5/22/2023 0 Comments Figuring by maria popova reviews![]() Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement and the poet Emily Dickinson. ![]() Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists-mostly women, mostly queer-whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. ![]() ![]() Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries-beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Roadside picnic book![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Two-colour printing and McKean’s intricately drawn endpapers make this the ultimate collector’s edition for science-fiction aficionados.Īn edition limited to 600 hand-numbered copies is also available here.ĭave McKean has released 60 books as an illustrator, author, photographer and designer, including Cages (1990–6, winner of two Harvey Awards, the Ignatz Award, La Pantera Award, and the Alph-Art Award), Pictures That Tick (2009, V&A Illustrated Book of the Year), and Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash (2016, a 14–18 NOW Foundation/Imperial War Museum/LICAF commission). Seven colour illustrations by award-winning illustrator Dave McKean visualise the Strugatsky Brothers’ masterful storytelling with startling effect, while the binding is blocked in silver and gold foils. An unsettling and unforgettable world, the Strugatsky Brothers’ mind-bending novel is a hugely influential twist on a ‘first-contact’ story and was the inspiration for the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker.Įvery aspect of this remarkable edition radiates the shimmering, strangely compelling qualities of the Zones. These include dangerous but valuable artefacts and, despite the unimaginable terror of these toxic wastelands, stalker Redrick Schuhart feels compelled to keep coming back, his life dominated by the illegal trade in alien products. ![]() Years after the aliens have been and gone, six landing sites, or Zones, around the world still hold the mysterious remnants of the visitation. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Dan ariely book![]() ![]() ![]() Each of us can become more of a social scientist by being a bit more aware and a bit more thoughtful.īy Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons Read So there is an element of self-improvement in these books, but there’s also a fascination for its own sake about what’s going on around us. But the more we get into it, the more we realise how little we know about the things around us, which can include eating a bowl of soup or what’s happening to us at work. We used to think that the big mysteries in the universe are the stars, or maybe molecular biology – things that are outside our reach. Social science is incredibly interesting because it’s the science of everything we do. If we understand where things are going wrong, we can also figure out how we can fix them. Life has been designed around us in a way that is not necessarily the best way to maximise our health, our well-being or our prosperity. ![]() In my general approach to life, I think of myself as a social hacker. I was wondering, more broadly, what you are trying to get at with this choice of books?įor me, it’s very interesting to try to figure out where we go wrong. It’s fascinating how people behave in these experimental situations – whether they’re eating huge quantities of soup without realising it, or failing to see a gorilla. I have just read some of the behavioural economics books you’ve chosen, and I found them almost impossible to put down. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why does man seem to have many more diseases than animals have? Why does man hate and kill in war when animals do not? Why does cancer increase? Why are there so many suicides? So many insane sex crimes? Why the hate that is anti-Semitism? Why Negro hating and lynching? Why back-biting and spite? Why is sex obscene and a leering joke? Why is being a bastard a social disgrace? Why the continuance of religions that have long ago lost their love and hope and charity? Why, a thousand whys about our vaunted state of civilised eminence! If we feel like questioning today, we can pose a few awkward questions. ![]() ![]() New world wars threaten, for the world's social conscience is still primitive. The advances of the age are advances in mechanism – in radio and television, in electronics, in jet planes. Our boasted humanitarianism still allows public opinion to approve of the barbaric sport of hunting. Our religion has not abolished usury and robbery. Our medicines have not done away with disease. Our education, politics, and economics lead to war. Our culture has not been very successful. Education should be a preparation for life. I hold that the aim of life is to find happiness, which means to find interest. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Chinatown Beat by Henry Chang![]() ![]() Patrick Chen, Producer, Love Express, The Last Tip, AndLIFEĭave Chan, Producer, Sure-Fire, The BreakĬhristiane Seidel, Executive Producer, Boardwalk Empire, The Queen’s GambitĮddie Shieh, Executive Producer, Tu & Eu, Neuland: The Unknown Patrick Chen, Writer, Love Express, Underneath The Grey, The Last Tip Patrick Chen, Director, Love Express, The Last Tip, Confucius Plaza Amidst the broad distrust and racial divide between the Chinatown community and NYPD, our lone lawman searches for a nondescript immigrant family to deliver a shattering message that also brings forth his own conflicted relationship with Jack’s father. Set in the early ’90s when local street gangs terrorized Manhattan’s Chinatown, our story centers on Jack Yu investigating the murder of a teenage boy involved in a turf war. A story-spinoff based on author Henry Chang’s crime novel series of NYPD Detective Jack Yu. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood![]() It’s a magical eulogy to Shakespeare, leading the reader through a fantastical reworking of the original but infusing it with ironic nods to contemporary culture, thrilling to anyone who knows The Tempest intimately, but equally compelling to anyone not overly familiar with the work. The joy and hilarity of it just sing off the page. Set all that aside, though, as this is written with such gusto and mischief that it feels so much like something Atwood would have written anyway. It joins Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time ( The Winter’s Tale), Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name ( The Merchant of Venice) and Anne Tyler’s Vinegar Girl ( The Taming of the Shrew), with Tracy Chevalier’s Othello, Gillian Flynn’s Hamlet, Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth and Edward St Aubyn’s King Lear to come. ![]() ![]() This retelling of The Tempest is one of four novels so far released as part of Vintage’s Hogarth Shakespeare initiative. ![]() ![]() Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a mash-up of pop culture through time that reflects the moods of the eras it traverses - from Jane Austin to The Simpsons - and it's all set to a killer soundtrack! That said, the film is also careful not to dumb down the economics. ![]() never has economics been more entertaining. It doesn't reject capital, but instead calls for it to be tamed. The film is a call to rewire capitalism to produce fairer outcomes for the majority of the population. Already today the very wealthy are able to avoid paying taxes - just like the aristocracy of the past - and many use their wealth to distort democracy for their benefit. It's a world where social mobility is low and inheritance is king. The film is based on the best-selling book of the same name by French economist Thomas Piketty, who's research suggests we're trending back to a world resembling 18th Century style capitalism - where a small number of mega-rich own everything and the rest of us are forced to 'rent' our lives and where the middle-class shirks back to be almost as poor as the poorest. A memorising journey through time following the flow of wealth across centuries to give insight into where we might be heading. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Barriers to Love by Marina Peralta![]() Guess who contacted me? she asks and not waiting for a reply, Karla, my half-sister. I sink into a chair and grab the receiver. My daughter, Gabriela, usually calls in the evening. I should go inside, take off my sweaty clothes, and shower. The sweet-sour smell of physical exertion is on me. Another said, I can’t believe a woman your age can move like that. A girl asked if I was a professional dancer. ![]() Her Marina! brought me back to the reality of the studio and the other, younger students staring at me with something like awe. I didn’t stop until the teacher’s voice broke into my trance. Dancing is my way of praying, or a ritual cleansing after giving six hours of family therapy and listening to the problems of others. Entered another dimension and touched the infinite. For an hour I had kept the tempo-moving, twisting, swaying, bending, grinding, and kicking. My body vibrates, and the rhythm of funky jazz beats in my ear. ![]() I’m still high from the exhilaration of the dance. ![]() I turn off the lights, but I don’t get out. MAMI Barrier One Consequences of Past Actions San Diego, California July 2011 ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The unnamed midwife![]() nurse wakes from her sickness to a frightening reality. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has ravaged the world and unnamed (or multi-named – as you will understand as the story unfold) O.B. This is the setting for book 1 of The Road to Nowhere series, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison. ![]() Where the number of remaining males eclipses the number of females, a horribly dangerous environment for the women. The thought of waking up to a world, where everything you know and everyone that you love is gone, has to top my list of nightmare scenarios, especially when what is left is the worst of humanity the evil and moral depravity that is usually buried deep but is now walking the deserted streets of every nation. ![]() “Went to sleep and the world was dying…woke up and it was dead and gone.” ![]() ![]() Scott Westerfeld’s series Uglies, Pretties, Specials and Extras builds a futuristic world we can recognize as not to distant from our own. Good science fiction includes imaginative world building in addition to a quality plot. Enjoy some light reading over the holidays. If you enjoyed reading the Hunger Games, you should appreciate this series as well. Here is one selection with a new twist on an old theme. In a previous CFM Blog post we were encouraged to read more science fiction. Kat is a not-so-closeted sci-fi fan who offered to contribute to Futurist Friday from her reading list of favorites. This week’s guest post is by Kat Burkhart, executive director and curator of the Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County. “The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”-Frank Herbert Ethics, Standards, and Professional PracticesĮlizabeth Merritt, Founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums.Ethics, Standards and Professional Practices.Facing Change: Advancing Board Diversity.COVID-19 Resources & Information for the Museum Field. ![]() |