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What separates us from the other animals? The list of proposed answers is as long as your arm: rationality; cooking; religion; pointless games; making stuff; and so forth. But one popular answer has always been our power of language. The exact process by which we acquired it is mysterious. So here is Tom Wolfe to tell us why everyone to date has got it wrong.
The book tells the story of two little guys up against two establishment bullies. The hard-grafting Alfred Russel Wallace, who independently co-discovered the principle of evolution by natural selection, didn't stand a chance against Charles Darwin, who enjoyed “the eternally Daddy-paid-for life of a British Gentleman”. Darwin imagined his theory could explain everything, but Wallace eventually decided that it couldn't explain language, which must after all have been God-given.
Wolfe tells his stories with the kind of free-wheeling vim familiar from The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities
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It's probably just as well as the walk to the fifth pub takes a lot longer than the first four, because according to a four-country collaboration of sports boffins, exercise helps offset ethanol.…
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An old shot I've just got round to processing - (I'm very slow)
This week is the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London so this one seemed appropriate - I've posted a wider shot of this evening before with the old wooden posts in the foreground.
Here I'd zoomed in to 55mm to get more detail in Tower Bridge & the City but had to create a pano to include the Shard & Tower 42.
I particularly liked the burning red reflections in the windows of the Thames Clipper & Tower 42 in this one.
One of those grey overcast days where I wasn't expecting any colour but the Sun broke under the cloud right at the end.
The sky colour was so intense that the raw file was too saturated to need any increase.
The Great Fire of London was started in Pudding Lane by the Royal Baker (inadvertently) in 1666 - so they say.
Luckily very few people were thought to have been hurt & the fire succeeded in sterilising most of the run down slum filled bits of London that had been ravaged by the Great Plague.
For some reason Great Fires, Puddings & Bakers brought 'The Great British Bake Off' to mind.
If you're a fan of the show like my wife - (although I suspect the real reason she watches it is to see the steely eyed scouser - Paul Hollywood) - & you're a serious baker - be sure to turn off the oven before going to bed :))
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Sunset at Big Ben, London
Its presentation may seem hurried and chaotic, but the inaugural edition of this design gala brings eye-opening visions of utopia from all corners of the globe
A battered orange pickup truck stands on the stately stone terrace of London's Somerset House, parked askew like a getaway car hastily abandoned. Behind it stretches a shanty village of shawarma-sellers and juice-squeezers, backgammon players and shisha smokers, along with a barber sharpening his cutthroat razor with alarming enthusiasm.
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for 'I am here', the paper pieces express the non-stop flow of pedestrians that occupy the bustling district of ginza in japan.
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The Store, London
The Hayward's new offsite show is a weird, wonderful assortment of installations featuring ghostly opera stars, dancing plant-life and a bullet-riddled tour of Kendrick Lamar's home town
Maria Callas stands in a narrow alcove beyond a barrier in a dark and resounding space. A holographic apparition, Callas is a woman in red, played by artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, lip-synching the diva's voice as she sings arias from Cherubini's Medea, Verdi's La Traviata and Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
We are in a cavernous concrete floor of Store, a brutalist office block on London's Strand, now occupied by the Hayward's The Infinite Mix, an offsite exhibition (the Hayward gallery itself is closed for a two-year refurbishment) devoted to sound and image, video and music. As well as the holographic ghost of Maria Callas, Gonzalez-Foerster gives us an aural apparition of the opera house itself, with recorded whispers from the audience and the echoey background noise of an auditorium whose volume is larger than the space we are in. There is a yearning for something always beyond reach in Gonzalez-Foerster's work that I like very much.
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the installation offers visitors the unique experience of simultaneously seeing the world through the eyes of both philip johnson and kusama herself.
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A major installation by Ik-Joong Kang, one of South Korea's most renowned and celebrated multimedia artists, “Floating Dreams” sits on a barge on London's River Thames, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, against a backdrop of the BT Tower and the Millennium Bridge, top, at sunset. Floating Dreams, is a compelling, large-scale installation situated in the centre of the River Thames by Millennium Bridge. Constructed from 500 drawings and illuminated from within, the three-storey-high lantern structure acts as a memorial to the millions displaced and divided during the Korean War (1950-53), and a poignant symbol of hope for the reunification of North and South Korea. IMG2406
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A major installation by Ik-Joong Kang, one of South Korea's most renowned and celebrated multimedia artists, “Floating Dreams” sits on a barge on London's River Thames, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, against a backdrop the Millennium Bridge, and a Bankside embankment lamp at sunset. Floating Dreams, is a compelling, large-scale installation situated in the centre of the River Thames by Millennium Bridge. Constructed from 500 drawings and illuminated from within, the three-storey-high lantern structure acts as a memorial to the millions displaced and divided during the Korean War (1950-53), and a poignant symbol of hope for the reunification of North and South Korea. MG1195
