An amazing confirmation of chimpanzee consciousness: Zoo chimp “planned” attacks
The implication is that chimps (and probably other apes, by extension) have enough consciousness to plan for future needs and solve problems, which hadn’t been observed outside of laboratory conditions before. It’s kind of a “duh” conclusion–it seems pretty obvious–but it’s great to have some scientific [...]
A short history of Daylight Savings Time, from the WaPo.
This past Monday was the 50th anniversary of the first recording sessions for Miles Davis’s masterpiece Kind of Blue.
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There is a Japanese art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous. He must paint on a special parchment, with a special brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or [...]
The Federal Music Project was a short-lived (1935-41) US federal work project under the umbrella of Federal Project Number One. At the program’s height the project employed 16,000 musicians who gave lessons to children in rural and urban areas, transcribed/recorded folk songs for archival purposes, and performed in thousands of concerts (34 new orchestras [...]
An amazing photo gallery: Ninety Years of Bauhaus
The Bauhaus photo pool on Flickr
The Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin