Thesis Supervisor: Chris Csikszentmihalyi Title: Director, Computing Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab In contemporary Western society, electronic devices are becoming so prevalent that many people find themselves surrounded by technologies they find frustrating or annoying. The electronics industry has little incentive to address this complaint; I designed two counter-technologies to help peo...

In contemporary Western society, electronic devices are becoming so prevalent that many people find themselves surrounded by technologies they find frustrating or annoying. The electronics industry has little incentive to address this complaint; I designed two counter-technologies to help people defend their personal space from unwanted electronic intrusion. Both devices were designed and proto...

David Lynch's film Blue Velvet threatens to make interpretation redundant, so openly does it flaunt its Freudian themes and narrative. Its protagonist, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), is an Oedipal hero. His real father is struck down (by a heart attack); he sets out on a journey, encounters woman as enigma, woman as symbolic mother figure, and makes love to her; finally, he kills the murde...

Culture and Explosion de Juri Lotman / LOTMAN, Explosion, édité par Marina Grishakova et traduit du russe Wilma Clark, Berlin ; New York, Mouton Gruyter, 2009, 296 p.. Un article la revue Cygne noir (Cygne noir) diffusée plateforme Érudit.

Resveratrol is positively correlated with grapevine disease resistance and its consumption is also highly beneficial to human health. HPLC analyses showed that resveratrol content was significantly higher in most wild Chinese grapevines than in most European Vitis vinifera grapevine cvs. Fruit of the wild Chinese genotype Vitis quinquangularis Danfeng-2 contains much higher levels of resveratro...

This article discusses transnational television and what strategies public service broadcaster NRK Drama has pursued to make the Norwegian crime series Monster: Brutally Far North travel. Monster was first Norwegian-language bought by a major American cable network, Starz. Using concept of production values, we argue that made is able ride Nordic noir wave success while also offering new northe...