The last time I gave any thought to the Taming of the Shrew was probably when I
was home sick from school with tonsillitis, watching Elizabeth Taylor chuck
strategically-aimed apples at Richard Burton’
The MoMA recently acquired the exhibition Dear Data
[http://www.dear-data.com/theproject], a joint collaboration between Stefanie
Posavec and Giorgia Lupi. Stefanie describes herself as “an artist whose medium
is data.” For
The race to space is often depicted as the last frontier—a rugged landscape that
demands smarts as a compass and sheer gumption as the driving force. Usually men
are the main characters
Hollywood has released a feature film starring the scientific method. In Ridley
Scott’s The Martian, special effects take the backseat to a computer from 1996,
and hexadecimal digits and botany unexpectedly upstage
Andrew McCall Smith notes,
> “Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes
are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps
we make of ourselves,
