Hels
In his essay Civilisation & its Discontents 1929, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had analysed the aggressive cruelty that changed men into savages. After Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, as much as he recognised these trends, Freud was reluctant to apply them to Vienna. Even when the...
Hels
London-born Eric Ravilious (1903-42) spent his early years in Eastbourne E. Sussex and won a scholarship to attend the Eastbourne School of Art in 1919. Later he enrolled at Royal College of Art London where he studied under Paul Nash, a War Artist in WW1. Later Ravilious worked as a painter, book...
Alan
Light honey, cream and crusty French bread swirl between the cheeks. Plus a slightly minty hop. This is only $2.85 CND a can at the LCBO and grocery stores around our fair province. That’s a great cheap beer for a hot afternoon in the garden. There’s not much else to say about it. Pairs well with...
Alan
Taking a break from the TV and all the fitba, I was out and about this week doing a bit of visiting and looking for ice cream. Fields of grain. Sunny skies. I heard Indigo Buntings on separate country roads. Had me a mango sugar cone, thanks for asking. And no brain melting heat like the reports...
Alan
We need a new anthem: Let’s root root root for Cape Verde If they don’t win it’s a shame… Actually, that tie will do just fine. Just fine. Still, Uruguay has have the best strip. We remember the Graf Spee after all. Isn’t it fun how many old simmering bigotries and grudges come out during...
Hels
The Lutetia hotel was one of Paris’ landmarks, a monument to the city’s cultural memory where art, history and luxury met. In Dec 1910 Lutetia was opened by Marguerite and Aristide Boucicaut, visionary founders of Le Bon Marché. They created a hotel to welcome the department store’s wealthy...
Hels
Theophylactus of Tusculum (c1020–c1056) became the youngest pope ever as Pope Benedict IX. The date of his birth was uncertain but his first papacy DID start in 1032. Benedict was great-grandson of Marozia, a powerful Roman politician who ?was mistress of Pope Sergius III. Via Marozia,...
Susan Stepney
The weather has been glorious here at the workshop in Bad Honnef, so I went for a short walk this lunchtime, down to the Rhine.close to the RhineAs you can see in the above photo on the right, there is a spit poking out into nearly the middle of the river. Walking out on the spit gave me this...
Susan Stepney
I arrived in Bad Honnef, near Bonn in Germany, yesterday evening, after a flight to Cologne airport followed by a 30 minute local train ride. I'm attending the New Opportunities in Physics‐based Computing workshop at the Physikzentrum there.The view from my window in the Physikzentrum is down to...
4u
Funkschau 1931, Issue 12 (archive.org) The fantastic idea of the "radio man", a fully automatic machine man, keeps popping up. Why do you imitate the shape of the human being, struggling with arms and legs? The machine has its own laws. And if the machine is to fulfill all the human functions...