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 [...]
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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.
New Leonardo Reviews posted (January 2011)
Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN: 1559-0429) 3D Typography by Jeanette Abbink & Emily CM Anderson Reviewed by Martha Patricia Niño Mojica
Perceptual Psychology, not Neuroscience?
Tyler Burge argues that advances in perceptual psychology, not neuroscience, should be grabbing headlines. The article is here.
Art and Justice
As someone who once thought about becoming a lawyer, and turned to art instead, I am always intrigued by conjunctions of the two, so I was fascinated to discover that a book has just come out that examines the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold. Randy Kennedy’s review in the New York Times says [...]
Survey: Perception of Images
Amanda Wilson has put together a survey to collect some data about the perception of images. It is short, 7 questions. Here’s the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XRVRXJ6 I urge you to visit.
New Leonardo Reviews: Posted | June 2010
A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body <http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/june2010/black_cohen.php> by Ed Cohen Reviewed by C.F. Black
Ann: Leonardo Reviews Quarterly 1.01 | June 2010
Now online here Leonardo Reviews is the work of an international panel of scholars and professionals invited from a wide range of disciplines to review books, exhibitions, CD-ROMs, Web sites, and conferences. Collectively they represent an intellectual commitment to engaging with the emergent debates and manifestations that are the consequences of the convergence of the [...]
Ann: Illuminating the Science: Art and Climate Change
Thursday, April 22 at 3pm + 6:30 pm Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Ave at 34th Street, New York City Free! First come, first served http://web.gc.cuny.edu/MESTC/events/s10/illuminating-science.html
