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and what s a bit of both? so hang on for a wild ride. for in nature, and in the world of animals, the truth is always stranger than fiction. just ask the kangaroo that lives in the tree or the dog with webbed feet or the bird that can look an elephant in the eye or the frog that looks like a tomato or any other astonishing animal you might meet. let s start with a startli statement. that s both so false and so true. confused? consider this. the river or nile hippopotamus, which is the great behemoth pachyderm most of us are familiar with, as well as the much smaller and much rarer pygmy hippopotamus, don t have true sweat glands. a thick red substance from their pores called, yes, blood sweat. okay, it s not blood, and its not sweat. but it does make the pygmy hippo shine. it even creates a foam behind the animal s ears. despite being thick-skinned, hippos have very sensitive skin that needs to be k kt wet most of the day, which is why, more often than not, if you happe ....
the first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable they ve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. there s no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. but it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself planck s quantum theory, einstein s theory of relativity, freud s work on psychoanalysis. it was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the tragedies of modern western history. ....
captioning made possible by the annenberg/cpb project the first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable they ve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. there s no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. but it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself planck s quantum theory, einstein s theory of relativity, freud s work on psychoanalysis. it was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic wor ....
captioning made possible by the annenberg/cpb project the first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable they ve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. there s no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. but it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself planck s quantum theory, einstein s theory of relativity, freud s work on psychoanalysis. it was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic wor ....
the chinese or worcester patterns. i like to do my own slight variations, but on porcelain shapes made at worcester, fired in the factory kilns to a very high temperature. so my part is doing the painting in blue, and it was sealed there for all time. and this lovely these are nasturtiums, are they? what are those? uh, lotus. lotus, ah. they were growing in the park in hong kong. i always liked whenever i m traveling, i take a sketchbook, and i do little sketches, and then i work them out into porcelain designs afterwards. oh, that s beautifully drawn. and so what do you do with them? do you just keep them yourself? do you are you gonna sell them? what do you do? yes, this is really a hobby at the moment. i mean, one day, i think i d like to have my own kiln and make porcelain. but at the moment, i just enjoy doing it and again continuing to learn from it, how difficult it is to make porcelain. yes. well, john, it s always fascinating to find out what our experts do ....