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...decade that followed, Renoir became one of the movement's first apostates. Impressionism affected many people in the 19th century in much the way the Internet does now. It both charmed and unnerved them. It brought to painting a novel immediacy, but it also gave back a world that felt weightless and unstable. What we now call post-Impressionism was the inevitable by-product of that anxiety. Artists like Seurat and Gauguin searched for an art that owed nothing to the stale models of academicism but possessed the substance and authority that Impressionism had let fall away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Vie en Rose | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...people using social-networking sites makes it difficult to monitor misuse, both for law-enforcement officials and site administrators. Sparapani estimates that Facebook users spend 18 billion minutes on the site each day. "We have 400 million active users and a tiny, tiny staff. We need to find novel ways to handle that kind of crushing amount of activity. It's the burden of being so immensely popular," he says. Richard Allan, the Dublin-based director of policy for Facebook Europe, says an open dialogue between social-networking sites and police is key to stopping abuse. "The Ministry of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Prisoners Harass Their Victims Using Facebook | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...crowd of about a hundred attended “Mind-Body Problems: Science, Fiction, and God,” which centered around the release of Goldstein’s newest novel, “36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.” According to Pinker and Goldstein, the novel straddles both sides of the argument on God’s existence, creating a holistic approach to the question of whether religion is necessary in order to have morality...

Author: By Victoria L. Venegas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pinker and Goldstein Challenge Religion | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

According to Pinker, both he and his wife are atheists and also believe in morality. The core of last night’s discussion, as well as the argument of Goldstein’s novel, is an effort to dismantle the idea that morality stems from religion and that without religion, there is no morality...

Author: By Victoria L. Venegas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pinker and Goldstein Challenge Religion | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

When correcting government deficits, politicians sometimes propose imprudent measures in an effort to be novel and innovative. Faced with the task of closing Utah’s $700 million budget gap, State Senator Chris Buttars has introduced a plan that would save the state up to $60 million by making 12th grade optional and offering incentives to students who graduate early. By making the final year discretionary, this proposition sends the wrong message to citizens about the value of schooling...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Stay in School | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

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