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Diplomacy, art, smoke and mirrors (Photo blog)
Diplomacy and mirrors: This is the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles near Paris, France. Built between 1678–1684, it has the site of numerous historical and state occasions, inspiring many now famous paintings. At the time, the Venetian Republic held trade secrets in glass mirror manufacturer, so, following the economic philosophy of mercantilism, the French monarchy poached workers to France to build the huge mirrors. Legend has it the Venice sent agents in an unsuccessful attempt to poison the workers and keep its secrets. (And you thought the language in your non-compete agreement was draconian. Of course, assassination back then was just diplomacy by other means. Then again, this might just be an urban legend.) We’re wrapping our mirrors, animals, consciousness and data theme. (And maybe also our aristocracy and mirrors theme. Or our artwork and mirrors theme.) Although a beautiful work of art, the Hall of Mirrors has more to do with history, politics, diplomacy and perhaps economics than data.… Read the restA Chimp, a Congressional Rep, and a Mirror
Election day photo: chimp art. (Or … holding your Congressional Rep up to a mirror.) No, we didn’t really buy into the old (and false) urban legend that some group of baboons is called a congress. (They’re not. A group of baboons is a troop.) However, Congress is up for election today (when this was originally posted on our IG feed). We’ve done several articles discussing the science around why democracy is important (not everyone in the world believes it is), and are likely to do more in the future. So, if you’re in the US, don’t let the urban legend make a monkey out of you: vote if you’re eligible! (Political science and economics are important applications of data science. This is Hugo Rheinhold’s famous 19th century sculpture of a politician’s closest living relative, the common chimpanzee. That chimp has political skills! He shares 99% of this DNA with members of Congress — and also all the rest of us.… Read the restRoman One Percent Lifestyle (Getty Villa Malibu photo)
Wondering how the ancient Roman one percent lived? This is our photo of the pool in the Getty Villa Roman-era reconstruction in Malibu not too far from our HQ in Los Angeles, California. The Getty Villa is one of the Getty’s two famous art museums in the area. The building itself is intended to be an exact replica of a Roman-era house buried during the volcano eruption at Pompeii (obviously the owners were definitely in the Roman one percent, even back then). So we had enough of mirrors, self-aware vampires, and Halloween-related posts and thought this would be a nice change. (We originally published as a photo post on our IG feed.) Oh wait, never mind, there are some really old Etruscan mirrors on display here. So looks like we’re back to mirrors and artificial consciousness after all. 🙂 We’ll note that it should soon be possible to take virtual reality tours of ancient buildings, something that wasn’t possible when the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA (Wikipedia) was built.… Read the restPaleo Diet Photo Blog: Mammoth and Rembrandts
After our last post, we wanted to try out the Paleo Diet near headquarters in Los Angeles, California. Look what they dug up from the world famous La Brea Tar Pits (Wikipedia) at the Page Museum! This is right next to the LACMA art museum, where we photographed the sunset over the Levitated Mass sculpture, one of our all-time most-liked photographs to date (when this was originally posted as an IG post). In addition to ancient mammoth fossils and giant pet rock art exhibits, there also are Picassos and Rembrandts in the same city block. (But apparently no Vermeer, although they did show the Vermeer documentary we discussed earlier. This is also a photographic follow-up to our earlier, much more serious Woolly Mammoth post on 11,000-year-old prehistoric art and preserving extinct species’s DNA.) Unfortunately, none of the restaurants nearby serve mammoth (and the ubiquitous Starbucks across the street from the mammoth’s bones also was out of their usual cold, shrink-wrapped mammoth sandwiches).… Read the restRecent Comments
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