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Lessons of Odysseus
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On board S/Y Bushido
It has been three weeks of non-stop peregrinations in Greek waters, a mere bagatelle when compared with the tenyear quest of a certain tempest-tossed figure called Odysseus, which of course makes young Taki a rather dull sailor. No tasting of forbidden fruit, at least not too much, no growing drunk on love in the arms of the nymph Calypso - nor Keira or Mary, for that matter - no feelings of indescribable rapture upon hearing the sweet-tongued Sirens, just a long peaceful sail around the islands and sea that has always brought back pleasant memories from my childhood ...
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Santa Fe Celebrates Master Collaborator Donald Rubinstein: Cool-Aberrations in Art, Music and Film.
PR Newswire
; ...PRNewswire/ -- "Donald Rubinstein: Cool-Aberrations in Art, Music and Film" is to be presented...Rubinstein coined the term "cool-aberrations" as a mischievous expression of respect...to-be-released Circus Boy (Black Starlight Records, August, 2007) and Painted...
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In Common Hours
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...the latest of which, the digitally produced Aberration of Starlight, was completed last year. It is this body of...Time Being (2001), Free to Go (2003), and Aberration of Starlight (2008 ) . The irregular completion of the Adventures...
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A View from the Ridge
Magazine article from: Artforum
; ...ARCHIVE. 243 PAGES. $13. MULLIGAN STEW BY GILBERT SORRENTINO NORMAL, IL: DALKEY ARCHIVE. 446 PAGES. $14. ABERRATION OF STARLIGHT BY GILBERT SORRENTINO NORMAL, IL: DALKEY ARCHIVE. 211 PAGES. $13. SOMETHING SAID: ESSAYS BY GILBERT SORRENTINO...
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A Gilbert Sorrentino checklist.
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
; ...Sparrow Press, 1974. Mulligan Stew. New York: Grove, 1979; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996. Aberration of Starlight. New York: Random House, 1980; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993. Crystal Vision. San Francisco...
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Speed Limit
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...s continuous orbital movement and the finite speed of light. Thus did Bradley discover what is known as the aberration of starlight. Imagine an analogy: It's a rainy day, and you're sitting inside a car stuck in dense traffic. You...
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'Proof' of how the sun shines.(NEWS)
Magazine article from: Science & Spirit
; ...and circumstantial evidence. But only in 1728 could it be empirically tested by an experiment showing the aberration of starlight. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Similarly, the Gran Sasso laboratory, deep in the mountains near L'Aquila, has...
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What Einstein knew: one year and five papers that changed physics forever.(Einstein 1905 The Standard of Greatness)(The Einstein Almanac)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: American Scholar
; ...mistakes that were just mistakes. In his special relativity paper he clearly misinterpreted the deflection of starlight known as "aberration"--one of the principal phenomena he devised the theory to explain. It is also universally claimed that...
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Investigators at University of Minho publish new data on contact lens.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week
; ...conditions and wavefront aberrations to objectively corroborate...distortion index with the Starlights System v1.0 (Novosalud) and total wavefront aberration using a Hartmann-Shack...square for higher order aberrations, and luminous distortion...in reducing higher order aberrations to less ...
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China Exclusive: Sharpest telescope heralds China's ambition in deep space quest
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency
; ...simultaneously track space and decode starlight into enormous amounts of spectrographic...the dome would be removed, starlight would be reflected from the...to eliminate the spherical aberration of the primary mirror for...compensating for the spherical aberration of the primary mirror and...
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Hubble Report Faults Builder, NASA; Repeated Oversights, Laxity Found to Have Caused Telescope Flaw
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...gather and concentrate starlight from the heavens...experts call a spherical aberration in the orbiting observatory's main mirror. This aberration blurs the telescope...detected the spherical aberration. And on at least two...
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