Tag: Robert

Robert Hughes — the Australian art critic — described Warhol as ‘as one of the stupidest people I’d ever met in my life. Because he had nothing to say.’ Hughes was dismissive of much of modern art because, like many other old school aesthetes, he never managed...

Forty years separated Robert Voyles and I until that morning in Natchez. The circumstances surrounding our meeting were the same as finding lasagna at a Vietnamese restaurant: unlikely and unusual. Robert E. Lee Voyles Robert E. Lee Voyles. The “Mississippi Redneck”, as he&rsqu...

ROBERT LOWELL was born in Boston in 1917 as Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV, and raised at 91 Revere Street on Beacon Hill. He wrote poetry about big subjects, and coined striking lines and phrases. Often deeply depressed, sometimes ecstatic, he bravely — almost brutally — shared some of ...

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?” said the great Robert Frost, and that quote finally clicked last night. Despite writing plays and stories throughout my Engineering, I never summoned the will to write blogs, and after jotting down only two lines, I real...

I went to the Domino’s in Lisbon Falls to pick up a Pizza for dinner. This is a pretty regular occurence for us. There aren’t very many food options in Lisbon Falls and the pizza is cheap and quick. Robert Card had already killed 7 people at the Bowling Alley in Lewiston. He was actively...

Instead of “genius,” he uses the term “master” because the people we call geniuses have mastered their field. And this book teaches us how to attain that kind of mastery in any field. You get to learn about the science behind creativity, effective learning methods, ways...

Just as it is with other fields of study, how we practice anthropology, history, and archaeology has adapted and evolved numerous times in the past two centuries. The procedures we use to observe cultures and analyze historical events has repeatedly shifted on account of changes in methodologies, sc...

If you watch a lot of podcasts you may have encountered Stanford Professor Dr. Robert Sapolsky. He has done the rounds recently since releasing a book called “Determined”, in which he outlines his view that we “don’t have a shred” of free will. Sapolsky is a hard determ...

Imaging being a researcher who just discovered the medication to a certain disease and you decide to try on two separate groups; test and control group. You expect concrete results from the test group rather than the control one. How do you think these expectations might affect the actual experiment...

Oh it was sometime early this year I ran into Robert Fripp of King Crimson on-line and found out that he was a Gurdjieff disciple, unfollowed him, blogged about it, and triggered countless King Crimson fans. This feeds into this unpleasant thing about my writing. I would like, if anything, to keep a...

Just as it is with other fields of study, how we practice anthropology, history, and archaeology has adapted and evolved numerous times in the past two centuries. The procedures we use to observe cultures and analyze historical events has repeatedly shifted on account of changes in methodologies, sc...