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Type “da Vinci” into Google Image Search, and you get about 2,330,000 hits. “Michelangelo” yields about 650,000, and “Botticelli” about 70,000. But try “Nam June Paik”—one of the fathers of video art—and you find a measly 11,800 images, and only 50 video hits. Even with the emergence of potential resources such as YouTube, video art remains obscure for those not plugged in to the art world. E-Flux...
...what does the American public think of the unlikely Idol star? Of all of the searches for Sanjaya over the last four weeks, 41% were searching on variations of his name, "Sanjaya," or "Sanjaya Malakar," and various misspellings. At least 2.9% searched for information on Sanjaya's sister, who didn't make the cut on the show. The next most popular search topic regarded questions about Sanjaya's sexual orientation, with searches such as "Sanjaya Malakar gay," "Sanjaya gay" and "is Sanjaya gay?" What's missing are searches related to Sanjaya's musical selection or talent...
...line, "it follows that there's value in interpreting dreams," he says. They provide a "privileged, unfiltered access" to what's on a person's mind. Mark Blagrove, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Wales, where he runs a sleep laboratory, thinks it's possible the search for a biological function of dreaming could be futile. "It could just be," he says, "that our elaborate dreams are a side effect of the fact that we have a highly evolved imagination...
...wave of emigration. According to the Foreign Ministry, there has been a 40% increase in the number of those registering at French consulates abroad since 1995. People are leaving for all sorts of reasons, of course, ranging from greater opportunities to higher salaries, from romantic entanglements to the search for a foreign utopia that may not exist. Two people leave France every day for tax reasons alone, according to a recent Senate report. But for the most part, those leaving are not wealthy retirees looking for a place in the sun; they are talented and ambitious young people in their...
...search for the next coach of the Harvard men’s basketball team goes on.When Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise announced on March 5 head coach Frank Sullivan’s contract would not be renewed, he created a vacancy at that position for the first time in 16 years, when Sullivan was hired to replace Peter P. Roby. The job has been unfilled for almost a month now and it is unclear when a new coach will be brought in.According to sophomore forward Evan Harris, the new coach will be selected by a committee involving...