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Ten surprises about Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ 🔍 link to original article

The most popular painting in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition on Van Gogh’s Cypresses (until 27 August) is undoubtedly Starry Night. It is on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, where it is normally a major attraction, surrounded by admirers.

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From The MIT Press Reader 🔍 link to original article

My husband reads to me every night before we go to sleep. We deliberately choose books that are familiar – oft-read children's classics make frequent appearances – so I do not worry about missing something important when I drift off.

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On rejection and generosity

Notes to self and fellow souls from an underwater artist The healthy way to handle rejection is not to harden and not to go into counter-rejection. Not to get caught in trauma and drama.To go back underwater and to remain generous is the best way to thrive and survive. To be able to stand alone and be nourished by the people who support and care if you are lucky to have some around, and to feed…

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Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years Before ChatGPT 🔍 link to original article

“The mind is its own place,” wrote Milton, “and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

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The Neuroscience of Op Art 🔍 link to original article

Artists, like neuroscientists, are masters of visual systems. Through experimentation and observation, artists have developed innovative methods for fooling the eye, enabling flat canvases to appear three-dimensional, for instance.

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What Is Time: 200 Years of Ravishing Reflections, from Borges to Nina Simone 🔍 link to original article

We are living interludes, bookended between not yet and no more, each of us a random draw of the cosmic lottery, each allotted a sliver of spacetime in which to live out our lives as chance configurations of stardust suspended in time.

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Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius 🔍 link to original article

The best things in life we don’t choose — they choose us. A great love, a great calling, a great illumination — they happen unto us, like light falling upon that which is lit.

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Is the attunement of abstract art and music more than a metaphor? 🔍 link to original article

Aubrey Williams, an artist known for his interest in the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, painted a series of 30 abstract paintings of his symphonies and string quartets. Writing on the series in 1982, the art critic Guy Brett noted:

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Rootedness and Reclaiming God 🔍 link to original article

There is a peculiar existential loneliness that entombs us whenever we lose our sense of connection to the web of being — the self begins to feel like a twig torn from the tree of life, and something inside us withers with longing.

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Nature and Transcendence: Emerson on How We Become Our Most Authentic Selves 🔍 link to original article

“We forget that nature itself is one vast miracle transcending the reality of night and nothingness,” Loren Eiseley wrote in his exquisite meditation on nature, human nature, and the meaning of life. “We forget that each one of us in his personal life repeats that miracle.

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What it's like to grow up with autism 🔍 link to original article

No-one knew I was autistic as a child but, looking back, there were a number of sensory clues. Apart from a tendency to repetitively stroke soft fabrics or run grains of sand through my fingers, I also found swirling and gentle rocking mesmerisingly soothing.

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Unconscious Imagination and the Mental Imagery Debate 🔍 link to original article

Traditionally, philosophers have appealed to the phenomenological similarity between visual experience and visual imagery to support the hypothesis that there is significant overlap between the perceptual and imaginative domains.

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Nature Is Always Listening: The Science of Mushrooms, Music, and How Sound Waves Stimulate Mycelial Growth 🔍 link to original article

Fungi are the evolutionary cardinals of the Earth — the first to conquer it and the last to inherit it, composing the living substratum beneath every forest and every field and every backyard ecosystem.

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Embodiment Practices: How to Heal Through Movement 🔍 link to original article

When was the last time you felt truly connected to the sensations of your body and fully aware of the present moment? It is easy to get disconnected when listening to the demands of life.

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Why there's more to being smart than intelligence 🔍 link to original article

In the late 1920s, a young working-class boy nicknamed Ritty spent most of his time tinkering in his "laboratory" at his parents' home in Rockaway, New York.

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How to use anxiety to your advantage 🔍 link to original article

When my son was born with a congenital heart condition, like any parent, I felt lost. He required open-heart surgery and I felt overwhelming uncertainty for what the future might hold.