The lost world of Amity Cadet
(edit 22nd August 2018 – readers may also be interested in the careers of Ana Olgica and Enno Aare) The works of the Vietnam-born French composer and pianist Amity Cadet…
Category: complexity
“the unbridled onward rush into the abyss”
From “Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time” by Simon Garfield: “Optimistically, the more benign form of frenetic standstill is not a new thing. In the terminology of popular…
“someone who is abnormally normal” – Christopher Bollas, Adam deVille, social media, and the “normotic” self
Adam de Ville, who who I have linked to before, has a fascinating post on Christopher Bollas, and how he (deVille) came to an appreciation of the enduring insights of…
Honesty on Google vs Facebook – a footnote from John Lanchester
An essay worth reading in full on Facebook which contains this amusing footnote: Facebook already had a huge amount of information about people and their social networks and their professed…
Could a novice beat Magnus Carlsen with a month to prepare? (Spoiler alert: No)
Someone said that headlines formulated as questions almost always have the answer “No.” I came across this column on Chess.com which is a reaction to this Wall Street Journal article…
The Droste Effect (nearly) in the Domhnach Airgid
The Droste Effect is the name given to an image containing a smaller version of that image which contains therefore a smaller version of that image and so on ,…
Eleanor Parker on myths about the Middle Ages
An interesting piece that touches on anti-Catholic myths, historical myths, and science vs. religion myths. The medieval Church, let’s be clear, had no objection to scientific progress. Throughout the Middle…
Appreciating nature in the 6th Century: From “The Consolation of Philosophy”, Boethius
It is often argued that appreciation of nature is a phenomenon of industrial societies. The implication being that “nature” is something that intellectuals and city folk appreciate – not people…
Séamus Sweeney 