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...Wheelers at the MIND (for Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders) Institute at the University of California at Davis, where they arrived with Max, now 7, his brother Brockton, 10, and Cari's parents Mary and Gary Boyer. It was one of many visits for the Wheeler-Boyer clan. Max raced around a visitors' room, occasionally hugging his mom and trying to pull his beloved granddad up from his chair. Mildly autistic and mildly retarded, Max doesn't speak much, and he didn't respond to my overtures. In addition, Max suffers from hyperactivity, low muscle tone, gastrointestinal problems...
...Alongside them are hundreds of pieces taken from museums, galleries, libraries, archaeological sites and private homes: paintings by Renoir and Courbet, sculptures by Rodin, lamps by Le Corbusier, 2,300-year-old Italian vases, centuries-old manuscripts, 19th century Cartel clocks. "We've got everything," says Captain Jean-Luc Boyer...
France's art squad is dedicated and well trained, and has access to leading experts and all the high-tech gadgetry a cop could want. Ask Boyer to show you his team's most effective weapon against art crime, and he'll sit you down in front of a computer. The Thésaurus de Recherche Electronique et d'Imagerie en Matière Artistique (Electronic Research and Image Thesaurus for Artistic Material), a.k.a TREIMA, is the OCBC's stolen-art database, one of only two national databases like it in the world. Italy has one, called Leonardo; other countries...
...TREIMA's real trick is its ability to run visual searches, too. If the police are lucky enough to have a picture of the item, the database will use image-recognition software to look for a match. To demonstrate, Boyer clicks on a JPEG of a sculpture of three cherubs that was stolen from a church a few years ago, then drags it into TREIMA. Almost instantly, the software finds a match with another photo of the same sculpture, taken from a different angle, in different light. "It's incredible," Boyer marvels...
...aspects of religion. There is deep engagement with both scientific method and religious traditions, and despite the fact that many of the scholars in the cognitive science of religion field differ widely in their worldviews, dialogue has been extremely fruitful. Drs. Scott Atran, Harvey Whitehouse, Justin Barrett, and Pascal Boyer are just a few notable scholars in the field whose works provide a good introduction this discipline which, on scientific grounds, takes seriously and has respect for the phenomenon of religious belief...