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In January, the Washington Post reports on a crash survivor seeking a bionic eye to replace her otherwise inert glass eye. You used to need hubris, millions of dollars and the support of a great research university to imagine building a replacement for the human eye. Now it’s become dream and quest material for artists Continue reading Eye of a Dream Beheld (Washington Post) The News and Observer has an article about Michael Pollan’s upcoming visit to the National Humanities Center. Pollan’s book, published this year by Penguin Press, is about its title: the plethora of food choices facing the typical American. In it, he traces the paths of four meals: * an industrial-produced meal (McDonald’s) consumed the way Continue reading It’s all about the food (News and Observer) |
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