Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get …
Quote for Today: Pedro Domingos
One of the most important problems in machine learning—and life—is the exploration-exploitation dilemma. If you’ve found something that works, should you just keep doing it? Or is it better to …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #14: Artist Jacqui Beck of Seattle
Two weeks into our Globe-trotting travel series, today we visit contemporary mixed-media artist Jacqui Beck of Seattle, painting in her beautiful backyard with her cats. For her, this quarantine time …
Quote for Today: Buckminster Fuller
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new …
Quote for Today: Vincent van Gogh
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —Vincent van Gogh Public Domain Image via pexels.com
Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who …
Acoustic Dance Music: Experimentation and the Indigenous in Olive Tree Dance’s Airport Tunnel
Olive Tree Dance is a Portuguese band who fuse Australian aboriginal music, Afro-Brazilian music and contemporary dance music to create something quite unique. Their style has been dubbed bio-natural for …
Tree Music: Works of Diego Stocco
Diego Stocco is a Italian composer, music sound designer and performer who combines the electronic with the natural. In other words, he is right up our alley here at Synkroniciti. …
Cool Noise: Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and Giorgio Moroder
Daft Punk became popular in the 1990s and is credited with some of the biggest hits of the French house music scene, including Phoenix and Rollin’ and Scratchin’. Audiences in …