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11-30-2004 New Links Articles "The more we see of childhood in the arts, paradoxically, the deeper its mysteries may become. It's the tunnel we all pass through, those early years of wandering toward the light as we dream ourselves up. It forms us; it makes us who we are. And once we've left the tunnel, we begin to forget, lose what we knew and felt back there and peer longingly behind us into its deep, plush darkness." Go to story "We've all had recourse to say: 'My head tells me to do one thing, but my heart says do the other.' Sometimes we are forced to make a decision but we feel ourselves to be pulled in opposite directions by reason and emotion. "Thanks to an innovation that has transformed the study of the mind, scientists are now able to see precisely what happens in the brain in situations like this. For the first time in history we are getting close to answering the question of whether the heart rules the head." Go to story "Bent over books once held by Goethe and Schiller, workers in white lab coats brush away ash and creeping mold, doing their best to salvage the centuries-old victims of a recent fire that devastated one of Germany's cultural treasures." Go to story "1984 can be read as a warning about the failings of mass democracies, especially in wartime. Witness America." Go to story "Scholars have had their suspicions that the painting of Madonna and child credited to the Italian Renaissance master Pietro Perugino wasn't really done by him alone. But they could never be sure. "Now, a new set of software tools, developed by a Dartmouth College team, seems to confirm the art historians' doubts, showing evidence of at least four different painters working on the canvas. The programs' makers hope this will be the first in a long line of art authentication mysteries they can help put to rest, with code that can sort out real from fake." Go to story "Found or collage poems underline the truism that all writing depends on other writing: a poem may aspire to stand alone, but any piece of writing presented as a poem inevitably triggers the reader’s assumptions about what kinds of thing a poem should be or do, which it confirms or modifies or challenges or refutes." Go to story "Here is a nagging puzzle for anyone bothered about British awareness of science. In February 2001, an editorial in Scientific American addressed the subject of the public understanding of quantum physics, and its misunderstanding of quantum leaps and the uncertainty principle. It mentioned, approvingly, Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, and it made mention of the concept of parallel worlds and the way this concept framed 'what if' fantasies such as Sliding Doors, the movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow. And then it added in a throwaway sentence: 'But does that make Rashomon about relativity?' " The puzzle is this: why does the editor-in-chief of a scientific magazine believe he has only to name the title of a black-and-white movie made in Japan in 1950, and shown in the west only with subtitles, and everybody will instantly know what he means?" Go to story "Martin is the president of Randolph-Macon College, an 1,100-student school in the Virginia town of Ashland. This fall, he is reading Plato and Homer as a student with freshman status at St. John's, the liberal arts college known for its Great Books curriculum." Go to story
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