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This impressed, on impressionable me, the great significance of knowledge and of context. The way one moves in historical spaces is different; one's affiliations, politics, interactions are different. The possibilities are ones of reaction and reassemblage in addition to mythic creation. There is a facility of interconnection: the continual...
Bush and Cheney won't even consider price caps in California; they'd prefer not to repeal the 18-percent gas tax because it probably wouldn't work (meaning, the 18 percent would go back into Big Oil's pockets). And most importantly, they'll never lift a finger to...
Recent studies of synesthetes who see colors in response to numbers and letters provide conflicting answers. Last year Mike Dixon of the University of Waterloo reported that merely imagining a number was enough to provoke synesthesia. And in March Australian researcher Jason Mattingley reported in Nature that the conscious recognition...
Not so, say Vilayanur Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard of the University of California at San Diego. Their studies take advantage of a perceptual quirk: when an image in the periphery of our visual field is surrounded by similarly shaped and colored images, the brain has trouble registering its presence--even...
All of Whitehead's main characters, starting but by no means ending with Sutter, are so hip and ironic and jaded that they can't imagine--indeed, they would be embarrassed by and scornful of--the meaning of the novel they inhabit. John Henry Days is a narrative tour de...