Category Archive: Big Ideas
A Visit to the Virtual Versailles
Did you ever fantasize that the watchman would forget about you and that somehow you’d get to stay on in the museum all alone after closing time? That’s what it feels like virtually prowling through the emptied museum galleries included…
Endings and Beginnings
Just a quick thought on the month of January, named for the two-faced Roman god Janus, who could peer into the future and see into the past at the same time. Who better to represent the New Year? Appropriately enough,…
Birthday Bounty
I was reading this morning about the ancient Indian kings who had themselves weighed on a pair of giant golden scales on their birthdays. They sat down cross-legged on one side of the scales, and on the other side courtiers…
Birds on a Wire
A pretty musical piece, price by Brazilian artist Jarbas Agnelli, was created when he saw this photo of birds in a local newspaper and created a song based on the exact position of the birds on their wire perches. I think…
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