Ivar Hagendoorn

Ivar Hagendoorn

Irving Penn at the Grand Palais
· Blog | Art

Irving Penn at the Grand Palais

To celebrate the centenary of his birth the Grand Palais in Paris has organized a large Irving Penn retrospective. I'm glad I visited the show, because I discovered a number of photos I hadn't seen before.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

A new theory may explain the success of deep learning. How do you make an AI curious? Why people migrate to the West. What the US heroin epidemic looks like. How many infinities are there? The semiotics of emoji. Interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah. A trucker’s tales of life on the road. And more.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

The future of Himalayan glaciers. Imagining creativity beyond "Nature" and "Culture". Claude Shannon and the nature of information. Photos from the Cassini mission. How to choose wisely. Hidden memories of plants. Our genetic prehistory. Did our hunter-gatherer ancestors have it better? And more.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

The mind of the octopus. How much more can we learn about the universe? A pre-history of post-truth. Religious freedom in Europe was driven by statecraft. The greatest civilization ever forgotten? J.M. Coetzee on a great writer we should know. 100 books set in/about Los Angeles. And more.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

Charles Taylor on some conditions of a viable democracy. Alaska's permafrost is thawing. An appreciation of Fernando Pessoa. Arthur Schopenhauer the first European Buddhist. Francis Fukuyama still believes in progress. The mysteries of the Russian mindset. Karl Ove Knausgaard by the book. And more.
· Blog | Further Reading

Further Reading

A new inventory of the universe’s dark contents. How your mind protects you against hallucinations. You are the product. The curious conundrum of Freud’s persistent influence. The LA rag trade. Books we don't understand. How to defeat procrastination. A blue pigment. Computer music. And much more.
Banff National Park
· Photography

Banff National Park

Banff National Park has it all: mountains, forests, lakes, waterfalls, glaciers, grizzly bears and lots of visitors. Three days clearly wasn't enough.
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Further Reading

A Nash equilibrium is often impossible to reach efficiently. Space may not be not what you think it is. The strange topology that is reshaping physics. Hitchcock talks about film making. The clothing choices of the homeless. Uber's hard-charging corporate culture. An appraisal of Raphael. And more.