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Ann: Leonardo Reviews online (May 2011)

Compression & Purity by Will Alexander Reviewed by Allan Graubard Interface Criticism: Aesthetics Beyond Buttons by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Soren Pold, Editors Reviewed by Ellen Pearlman The Filming of Modern Life. European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s by Malcolm Turvey Reviewed by Jan Baetens

Now Available: L|R|Q – Leonardo Reviews Quarterly

The third issue of Leonardo Reviews Quarterly is available to download as a PDF. Please click here to start the download.

Working Best at Coffee Shops?

Why are many telecommuters most efficient in noisy public places with lots of distractions? by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic Read More 04/15/11

Time for a Technology Diet?

All those tweets, apps, updates may drain brain James Temple Published Sunday, April 17, 2011 | San Francisco Chronicle A team at UCSF published a study last week that found further evidence that multitasking impedes short-term memory, especially among older adults. Researchers there previously found that distractions of the sort that smart phones and social [...]

Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books

A federal judge rejected Google’s $125 million class-action settlement with authors and publishers, delivering a blow to the company’s ambitious plan to build the world’s largest digital library and bookstore. Full article

San Francisco in Color

The Smithsonian Institution has discovered rare color photographs of the ruins of San Francisco from the 1906 earthquake. The images, taken by photography pioneer Frederick Ives, appear to be the earliest color photographs of San Francisco ever taken. Read more

Leonardo Reviews Posted for March 2011

Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN:  1559-0429)

Article: Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep

Interesting interview here on anesthesia with Dr. Emery Neal Brown, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and a practicing physician. He heads a laboratory seeking to unravel one of medicine’s big questions: how anesthesia works.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Royal Ballet Opera

Alice on Her Toes, at a Rare Tea Party By ROSLYN SULCAS Published: March 1, 2011 LONDON — How do you make a full-length story ballet in 2011? Christopher Wheeldon must have asked himself that as he prepared “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” his much hyped new full-length work for the Royal Ballet, set to a [...]

Scientists Discover New Ancient Human Species

Scientists say an entirely separate type of human identified from bones in Siberia co-existed and interbred with our own species. The ancient humans have been dubbed Denisovans after the caves in Siberia where their remains were found. Read more.