Tag Archives: science

Flat (Architecture)

Posted on May 16, 2012 by zjb

(Time Warner and Trump International Hotel at 59th St. Viewed from across Sheep’s Meadow, Central Park) I like the super flat appearance of these 3 otherwise hideous buildings. One is nestled into the matching two others.  Maybe theoretical physicist Brian Greene … Continue reading →

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SpaceX (The Final Frontier: Big Science – Big Money)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by zjb

  Like in a bad science fiction, private corporations with names like XCOR, Virgin Galactic, Space Adventurs, SpaceX are planning to finance commercial space travel and other entrepreneurial interests. You can read about it at in this week’s Science Times … Continue reading →

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Big Data, Big Science, Market

Posted on February 19, 2012 by zjb

Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent (1999)  http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2001/gursky/99cent_pop.html I spent a good part of the day thinking about the New York Times Sunday Magazine article about how Target identifies and targets pregnant women in their second trimester based on purchase patterns. Lots … Continue reading →

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Big Data (Digital Scholars)

Posted on February 12, 2012 by zjb

(image by Chad Hagen) (Wassily Kandinsky, Composition 8) The illustration in the New York Times Sunday Review for an article on “The Age of Big Data” caught my eye. It immediately reminded me of Kandinsky’s Composition 8. Which means to … Continue reading →

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“I Am Not a Gadget”

Posted on February 9, 2012 by zjb

[[Cy Twombly, Roman Notes (1970)]] Woke up this morning with my brain all click-clack from too much computer time last night trying to fine tune Jewish Philosophy Place (JPP) and setting up links to Facebook.  All of this seems apropos … Continue reading →

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