by Phin Upham In 1897 the scholar Emile Durkheim wrote Suicide one of the first examples of rigorous sociology. It used the suicide rates in Europe to illustrate the importance of community ties to behavior. To this day it stands as a classic in sociology and has had profound impact on the way economics, […]
Relativity in Evolutionary Biology
Part 1: The Classical Theory of Relativity Classical Relativity beginsi with Galileo’s description of how a person below deck on a boat moving uniformly would not be able to tell whether the boat was in motionii. Without an outside perspective, we cannot tell if we are moving with respect to some object, usually […]
THE IDEA OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, CONTINUED
This part of the Twenty-first Century marks the continuation of putting history in order. Especially in the Art world where everyday is important as it develops like a slow film process. Moves at the speed of transmission and huge like an iceberg in motion. The beginning of order is categorical. A container with items placed […]
THE IDEA OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
<p>I am all about being a visual person. Ever since I was born I began to see. Let me tell you about one of the first visions I had when I was an infant in Prague Czechoslovakia. I was looking up at the amazing clock tower in the main square while in my mothers arms, I saw […]