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...said there was no soul; the mind was just chemistry," says Thurman. "The Buddha disagreed with their extreme materialism but also rejected the 'absolute soul' theologians." Michael Persinger, professor of behavioral neuroscience at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., puts the chemistry argument more bluntly. "God," he says, "is an artifact of the brain...
...marketability of art itself arrived with the advent of print. It became for the first time a potentially infinite set of representative objects, not just a single “true” artifact. Print was the great democratizer of the art world. No longer was art’s importance based on the Grand Tourism of those affluent enough to make the pilgrimage to the sites of culture in Europe. Suddenly, people who might have been lucky enough to hear of art, to read descriptions of the Louvre, could now from provincial distance actually observe the works...
...nearly 60 years after that, Heye bought just about every Indian artifact he could get his hands on--Kwakiutl doorposts, Mayan jade idols, Lenape wampum belts, Nootka whaleboats, plus every kind of headdress, breastplate and beaded skirt. You can see why he was once described as a man who "felt that he couldn't conscientiously leave a reservation until its entire population was practically naked." By the time he died, in 1957, he had amassed about 800,000 items and opened an overburdened private museum in Manhattan...
Shadow Divers becomes an underwater detective story. The divers go to excruciating lengths to recover any artifact--a shoe, a plaque, a table knife with a name scratched in it--that might yield the secret of the sub's demise. It's also a midlife-crisis fable about a bunch of ordinary Joes in their 30s and 40s looking for something other than their crumbling marriages and pedestrian day jobs to give their lives meaning and focus. They just happen to find it at the bottom of the ocean...
There's mostly an unconscious habit of assuming that what boys, young men and men do is simply more important than what girls do. It's a historical artifact, part of the culture. It occurs from kindergarten right through the work situation...