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August 8, 2016

PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS

Science is devoted to puzzle solving, not problem solving. We are conditioned to think of science as solving enormously complex problems. We romanticize about Salk or Madame Curie heroically making life better for all...

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March 9, 2015

SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION

Stanislaw Ulam, speaking in Los Alamos in 1944. “I found out that the main ability to have was a visual, and also an almost tactile, way to imagine the physical situation, rather than a...

“Aesthetic experience, being a free activity, must be as unhampered as possible by the materially given, that is, as close as possible to unmediated intuition.” Sonesson.

“For Kandinsky, abstraction did not mean reducing a realistic scene down to its essential formal elements. Rather, it means an inductive process of building a scene by combining the ‘graphic elements’ – the fundamental building blocks of painting, such as points, lines, planes, color, texture,, and so forth – in a certain way.” Zettl.

“I’m likewise calling for a renewed visual culture of the object— for a new focus on visual form as a site of rich rhetorical material.” Atzmon,

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