of “simply staying still” while viewing art and to “the universe you can inhabit, just by looking.”H… Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika – Book I List of Names
Athenian (mostly leaders, i.e. generals, admirals) Thymocares Alcibiades Thrasyllos Theramenes Thrasyboulos Eumachos Konon Diomedon Aristokrates Pericles Erasinides Protomachos Lysias Aristogenes Archedamos (a city leader at Athens) Timokrates Kal… Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika – Introductory Call audio recording
Here is the audio recording for Xenophon’s Hellenika January 2010 Introductory call (with special guest Robert Strassler). Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Continue reading
22 cities for Slow Art 2010 – help with cities not yet on the list?
We have 22 cities already lined up for Slow Art Day April 17, 2010. From Canberra, Australia to Copenhagen, Denmark and from Ashland, Oregon to Atlanta, Georgia from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Oceanside, California volunteers are hosting Slow Art.To see… Continue reading
Welcome to the Xenophon’s Hellenika reading group!
I am Andre Stipanovic and will be your moderator for the next 7 months as we discuss this great book, published in the Landmark series and edited by Robert Strassler. We are fortunate to have Robert Strassler himself join us on our first call sche… Continue reading
Happy New Year from Emily Dickinson
The most triumphant Bird I ever knew or met Embarked upon a twig today And till Dominion set I famish to behold so eminent a sight And sang for nothing scrutable But intimate Delight. Retired, and resumed his transitive Estate– To what delicious … Continue reading
Slow Art Literary Tour
Attached is the Slow Art Literary tour guide for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. This guide is not meant to be sold or used to raise money. Thanks to the Met for providing such a wonderful museum including the treasures in the Ancient Nea… Continue reading
Art Garfunkel is on a reading odyssey too
Art Garfunkel is on a reading odyssey too.If you are interested in what he has read, then you can visit his website where he’s posted the more than 1,000 books he’s read since 1968. You can browse year-by-year so you can see that in 1968 Art Garfu… Continue reading
Sean Carroll webcast
The full video from Professor Sean Carroll’s wonderful lecture, “Making of the Fittest”, for the Darwin150 fall 2009 lecture series is now available online.Please share this terrific lecture with colleagues, students, friends and family. Video: ht… Continue reading
Avatar is a biologist’s dream?
New York Times Science writer, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, argues in an essay in today’s New York Times Science Times that the blockbuster movie Avatar is a “biologist’s dream.”She says:Mr. Cameron somehow has the audience seeing organisms in the tropical-… Continue reading →
19. January 2010 by Arrian
Categories: Commentary, Darwin | Tags: Avatar, Biology, Darwin, Darwin Facebook project, James Cameron, Science Times | Comments Off on Avatar is a biologist’s dream?