Click Here to Read: Culinary Mindfulness And The Complexity Of Change: How To Get Started by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on June 20, 2013 .
The Star Royal Summer Palace in Prague
Click Here to Read: The Star Royal Summer Palace in Prague (Letohradek Hvezda) on the Universetopia website.
The Star (Hvezda) Royal Summer Palace in Prague belongs to those rare buildings the primary purpose of” which was not purely utilitarian, as its location, layout and the surviving interior decorations reveal.
Standing in the quicksand of other people’s lives
Click Here to Read: Standing in the quicksand of other people’s lives, Review of Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm, Reviewed by Don Anderson on the Brisbane Times website on June 22, 2013.
Click Here to Read: Their Own Petard: Review of ‘Forty-One False Starts’ on this website.
Janet Malcolm has firm views on biography. Photo: Nina Subin
Object “AAAH” With Manya Steinkoler at Après-Coup
Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Friday, June 28, 2013, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
OBJECT “AAAH”: THE INVENTION OF THE OPERATIC VOICE, Visiting Speaker
MANYA STEINKOLER
It is not by chance that the operatic voice was a Renaissance invention, historically close to that of perspective, i.e. represented space. Singing, like painting, was formalized, “naturalized” along definite principles—principles of relevance to Lacan’s object a and his later work on the infinite line. Continue reading Object “AAAH” With Manya Steinkoler at Après-Coup
Home to one Jew, Harbin Synagogue to be renovated
Click Here to Read: Home to one Jew, Harbin Synagogue to be renovated A new tourism scheme by the Chinese government sets its eyes — and its funds — on an area once home to 23,000 Jews including a former PM’s grandparents By By Erica Lyons in The Times of Israel on June 22, 2013.
A postcard of Harbin’s Old Synagogue (photo credit: courtesy Dan Ben-Canaan)
A zap to the brain makes you think people are more attractive
Click Here to Read: A zap to the brain makes you think people are more attractive by Meghan Holohan on NBC News website on June 21, 2013.
Most of us can’t actually be as attractive as professional good-looking people like Kate Upton. But new research shows that an electrical shock to the brain can make people perceive other people to be more attractive. The research may one day point toward new treatments for neurological disorders like depression or Parkinson’s.
