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Igor Stravinsky

A Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who is widely considered one of the most important com...

Zerah Colburn

Child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator

Hermann von Helmholtz

Hermann von Helmholtz

A German physicist and physician known for his mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

British poet and Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

An American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist who founded the Facebook soc...

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

A French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathema...

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Henri Matisse and The Healing Power of Art

Henri Matisse and The Healing Power of Art

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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (1869–1954) is known as one of the leading figures of modern art as an outstanding colorist, draughtsman, painter, print-maker, and sculptor. Along with André Derain, he is credited for having launched the Fauvism movement (1904-1908), an intensely emotional style of painting distinguished by a color palette that was rebellious for its time.The artist is proof that art heals and that age has no limitations. In 1941, he was diagnosed with cancer. After his colostomy he had to succumb to the use of a wheelchair. Although he lost the physical strength to paint...

String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea'

String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea'

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Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at City College, New York, a proponent of string theory but also a well-known populariser of science, with multiple TV appearances and several bestselling books behind him. His latest book, The God Equation, is a clear and accessible examination of the quest to combine Einstein’s general relativity with quantum theory to create an all-encompassing “theory of everything” about the nature of the universe.How close do you believe science is to accomplishing a theory of everything?Well, I think we actually have the theory but not i...

Orestes A. Brownson' The American Republic

Orestes A. Brownson' The American Republic

While Roman Catholic commentary on specific phases of American life and politics fills many volumes, particularly in the form of periodical literature, systematic analyses of American government in terms of the philosophy of-the Church Fathers and the great scholastics are rarely encountered. Certainly, such an examination addressed to the general reading public is exceptional. Even more unusual is it to find a work from this viewpoint accepted as an influential element in our intellectual development and heritage. Such, however, has been the happy fate of Orestes A. Brownson's ...

Not Forgotten

Not Forgotten

In 1959, Truman Capote stumbled on a short article in The New York Times about a gruesome quadruple murder at a Kansas farm. He soon realized that it was the story he had been waiting to write for 20 years.When he began writing professionally, Capote, who died 32 years ago today, theorized that journalism and creative writing could come together in the form of what he called the “nonfiction novel.” The subject had to be right, however; with journalism underpinning such a novel, the pitfall was that it could quickly date itself. Crime, he decided, could be the perfect vehicle.“...

Henri Matisse and The Healing Power of Art

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Orestes A. Brownson' The American Republic

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Hector Berlioz: music's great revolutionary

Music

Hector Berlioz: music's great revolutionary

On February 7, 1848, Hector Berlioz gave a concert of his own works in London – a lengthy programme that included Harold en Italie, the first two parts of La damnation de Faust, the Offertorium from the Grande messe des morts and Carnaval romain. The response was enthusiastic, provoking Edward Ho...

Karl Popper's Philosophy Of Science

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Karl Popper's Philosophy Of Science

Proper recognition came belatedly to the work of Karl Popper. The novelty and power of his comprehensive philosophy went largely unnoticed for decades, his views being misapprehended, to the extent they were apprehended at all, as an uncompelling variation on the domin...

The mysteries of Louis Pasteur’s mislaid lab books

Chemistry

The mysteries of Louis Pasteur’s mislaid lab books

Louis Pasteur is one of the world’s most famous scientists, acclaimed for his work on the germ theory of disease, for developing rabies and anthrax vaccines, and for inventing a technique to prevent bacterial contamination of milk and wine—his eponymous pasteurization process. But Pasteur has a s...

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