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Slide Show: Photographing Love In celebration of Valentine’s Day, we’ve curated a selection of intimate portraits from photographers who have a significant body of work devoted to their husband, wife, partner, or lover. The images below explore intangible emotions, from new, lustful love to lengthy, studied intimacy to a love transformed or lost. Nicholas Pye and Sheila Pye, “Sitting on a Unicorn” (2004). “Playing self-invented, absurdist, and at times juvenile games, Sheila and I developed a situation or stage for power struggles between female and male to play out. Angelo Merendino, from “My Wife’s Fight with Breast Cancer.”

Concert Lecture Review/ Daniel Levitin & Edwin Outwater: Beethoven and Your Brain | article Concert Report Classical Live at the Koerner Hall, Toronto, October 27, 2010. Daniel Levitin, Host/AuthorEdwin Outwater, Host/ConductorKitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra An unusual evening combining scientific knowledge, musical excerpts, and above all, laughter, “Beethoven and Your Brain” was the first of several lecture series hosted by the Koerner Hall. Joining forces on stage were Daniel Levitin, Professor of Psychology, Behavioural Neuroscience and Music at McGill University; Edwin Outwater, Conductor and Music Director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra (KWSO), and of course, the indispensable KWSO ensemble itself providing the musical demonstrations. This unique opportunity of placing “a stethoscope in music” largely attributed to the near full-house attendance at the Koerner Hall. Unlike other music concerts hosted at the Koerner Hall, this concert-lecture was not only entertaining, but intellectually rewarding for each in the audience. By: Patrick P.L. Image by Andrew Tolson

Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict In this long-awaited work, Samir Khalaf analyzes the history of civil strife and political violence in Lebanon and reveals the inherent contradictions that have plagued that country and made it so vulnerable to both inter-Arab and superpower rivalries. How did a fairly peaceful and resourceful society, with an impressive history of viable pluralism, coexistence, and republicanism, become the site of so much barbarism and incivility? Khalaf argues that historically internal grievances have been magnified or deflected to become the source of international conflict.

ENTREVISTA A MARCOS LOPEZ POR ALEJANDRO CASTELLOTE ( VERSION FINAL, SIN CORREGIR ORTOGRAFIA NI PUNTUACION) Perteneces a una generación de fotógrafos que, en todo el mundo, hubieron de hacer una especie de travesía del desierto, dado que la fotografía era poco o nada considerada en el panorama artístico de sus países. ¿Cómo afrontaste la escasez de perspectivas? ¿Cuáles fueron tus inicios? Comencé a hacer fotos con una clara y decidida vocación expresiva. ¿Cómo era en tu opinión la fotografía argentina de los 80? Cuando llegué a Buenos Aires, enseguida me puse a conocer fotógrafos, me dieron una beca del Fondo de las Artes, trabajaba free-lance en revistas de Rock, y lo que más me importaba era generar imágenes con valor documental-artístico, si es que vale el término. Comenzamos a armar grupos de fotógrafos para aprender juntos, hacer criticas de nuestros trabajos, exposiciones y trabajar para que la fotografía fuera valorada como “arte”. ¿Había algún país que os sirviera de referente dentro de América Latina, o mirabais siempre hacia EE.UU. o Europa? México. Uno convive con la contradicción.

Biology and sexual orientation The relationship between biology and sexual orientation is a subject of research. A simple and singular determinant for sexual orientation has not been conclusively demonstrated; various studies point to different, even conflicting positions, but scientists hypothesize that a combination of genetic, hormonal and social factors determine sexual orientation.[1][2] Biological theories for explaining the causes of sexual orientation are more popular,[1] and biological factors may involve a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment.[3] These factors, which may be related to the development of a heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or asexual orientation, include genes, prenatal hormones, and brain structure. Empirical studies[edit] Twin studies[edit] Biometric modeling revealed that, in men, genetic effects explained .34–.39 of the variance [of sexual orientation], the shared environment .00, and the individual-specific environment .61–.66 of the variance.

Amelia Earhart on Marriage by Maria Popova “I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.” Charles Darwin gleefully weighed the pros and cons of marriage, ultimately deciding in its favor, while Susan Sontag called it “an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.” But marriage, of course, is like most things in life — all else being equal, you get out of it exactly what you put in. Amelia Earhart — pioneering aviator, bestselling author, and one altogether fierce lady — must have known that when she sat down on the morning of February 7th, 1931, and penned this exacting, resolute letter to her publicist and future husband, George Putnam. Noank ConnecticutThe Square House Church StreetDear GPPThere are some things which should be writ before we are married — things we have talked over before — most of them. The two married that afternoon. ↬ Feministing ↬ @dearsarah Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month.

Daniel J. Levitin's This Is Your Brain on Music -- Cognitive Neuroscience, music and memory Friedrich Nietzsche said it best, “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Music is an intrinsic aspect of our every-day lives. Whether you catch a commercial jingle, listen to the radio while studying, or sing to yourself in the shower, your mind is certain to process music every day. So what is it that drives humanity’s obsession with music, an art form and expression found across cultures throughout the world and time? Why do songs get stuck in our head? How does music have such a profound effect on emotions? Music, in our most basic conception of it, is the totality of a subset of multiple attributes that alone resemble, at most, mere sounds. A good example to consider is pitch. Pitch is one of the most important units of music. Somehow the brain is able to distinguish between the aspects of a song that remain consistent with each time we hear it and those aspects that are single-occurrence variations.

Opinion :: Columnist :: Indictments II, a disappointing sequel? The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is lucky to have Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah as a foe. On Tuesday, he again described the institution’s accusations as part of a conspiracy against Hezbollah. Were it not for the secretary-general, whose anxiety tends to confirm the tribunal’s seriousness, observers might have examined more critically the shortcomings in the United Nations investigation of Rafik Hariri’s assassination and those of many others between 2005 and 2008. There are reports, which may well be true, that further indictments are forthcoming. Last year officials from the tribunal’s prosecution office were privately declaring the indictments would be issued in stages. The principal reason for this is that the U.N. investigation altered its strategy in mid-stream between 2005 and 2006. Mehlis based his strategy on a number of factors. Mehlis also had his personal experiences to go on in devising his approach to the investigation. Under Serge Brammertz, the strategy was reversed.

ARGENTINE KITSCH: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF MARCOS LÓPEZ Trabajar en lo visual con frases hechas y a­rriesgar por el camino de la obviedad: primer plano, gran an­gular, fondo, men­saje social. (Marcos López, Pop latino sin número de pag.) El debate acerca de la naturaleza de las influencias extrajeras en la sociedad latinoamericana es largo y complejo, desplazándose desde lo que ve la destrucción de una cultura autóctona supuestamente auténtica por un lado, hasta las entusiastas defensas de la influencia modernizadora de su incorporación por el otro. Las sociedades latinoamericanas varían enormemente en cuanto a la forma en que determinan la influencia foránea o hasta en lo que se ha de definir como tal y cuáles son las fuentes de esa influencia y cuál es el propósito-—aparte de las ganancias de capital—-que subyace en ella. Las reacciones culturales—-a diferencia de las políticas-—a la influencia foránea abarcan numerosas opciones. Pop latino: Un shopping center de cartón pintado que tambalea azotado por los vientos patagónicos.

List of animals displaying homosexual behavior Couple of two male mallard ducks in a nature reserve in Germany For these animals, there is documented evidence of homosexual behavior of one or more of the following kinds: sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding, or parenting, as noted in researcher and author Bruce Bagemihl's 1999 book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. Selected images[edit] The all-female Brandon Davidson species Cnemidophorus neomexicanus (center), which reproduces via parthenogenesis, is shown flanked by two sexual species having males, C. inornatus (left) and C. tigris (right). Male homosexuality has been inferred in several species of dragonflies. Mammals[edit] Selected mammals from the full list: Birds[edit] Selected birds from the full list: Fish[edit] Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) leaping for a fly fisherman's bait. Reptiles[edit] Amphibians[edit] Insects[edit] Other invertebrates[edit] See also[edit] Bibliography[edit]

Laws of Physics Can't Trump the Bonds of Love Zack ConkleLIFE LESSONS Jeffrey Wright with his son, Adam, who has a developmental disorder, in a scene from “Wright’s Law.” Jeffrey Wright is well known around his high school in Louisville, Ky., for his antics as a physics teacher, which include exploding pumpkins, hovercraft and a scary experiment that involves a bed of nails, a cinder block and a sledgehammer. But it is a simple lecture — one without props or fireballs — that leaves the greatest impression on his students each year. The talk is about Mr. Wright’s son and the meaning of life, love and family. It has become an annual event at Louisville Male Traditional High School (now coed, despite its name), and it has been captured in a short documentary, “Wright’s Law,” which recently won a gold medal in multimedia in the national College Photographer of the Year competition, run by the University of Missouri. The filmmaker, Zack Conkle, 22, a photojournalism graduate of Western Kentucky University and a former student of Mr. Mr.

Music and brain Deep in the dog days of summer—the end of August 2007—Dr. Petr Janata sat at his computer writing some impossibly complicated code for one of his experiments about music and the brain. Outside his office window at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, heat from the triple-digit temps rose upward in waves from the parking lot’s surface. The center was deserted. Most of its dozen core faculty members and dozens more staffers were on summer vacation. While he worked, Janata waited for critical results from a major experiment he’d been conducting since joining the UC Davis faculty in 2005. “Honestly, I was a little bit afraid of seeing what the result would be,” Janata admitted nearly two years later. Did Janata’s statistical model explain his premise about a relationship among emotions, music and memory in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain? When the answer came back “yes,” Janata thought, “Holy shit!” His heart raced. Songs and brain scans Never get bored “I thought, ‘Wow!

Events - Un site en danger, le Pont Naturel Un site en danger, le Pont Naturel Event starts on Saturday, August 8, 2009From 11:00 AM until 02:00 PM Do you wish to attend this event? Dans le cadre de leur campagne de sauvetage du Pont Naturel de Kfardebian les associations écologiques et éco-touristiques SOS Environnement - Byblos Ecologia- Spéléo club du Liban – Terre-Liban -Greenline- Baldati- Green Square - Indyact- Lebanese Adventure- vous convient à une conférence de presse sur le site protégé samedi 8 août 2009 à 11h Programme de la journée : 9h- Rassemblement sur la route principale face au Pont, près du panneau de signalisation du Pont Naturel Départ pour une marche d’une heure dans la région qui se terminera sur le Pont 11h- Conférence de presse 12h- Pique-nique traditionnel libanais – animation musicale Paul Abi-Rached Participating CommunitiesWild Lebanon Event Location The location of this event is not available on the map.

Tres décadas de Marcos López en el museo Castaganino de Rosario | Gabriel Jürgens | Fotografía Un vuelo de cabotaje es un vuelo menor. La vida no pasa por el arte y Marcos López lo entiende a la perfección. “La fotografía es una excusa para exorcizar el dolor. CARLOS CARRION LA CIUDAD DE LA ALEGRIA. Transformar en poesía la resaca de un tequila de segunda marca. Como es su costumbre, toma influencias de la pintura y el teatro. La muestra tiene al Ekeko Pop (un muñeco colorido de dos metros, con fotos en la base) como centro desde donde se derraman el resto de las obras. Además, ahora está produciendo una película sobre Ramón Ayala (uno de los reyes del chamamé), en un paso de la foto al cine. Esta exposición itinerante recorrerá Paraná, San Juan, Mendoza, Córdoba, Neuquén, La Plata y Buenos Aires, donde llegará en octubre de 2010. Por: Osvaldo Noval.