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...during which each participant was given a handful of clay and asked to make twelve pebbles, harkening back to man’s first playthings. Subsequently laid out against a blue cloth, they created a clay cosmos, around which the group performed a Greek circle-dance. Drawing upon scientific theories of both the Big Bang and the Gaia Hypothesis, Berensohn emphasized the idea that art precedes science in his impromptu dissertations on topics like the Bible, our existence as “terraqueous beings,” and the living goddess that is the Earth.“Clay...
...evolution toward a new world without ills or faults. This trend, Gray claims, is both utopian and apocalyptic. Gray traces the origin of utopian ideals to Jesus’ apocalyptic anticipation of a new kingdom where all evil is eliminated. Gray convincingly asserts that early Christianity was founded upon efforts to make up for Jesus’ failure to fulfill his promise of a Second Coming. As Christianity’s influence declined, Enlightenment thinkers picked up the apocalyptic idea of a perfect end in sight, but discarded God’s role in transforming society and handed humans...
...highly recommend interning in a theater and to become involved in technical theater,” which mirrors her own experiences.Evans’ latest play, “Weightless,” was inspired by her experience of relocating to the United States. “Immediately upon coming here, I noticed that my country vanished off the map. All the pegs that anchored my culture and my history were gone,” she says. “I felt that I was coming adrift from my cultural mooring, which created an intense sense of vertigo...
...engaging the public in research—my own agenda is to bring in the visual, which is a common language that goes beyond background and education. Frankel sports a long list of grants and fellowships from groups such as the National Science Foundation and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Upon seeing her work, this variety is understandable: She captures science in such an aesthetically moving way that it is difficult, if even possible, to distinguish her scientific photographs from works of art. I feel that it is really important to clarify that I do not consider myself an artist...
Dark days are upon us in the world of sports. With new drug busts every month from Belgium to China to Baltimore, large investigations finally coming to a head, and new names leaking out seemingly every week, there are certainly some very sweaty brows forming on some very nervous athletes. The annoying background noise that was performance enhancement drug (PED) use in sports has now become a deafening roar...