Click Here to Read: Hot Nights at the Barbican by Paul Levy on his Plain English blog on July 1, 2019.
Studio floor used by Jackson Pollock at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs, New York. The studio is in an old barn behind the house. Pollock had the building moved, put a wood floor down and used it as his primary painting surface from 1946 until his death in 1956. When he renovated in 1953, he put down a masonite covering. Krasner started to use the room in 1957. Upon her death in 1984, ownership was transferred to Stony Brook University, who removed the covering, discovered the old surface, and had it restored in 1987-8.15 August 2015, 15:39:06
Photo: Rododendrites. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Should We Love Our Country? Fourth of July ruminations on the nation-state and the state of the nation By Paul Berman on the Tablet website on July 2, 2019.
July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C. 2008 Photo: Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Click Here to Read: A New “Law” Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year: Quantum computers are improving at a doubly exponential rate By Kevin Hartnett on the Scientific American Quanta Magazine website on June 21, 2019.
A zooming in on a wafer of D-Wave Vesuvius architecture. Photo by Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
