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  • Are You Trapped in Black-and-White Thinking? 09/16/2011
    Which square is darker – A or B? Answer: Squares A and B are exactly the same colour and shade. Believe it? Have a look at http://lateralaction.com/articles/black-and-white-thinking/ for a clearer explanation.
  • 08/30/2011
    By Dave Cohen There is a paradox inherent in solving what I call the “consciousness problem” or simply “the box problem.” You must know you’re living in a box before you can escape from it. Solving this problem is harder than it sounds. Most people never do. It took me years to get outside the [...]
  • PS 07/04/2011
    That blog I had so long ago about Bonsai trees named Lorax and also the one about things not working out the way you plan? Yeah, so that tree died. And I’m on the third one since then. It’s growing really well, if you care to know. Turns out I wasn’t giving the others water [...]
  • I could be… 07/04/2011
    Staying up till 3 a.m watching Kanye West interviews or reading up on how to care for the bamboo I have on my windowsill, but instead I am going to write. It just seems more productive. Earlier I was working on a painting. Then I was on facebook. Then some kid posted a status about [...]
  • Staying Up Late 07/02/2011
    I’ve started staying up late. I feel like I’ve hit my stride creatively also. This past year was kind of a dud for ideas and furthering artistic practices I think. Sure, I tried some new things out with paintings and I had a blast with some ceramics projects, but I feel like the juices are [...]
  • Dr. Keith Rider 05/05/2011
    Dr. Keith Rider has been accepted for participation in the Research Associateship Program sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences.  As part of the program, he will work on a research project at the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop metallic explosive additives.  Compared to nuclear explosives, conventional explosives have a relatively low energy density and [...]
  • Untitled. 04/24/2011
    Nothing ever turns out the way you thought it would.
  • Existentialism 04/24/2011
    As a noun- a philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individual’s unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices. So much of what makes people people is driven by what they want to become. Or [...]
  • Christopher M. Register 04/18/2011
    Professor of Art, Christopher M. Register, completed his series of relief engravings: Scoundrels: 25 portraits of the Human Contradiction.  In October the entire series was previewed in a one-man show at the JFergeson Gallery in Farmville Virginia. In December, five of the portraits were selected for publication in issue #84 of the River Styx. ”River Styx, [...]
  • EPC Report—Ms. Menegoni 04/08/2011
    Click the link below for the report EPC report 3-29-11