Stanley Glacier
The Stanley Glacier hike in Kootenay National Park is pretty awesome. It is sometimes referred to as the fire and ice trail, because it goes from burned forest to alpine meadow, to the receding Stanley Glacier.
Walcott Quarry
In 2017 another long-held dream came true when I had a chance to visit the Walcott Quarry, the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.
Further Reading
A new gravitational wave discovery. Martin Scorsese on filmmaking. Reconstructing faces from neural population responses. Amazing new picture of Jupiter. China's great rivers. Is conspicuous consumption over? Regret. The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming. And more.
Further Reading
A new theory of the history of life on Earth. The mathematics of juggling. Can a mind can be located outside of the head? Chris Ware on Saul Steinberg. Where oil rigs go to die. The world is running out of sand. The quantum thermodynamics revolution. The pleasures of pessimism. And more.
Further Reading
Where have all the insects gone? Why Amazon is eating the world. Listeners prefer new violins and are unable to distinguish between new and old violins. Empire of Things. Louis Kahn. Using homes as ATMs. Cosmic inflation faces challenges. Two books about owls. An amazing dinosaur find. And more.
Further Reading
A conversation with Christof Koch. Links stehen, rechts gehen? Why people prefer unequal societies. Some useful heuristics from the analytical philosophy tool kit. Some thoughts about Comme des Garçons. Negative mass. How lizards get their spots. Why shoelaces fail. Christophe Guilluy. And more.
David Hockney at Tate Britain
A career retrospective can do a great disservice to an artist, as in the case of the David Hockney retrospective at Tate Britain.
Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern
An excellent introduction to the work and career of Robert Rauschenberg. I just wish it had been larger.
Further Reading
Michel Foucault's work on power (and its corollary freedom) is as relevant today as it was in the 70s. Sometimes entropy leads to order. Damien Hirst about his upcoming exhibition, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable. A CERN experiment discovers not one, but five new particles. And more.
Mathematics: The Winton Gallery
The recently opened Winton Gallery at the London Science Museum houses the museum's mathematics gallery.
Highlights from the Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear Collections
Not many highlights this season, but the fall 2017 RTW collection by Junya Watanabe was great.