As Tim Burton’s take on the story consumes moviegoers across the world, it seems a good opportunity to read a letter or two from the original creator of Alice in Wonderland: Charles Dodgson.
If anyone is going to save the media, as a business, it’s probably Jeff Jarvis. He recently gave a talk at TEDxNYED (a conference that runs with the TED format but is not associated with it) that’s very interesting from the perspective of building a resilient society (one that runs in parallel to the current broken system and displaces it). Here are some highlights:
Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director at Orbit Books, recently posted this entertaining “Making of the Cover Video” for Gail Carriger’s Blameless (released in the fall) to the Orbit blog:
About a hundred years ago, public health took a visual turn. In an era of devastating epidemic and endemic infectious disease, health professionals began to organize coordinated campaigns that sought to mobilize public action through eye-catching wall posters, illustrated pamphlets, motion pictures, and glass slide projections…
Determinism is the view that every event, including human cognition, behavior, decision, and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.[1] Determinists believe the universe is fully governed by causal laws resulting in only one possible state at any point in time. With numerous historical debates, many varieties and philosophical positions on the subject of determinism exist, most prominently the debate involving compatibilism and incompatibilism. Determinism should not be confused with predeterminism, which specifically factors the existence of God into its tenets
The new brand for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games was launched this morning. With studios in Glasgow, London and New York, Marque was the agency chosen to deliver the brand.
Aristotle uses the term cause (Greek αἴτιον, aition)[1] to mean an explanation for how a thing came about;[2]“x is the αἴτιον of y” means “x makes a y”. Aristotle argues in the Metaphysics that these “causes” are of four kinds:
- A thing’s material cause is the material it consists of. (For a table, that might be wood; for a statue, that might be bronze or marble.)
- A thing’s formal cause is its form, i.e. shape.
- A thing’s efficient cause is what is generally meant by the English word “cause”. (For a table, that might be a carpenter.)
- A thing’s final cause is the purpose it will be used for. (For a table, that might be a desk, altar, decorative console, etc.)
It’s nice that
I love Stuart’s paintings. He is able to capture so many emotions in one moment, there are so many possible stories to be drawn from this painting, Teardops In My Heart.
Franz Stuck - Lucifer, c. 1890
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