To be clear, AI can drive scientific breakthroughs. My concern is about their magnitude and frequency. Has AI really shown enough potential to justify such a massive shift in talent,…
From 2017 to 2020 I took portraits of interesting characters on the streets of Venice Beach, Long Beach, Hollywood, and Anaheim, California. The work was motivated by my love of…
A couple of years ago I moved into a retirement village and had to do some serious downsizing. My shell collection went from five shelves to two, not counting the…
Wilson’s snipe, Gallinago delicata“Henlike dainty.” That’s the gist of your Latin name. I wonder: What’s your real name, the one your friends and family use? And what’s your secret name,…
Antoni Jażwiński’s Tableau Muet, based on the original “Polish System” for charting historical information, later revised in France and the United States, 1834 — Source. The Polish System — which…
Jennifer Ackerman on How Birds Adapt, Survive, and Think By Mark Leviton
“I think what you’re talking about is actually getting more to a gap in our ability to think beyond ourselves and our particular desires or interests, which is exactly why…
An art historian locates the political in paint
Ariana Reines’s art of anguished witnessing