The Paper Garden In the late 18th century, the twice-widowed Mary Delany created nearly a thousand breathtakingly beautiful and intricate paper “mosaicks” of flowers. Glued onto black backgrounds, they were not only stunning but also botanically precise. Mrs. D., as her latest biographer, the poet Molly Peacock, sometimes calls her, began this project [...]
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Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free
New Haven, Conn. — Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible in [...]
The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction by Dr. Melissa M. Littlefield PhD
Real and imagined machines, including mental microscopes, thought translators, and polygraphs, have long promised to detect deception in human beings. Now, via fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists seem to have found what scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials have sought for over a century: foolproof lie detection. But are these new lie detection technologies any different [...]
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.
Digitized Russian Rare Books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently digitized a small selection of rare books published in Imperial and early Soviet Russia. This small sliver represents a wide range of themes and formats, including Soviet caricature, arms and armor, 19th-century photograph albums, collection and exhibition catalogs. You can browse and use [...]
Leonardo Reviews Posted for March 2011
Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN: 1559-0429)
