In an article published September 13, 2019 on ESPN.com, international sports writer Aishwarya Kumar detailed an intriguing fact from the world of high-level chess: during competition, players were burning tremendous levels of calories and routinely losing weight. Strange as it may seem (since it appears for all observers to be a relatively sedentary endeavor) the physiological response to chess tournament… Read more →
In 1921 the psychologist Wolfgang Köhler published Intelligenzprüfungen an Menschenaffen (The Mentality of Apes), a book summarizing his work studying intelligent behavior in anthropoid apes. It was an important milestone in the field of comparative psychology, and the book helped establish Köhler as among the most influential psychologists of his day. The studies he conducted were designed to answer whether… Read more →
Inevitably someone always asks, “what kind of artist are you?” I find this a difficult question to answer. More precisely, I find it difficult to discern the kind of answer the person is looking to hear. Most people, when asking a question of that sort, are actually asking, “what subject matter do you focus on?” or “what medium do you… Read more →
The Greater Sage-Grouse are upland birds unique to North America, known for their elaborate mating dances and entirely dependent on sagebrush for survival. Due to the “loss and fragmentation” of its sagebrush habitat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined in 2010 that the greater sage-grouse was warranted for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The sagebrush ecosystem supports a… Read more →
The eye, the organ by which the world is seen, has long held an elevated place in collective mythology. Recall the eye of Horus, commonly represented with a spiraling line below it like that of a hawk, who soars above all and sees all. In some spiritual traditions such as Hinduism, the eye (known also as the third-eye) represents the… Read more →
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. -President John F. Kennedy Having the freedom to create is harder than you think. It’s not as… Read more →