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1936: Untitled
Amy Nimr: Untitled (1936)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Amy Nimr, Art, Death, Egypt, Fish, Painting, Syria, Women
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1869: Mount Tamalpais
William Marple: Mount Tamalpais from Napa Slough (1869) The name “Tamalpais” derives from the Coast Miwok name for the mountain, támal pájiṣ, which means “west hill.” The Coast Miwok numbered between 1,500 and 2,000 before the arrival of Europeans to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, Art, Coast Miwok, Colonialism, Landscapes, Mountains, Native Americans, Painting, Ships & Sailing, USA, William Marple
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170 AD: Memnon
Portrait of Memnon: Greek, c. 170 AD Memnon was the pupil, protégé, and adopted son of Herodes Atticus, a Greek aristocrat and sophist who served as a senator of the Roman Empire. He was named after the mythological Ethiopian king … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Century, Africa, Ethiopia, Greece, Mythology, Portraits, Sculpture
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2000: Guardian
Klatle-bhi (Kwakwaka’wakw/Squamish): The Guardian; I had to guess on the date.
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Art, Canada, Klatle-bhi, Kwakwaka’wakw, Masks, Native Americans, Religion, Sculpture, Squamish
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2014: Is This Face Alive?
Using sets of morphed images created from animate (human) and inanimate (doll) faces, we found converging evidence across two studies showing that the motivation to connect with other people systematically alters the interpretation of the physical features that signal that … Continue reading
1861: Storm
Martin Johnson Heade: Approaching Storm: Beach near Newport (c 1861–62)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Martin Johnson Heade, Painting, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, USA
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2018: Is This the Face of God?
In order to measure people’s visualizations of God’s face, we used a nascent technique known as “reverse correlation.” In reverse correlation, a face is repeatedly and randomly overlaid with visual noise to create many pairs of contrasting faces. Participants see … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Christianity, Psychology, Religion, USA
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1896: Forest Stream
Peder Mørk Mønsted: Forest Stream (1896)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Denmark, Landscapes, Painting, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Trees
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1357: Fruit
In passynge be the lond of CATHAYE toward the higℏ ynde & toward BACHARYE, men passen be a kyngdom þat men clepen CALDILHE, þat is a fuƚƚ fair contre. And þere growetℏ a maner of fruyt as þougℏ it weren … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, Animals, Books, Chaldia, Food and Drink, Great Britain, John Mandeville, Oddities, Plants
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2009: A Country Dentist
Participants were 40 Canadian-born psychology undergraduates (29 females and 11 males). They were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions. In the meaning-threat condition, participants read an absurd short story called ‘‘The Country Dentist.’’ The story is a modified … Continue reading
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Books, Canada, Dentistry, Franz Kafka, Medicine, Pink Floyd, Psychology, USA
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