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Leonardo Reviews Posted December 2011

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the December 2011 postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN:  1559-0429) The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World by David Deutsch Reviewed by Richard Kade Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing by Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell Reviewed by John Vines Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience by [...]

Article: Fish known as wrasses are found to use tools

Giacomo Bernardi, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, reports that on a recent diving expedition to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef he discovered and filmed a wrasse, called an orange dotted tusk fish, using an underwater rock as an anvil to smash a clam’s shell and allow it to devour the flesh inside. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/28/BASB1LAPG2.DTL#ixzz1ZMnMb8kh ==> [...]

Now Available: MISH MASH: Issue 1 of the all-new Leonardo Electronic Almanac

MISH MASH, Issue 1 of the all-new Leonardo Electronic Almanac is now available as a free PDF. With this re-launch the editors are working on implementing availability on a wide range of digital platforms. The issues are published online but will also be rolled out on a series of e-publishing platforms ranging from Print on [...]

Recently published: Multiple Discovery article

Multiple discovery is the technical concept used to explain the difficulty in assigning independent priority when two or more scientists or inventors give expression to a similar theory, form, model, or invention. My updated article on this subject was recently published in the edition of the Encyclopedia of Creativity.  Please email me for a pdf of the article.

Review: East Bay Open Studios 2011 (EBOS 2011)

by Amy Ione EBOS 2011 is presented by ProArts Gallery in Oakland, CA.  This review was prepared for Leonardo Reviews . After reviewing the 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference [1], held in Berkeley in 2009, two thoughts kept reverberating in my mind as time passed.  First, I thought about the many reviews I have written [...]

July 2011 Leonardo Reviews Posted

July 2011 Arnheim for Film and Media Studies by Scott Higgins, Editor Reviewed by Ian Verstegen ArtScience: A Journey Through Creativity – permanent exhibition and Travelling the Silk Road exhibition Reviewed by Stella Veciana Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work by Nigel Cross Reviewed by Dene Grigar East Bay Open Studios Preview Exhibition [...]