Though some may fault them for being gross over-generalizations, these descriptions take the recognizable essence of each painter’s work and put it in very easy words that anyone can understand and, more importantly, remember.
So Brazil are through to the semi-finals but their hero Neymar is out of the competition with fractured vertebrae. Whatever next? The current World Cup in Brazil has given us some really tense games...
When impoverished inventor Nikola Tesla died in New York City, the U.S. government confiscated his notes. Why? Were they trying to steal his technology? Did they ever relinquish the notes?
Scientists have identified boredom as “an aversive state of wanting, but being unable, to engage in satisfying activity”, which arises from failures in one of the brain’s attention networks. But why we get bored and why is it important?
Protesters in Spain have come up with a novel way of taking on a new law that limits the rights of the public to take part in demonstrations.
