Can Art Be Quantified?
When we have a national discourse about money and Art and the role of the artist in society, we are left with a massive hole of misunderstanding that cannot yet be bridged: You Cannot Quantify Art.
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The Art and Science of a Sencha Shot
I have previously confessed in the public square that I have an Ito En green tea addiction. Today, I am pleased to also confess, I am now addicted to Ito En’s most delicious green tea yet: The Sencha Shot!
The Decider Versus the Provider
Yesterday, Barack Obama put right a government policy Dubya set religiously wrong: Obama guaranteed a “return to scientific integrity” and instantly became “The Provider” of doing the right thing for the future good of us all.
Monks in Science!
How do Tibetan monks learn science? They invite the best Bay Area scientists to join them in Sarna on the northern tip of India in order to learn how the scientific method works.
Science and Entertainment Exchange
Scientific Aesthetic has been singing along online in one form or another for at least five years — and the founding of the Science and Entertainment Exchange confirms the validity and sanctity of the ideas that drive us.
No Religion in the Godless Nanotech
As medicine and science converge to reveal the artistic, human, need to argue faith over facts, a tussle has broken out between the faithful and the scientific and medical communities. It seems, the argument goes, that nanotechnology — because it is so tiny and creative — is Godless, and that is unacceptable to those that believe in a Creator.
The New Barack is Blue
Barack Obama turned the world Blue. Red Republicans claim there is no Obama mandate, but we who won the world — know the United States is forever changed — but how can we semiotically prove the provenance of the Blue Mandate?
Our Moral Genetic Code: Religious Transcendentalism and Scientific Empiricism
In a fascinating essay published in The Atlantic in 1998, Edward O. Wilson digs into us to try to understand — The Biological Basis of Morality — and he leavens our understanding of faith and facts by pitting religious transcendentalism against scientific empiricism. Wilson argues, in a thought-provoking and wide-ranging article, that the fate of the human condition rests in tempering a harmony between those opposite, and irreconcilable, philosophies.
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Taste Bud Chemistry
Our tongues are being taken over by chemicals to invoke, for false profit, the taste and the memory of foods that no longer exist. This fooling of the taste buds — this mocking of experience with lies — provides us a context that crumbles in ignition and a present that only mirrors the past instead of finding reflexively inspired knowing.
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