Synesthesia as a basis for metaphor and art?

Matrix masters podcast 118 features an hour lecture with Vilayanur S. Ramachandran MD, PhD, a professor of Neurosciences at UC SanDiago. He focuses half of the talk on one my personal favorite fringe topics, synesthesia and the other on art. He essentially gives a scientific explanation for humans’ desire for visual art and also sticks it to Western Art History. Installments like this are...

Peeps You Should (maybe) Know of the Day : Uri Geller

I’m starting a segment called – peeps you should (maybe) know of the day. There are a lot of people if have heard names of stumbled upon on Wikipedia that seem interesting in my mind. Today’s installment is Uri Geller. I first looked up Uri in 2006 on Wikipedia. I had heard the name before and had no idea who the guy was. In short, he is the 70s equivalent of Chris Angel but a...