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High and Low Concepts

Steven Pressfield on April 25, 2012: What exactly is High Concept? Let’s start with its opposite, low concept. Low concept stories are personal, idiosyncratic, ambiguous, often European.  “Well,…

Putting the Con in Conceptual

Edward Frenkel in The New York Times , in an op-ed piece dated Feb. 20, 2015 — "… I suggest that we regard the paradoxes of quantum physics as…

Conceptual Art

See High White in this journal. Related material: The Astoria Column on Coxcomb Hill, Astoria, Oregon See also a tale from today's Daily Astorian   (click the AP link in Parks…

Review

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Parks and Recreation

From the Associated Press today — "It's a magic wonderland," said Miriam Leibowitz, a Jerusalem resident, as she reached a snow-filled city park with her family. "In the middle…

Happy Chinese Year of the Goat

From YouTube — "Published on Oct 13, 2014" * — Tine Goat Cheese ad by Henry Moore Selder Prod Co: Bacon Agency: Try Oslo Creatives: Caroline Ekrem & Sara Hødnebø *…

In the Place of the Skull

"I CAN TELL you about my friend Andrew, the cognitive scientist. But it’s not pretty." — Opening of Andrew's Brain: A Novel  by      E. L. Doctorow, Random House, Jan. 14,…

The Bluebird of Happiness

(Chinese style)

Song for a Night Bird

"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain and sends birds sailing past the window, spirit birds that ride the night, stranger than dreams." — The end of DeLillo's…

Late

For the late Paul Halmos — Keith Devlin's column is a monthly feature of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). This month's column apparently first appeared online on Tuesday, Feb….