the art world doesn't quite know where to place me.
Ro.bert
Hey there,
Robert here.Here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌Some things I thought were worth sharing this week!
Follow the white rabbit 🐇....🎶 Something to listen while reading
Short & Neat 🧨
Snowball Fight(upscaled, colorized video from 1896!)
You can’t unlearn, and that’s a challenge for teachers
Electric shocks to the tongue can quiet chronic ringing ears
The Elusive Peril of Space Junk
Scientists Discover a Major Lasting Benefit of Growing Up Outside the City
Asking the Right Questions About AI: In July of 2015, when I was technical leader for Google’s social efforts (including photos), I received an urgent message from a colleague at Google: our photo indexing system had publicly described a picture of a Black man and his friend as “gorillas,” and he was — with good reason — furious.
Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning. Old technology finds a surprising new application. —“Why do you have captions on?” I asked.“It helps me with my ADHD: I can focus on the words, I catch things I missed, and I never have to go back,” she replied. “And I can text while I watch.”My multitasking daughter used to watch TV while working on her laptop and texting or FaceTiming on her phone. She kept rewinding the DVR to catch the last few minutes she’d missed because she either zoned out or was distracted by another screen. Her response turned out to be even more insightful than I realized at first. A number of mental health experts I spoke with — and even one study I found — supported the notion that watching with closed captioning serves a valuable role for those who struggle with focus and listening.
Scientism Schmientism! Why There Are No Other Ways of Knowing Apart from Science (Broadly Construed)
A better metaphor of human knowledge is that of a large web with many interconnected strands that mutually reinforce each other. The more connections, the more reliable our knowledge. The philosopher Susan Haack compares science to solving a crossword puzzle, in which vertical and horizontal answers intersect and strengthen one another. Naturally, if you want to solve such a puzzle, you have to start somewhere. But that doesn’t mean your first answer will be the “foundation” of all the others.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.”
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Currently studying Saul Steinberg, a Romanian American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as “a writer who draws”.
Steinberg’s long, multifaceted career encompassed works in many media and appeared in different contexts. In addition to magazine publications and gallery art, he produced advertising art, photoworks, textiles, stage sets, and murals. Given this many-leveled output, his work is difficult to position within the canons of postwar art history. He himself defined the problem: “I don’t quite belong to the art, cartoon or magazine world, so the art world doesn’t quite know where to place me.
People who try hard to win first and foremost make it uncomfortable when people are trying to just have a good time and do well. And this is aside from whether they’re assholes or not, unscrupulous or not. It’s about win first vs chill first. At some point, there’s always a conflict between the two types. Someone has to chill, someone has to turn up the intensity, or someone has to leave.
Omar Khayyam also came to the Vizier…but not to ask for title or office. ‘The greatest boon you can confer on me,’ he said, ‘is to let me live in a corner under the shadow of your fortune, to spread wide the advantages of Science, and pray for your long life and prosperity.’
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🧠 Tweets for thought
28/ So in summary: 1) no matter how you slice it, prescription of TRE is not a very effective weight loss strategy; 2) There was no advantage to TRE when compared to a proper control group; 3) What weight was lost looked to come more from muscle mass than fat mass
👽 My latest YouTube video essay
A Day in the Life of a Content Curator
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