This is where I will share the daily influences, such as artists, authors, websites, breaking science news, etc., etc.
Daily Influences
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Galleries
- Semantics Gallery Say Hi to Larry for me!
Wize Designs
Arts & Letters Daily
- Arts & Letters Daily (18 May 2012) May 18, 2012Mixing perfumes, or "layering" them, as it's said, is like going crazy with pizza toppings-you, of course, being the pizza...more An absence of polish is what leaves the sense that Susan Sontag was not so much writing a journal as observing herself writing a journal... more Abstruse paper is published in scholarly journal. PR guy runs headlong […]
Communication Arts
- A Multimodal Analysis of Differences Between TV Commercials and Press Advertisements: A Discoursal Study of Persuasion-Seeking Strategies in the Mass Media.Studies in Literature & Language; 04/30/2012 (AN 75143973) Communication & Mass Media Complete […]
Art 21
- Eyes in the Sky May 18, 2012John P. Hogan previews KNOWLEDGES, a two day art event to be held at LA's historic Mount Wilson Observatory this June. […]John Hogan
- Gastro-Vision | From Seeds to Sprouts, Greens Across Manhattan May 18, 2012Nicole Caruth looks at current projects by Rob Carter and Jenna Spevack that re-imagine the possibilities of farming and food production. […]Nicole Caruth
- Ian Svenonius: A God Among Undergrads May 17, 2012John Hogan looks at the lasting influence of writer and rock musician Ian Svenonius, a prominent member of the bands The Make Up and Nation of Ulysses. […]John Hogan
High Fructose
- What we teach children about police May 18, 2012"Someone is causing a lot of trouble." Josh Stearns, a reporter who has covered the Occupy movement extensively, asks, "Why is this children's book teaching my kid about SWAT vehicles and Riot Control practices?" From his blog post: Visiting the local library yesterday my son picked out a book all about police. I was stunned […]Xeni Jardin
- Associate editor of Elsevier's Genomics resigns, vows to devote energies to open access May 18, 2012Winston Hide, is an associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was also -- until recently -- the associate editor of the prestigious (and expensive!) Elsevier journal Genomics. In a column in The Guardian, he explains why he resigned from Genomics: people are dying because scientists in […]Cory Doctorow
- Judge suspends US law that provided for indefinite detention without trial May 18, 2012U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued a preliminary injunction against the clause in the National Defense Authorization Act that gave the administration the power to arrest people and hold them indefinitely, without a trial, if they were believed to support terrorism. She dismissed the government's arguments in support of the clause (NDAA §10 […]Cory Doctorow