Frank Gehry: The Liberator

Martin Filler at the NYRB: The great liberator of late-twentieth-century architecture, Gehry was a latter-day Alexander who sliced through the Gordian Knot formed by an exhausted Modernism intertwined

People Look at Art or Art Looks at People

My favorite photos from museums contain folks for scale and context. Anton Repponen shares a collection of such images and they’re delightful. (His name sounded familiar and now I recall enjoying his

The Year in Biology

Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution and the dense neural networks of brains and AIs. The post

The Root Causes of Senseless Violence

Ivana Hughes in Common Dreams: I write this from the front of a Columbia classroom in which about 60 first-year college students are taking the final exam for Frontiers of Science. Yes, it’s a Sunday,

"Charlie, we hardly knew ya"

The assassin didn't miss, but the American so-called 'right' seems intent on it - On political radicalization, Weimar Germany's Radical Right Wing, Spain on the eve of its civil war, etc.

Links 12/15/2025

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The United States Is Tearing the West Apart

by Bill Murray One Monday in 1883 Southeast Asia woke to “the firing of heavy guns” heard from Batavia to Alice Springs to Singapore, and maybe as far as Mauritius, near Africa. “So violent are the ex

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