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...example, a large part of our visual system is color-blind—the parts that are evolutionarily older and are engaged in detecting motion and separation between figure and background, while the more primate-specific areas are color-selective, says Livingstone...
...against this background that Austerlitz realizes “that all my life had been a constant process of obliteration, a turning away from myself and the world,” and undergoes his journey through Europe: travelling from the Czech Republic to England via Germany by train, tracing the route of the Kinder-transport which spirited him from Prague as a five-year old boy in 1939. After learning that his mother was interred at a camp in Terezín in 1942, he visits the town’s Ghetto Museum, and is henceforth tormented by images...
...Facebook group was created encouraging Hopkins’ students to wear their own school apparel and to walk in the background of the filming...
...Over here is my official portrait with the American flag in the background, and here we have a photograph of President Bush and I in the Air Force One.” Impressive.When asked if he has any favorite books, Mankiw replies “Besides my own? (laughs) I have some collections of some old Economic texts. I’m not particularly a collector of objects, but here we have some Alfred Marshall and some other famous 19th and 20th century economists...
White was selected to speak because of his three decade-long background advising both non-governmental organizations and corporations, Rozensher added...