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Postings from the interface of science and culture
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Three colours: Yellow
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Jan van Huysum’s Flowers in a Terracotta Vase (1736) is a riot of floral colour, the equal of anything else by the Dutch flower painters of...
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Friday, April 17, 2020
Three colours: Blue
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This is the second of theree essays on colour commissioned for the catalogue of a now-cancelled exhibition on colour at the Musée d’Orsay in...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
Three colours: Red
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This is the first of three essays on colours that were to be included in the catalogue for an exhibition at the Musé d'Orsay in Paris th...
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
How you hear the words of songs
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This is my latest column for the Italian science magazine Sapere . ________________________________________________________________ ...
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Sunday, January 05, 2020
Was Dracula gay?
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The mostly rather splendid adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula just screened by the BBC prompts me to post here this short edited extract ...
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Sunday, December 29, 2019
Rise of the vacuum airship
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Sorry folks, I had to take the full story down - it violates New Scientist's rights agreement, which was entirely my oversight. The publ...
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Thursday, November 07, 2019
The City is the City
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My brief from the wonderfully named Dream Adoption Society of the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw – for their 2019 exhibition...
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