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...sciences should play in the expansive field of art history. While Cavanagh maintains that an understanding of human visual perception is helpful and informative in—if not essential to—the study of art, Livingstone understands that barriers do exist. While some scientific developments, like fractal analysis, have already swept the world of art history, she claims, others may not be accepted so easily by art historians. “Anything innovative takes time to be understood by the establishment, especially if it takes them outside their areas of expertise and comfort,” she writes...
Second, scientists observed that DNA was compressed into an architecture called a “fractal globule?...
...before. If you'd asked one hundred Sex Pistols/Ramones wannabes how F-Bb-Ab resolves, one hundred of them would've told you it goes to C, duh. Kurt knocked the world on its ass by choosing Db instead. Turn up "Teen Spirit" even louder and the noise goes fractal, exposing the overdubs and high production values, and revealing the apotheosis of punk-rock authenticity as a magnificent simulation - better than the real thing could ever...
...misnomer, actually, to call Lost one of TV's best shows. It's a fine show on the level of character and writing, but what makes it a classic is that it's the finest interactive game ever to appear in your living room once a week. An elaborate fractal pattern of intersecting stories concerning plane survivors on a not-quite-deserted island, a secretive international organization and a monster made of smoke--Lost only begins with the 60 minutes you see on TV. Its mysteries, clues and literary-historical allusions demand research, repeated viewing, freeze-framing and endless online...
...Polar Arctic levels of chilling out are available from Tacchini's fluidly flexible Polar seating system, designed by London company PearsonLloyd. Seats and armrests can be configured in six different setups, so there's always a new angle to admire. Inspired by "the shearing planes and fractal quality" of ice floes, this Polar expedition makes an ideal base camp at a party. www.tacchini.it