Posts Tagged ‘Science’

“A” is a pretty shade of pink

Magazine -> #29 What's your colour?

Soft words, cold colours and bitter winds. These are all examples of synesthesia, from the Greek words syn (union) and aisthesis (sensation), and they describe the links between things from different sensory areas. The decadent poets of the nineteenth century thought of synesthesia as nothing less than an artistic manifesto. In the twentieth centu...

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God does not throw dices

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

To Greek philosophers the concepts of “world” and “order” were synonymous. To our contemporaries the world is more akin to chaos. Art has sought order in disorder, disorder in order, sometimes managing to find a balance between the two. By Angela Vettese, art reviewer and critic. Albert Einstein’s contention was that God doesn’t thro...

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Art T-Eco

Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecology

Rather than being a metaphysical entity, a brain is first and foremost a local aggregate of matter, a knot of interwoven and interlinked neurons acting as pathways for chemicals and electrical charges to travel down and along. Scientists are no longer that sure that it works on a rigidly sectional basis, even though they admit that it’s made u...

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Research between man and business

Magazine -> #4 Passion

Vega, the science and technology park, provides potential national and international investors in Venice with the necessary support, fostering collaboration between economic operators and encouraging innovative firms to set up their main offices in the historic center of Venice and in the nearby mainland. Is research addressed to people or busin...

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Highway robbery

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

Time and rhythm are an integral part of modern life and they can be experienced either as incentives to improve or as reasons for dissatisfaction. Today, our attention is turned to the well being of our social system: there is clear evidence of this in science, technology and culture, but the objective is not always attained in a harmonised and hom...

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Thank goodness for complexity!

Magazine -> #7 Chaos

Francesco Di Lauro talks with  Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...

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Sense and sensibility in a hegelian sauce

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

Many years ago while visiting the Picasso Museum in Barcelona I was struck by the comment of a young graduate friend who was later to become an art historian. After having discussed with me the salient features of cubism she rather abruptly concluded: «And to think that this idea that went into the making of the most sign...

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#7 Chaos

#7 Chaos -> Magazine

Whenever I think of the word “chaos” the first thing that springs to mind is when I can’t find a document in my office, or the car keys at home. But no sooner do they turn up that I’m already telling myself that after all my disorder is only a very idiosyncratic sort of order. In ancient Greek philosophy Chaos was used to refer to the disor...

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