A century ago, there was a race to make the first color photos. Now there’s a race to save them.

Click Here to Read: A century ago, there was a race to make the first color photos. Now there’s a race to save them. The revolutionary invention of autochromes changed photography. As those pictures decay, they’re revealing a new kind of beauty By Katy Kelleher in the National Geographic on July 21, 2025.

Early color photo of Agen, France, by Louis Ducos du Hauron, 1877. The cathedral in the scene is the Cathédrale Saint-Caprais d’Agen. Image: Louis Ducos du Hauron (1837 – 1920).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Trump and the E.U. Have a Blueprint for a Giant Trade Deal. Is it Good for Europe?

Click Here to Read: Trump and the E.U. Have a Blueprint for a Giant Trade Deal. Is it Good for Europe? Both sides hailed the agreement as the biggest ever. But it will come at a cost to the European Union, and many details have yet to be nailed down By Jeanna Smialek in The New York Times on July 28, 2025.

Image: Climate 2025  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

 

New eBook for Shevrin Festschift Available on Kindle

Click Here to Purchase: The Science of Psychoanalysis: The Realization of Freud’s Promise: Festschrift in Honor of Howard Shevrin eBook on Amazon.com.

From the Editor, Robert Hunt Berry:

“This very rewarding enterprise of Howard Shevrin has provided unique and comprehensive paradigms that give many psychoanalytic constructs a special empirical accessibility and richness . . .
Whereas the Shevrin enterprise mostly has focused upon psychoanalytic research legacies, there also have been contributions in areas that are clinical, theoretical, scholarly, and literary . . .

The headwinds against psychoanalysis are strong, and especially in realms of academic research. Continue reading New eBook for Shevrin Festschift Available on Kindle