If you haven’t heard, the Duluth Art Institute will soon be starting screenings of Robert Hughes’ Shock of the New, which is a fantastic eight-part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement. Not only will you be able to rest your eyes on the handsome and talented Robert Hughes, but you will be able to do it for free.

Screenings will be every Saturday at 11 a.m. from Feb. 11 to March 31.
Now for the even more fun stuff:

Have you dudes and dudettes ever heard of Ryan Gosling, museum lover? Well if you haven’t, here’s a link: museumheygirl.tumblr.com

We got a little inspired after logging way too much time on this site, and this blog was a product of that time well wasted:
roberthughesartloverdai.blogspot.com

Tangier 57 would like to invite you to take a little trip with us.

I ran into Marc Gartman last night, who had this item hot off Miss Zoey Cohen’s drawing pad.

Although I audibly groaned to myself at every stage of the Ween cover art controversy (starting with “Ween … and you?,” continuing with “Sex and Rock and Roll,” and finally dragging to a temporary halt with “This is what a feminist looks like”) I now personally endorse as much disagreement and debate about this as possible.

Inside Science News Service: The best wastewater treatment plants can’t filter out superbug fragments

Sorry, this is where my mind goes when I’m feeling ill and home alone from work for the day. So I started a test survey. It’s not perfect or definitive and really just a test so I can have a bit of crowd sourced data to try and put together in game form.  Once there’s a few entries, I’ll make a game out of it. I hope to refine the survey to better automate the process. So, take a few minutes and unleash your inner geek. BTW, This is NOT an official PDD sponsored thing and no folk bands will be hurt in the programming of this game.

(Note: If you find it a struggle to read this, scroll down to the first comment, where a helpful typist has provided a fresh version.)

Join us for a zombie-themed symposium that is free and open to the public. Six UMD professors will give talks about how their work relates to zombies. Refreshments appropriate for the topic will be served. BYOB (Bring Your Own Brain).

Lineup of talks:

John Schwetman (English) will discuss the “zombie” as a literary trope tied to the Apocalypse. He will trace the evolution of this trope from Haitian culture through George Romero’s “Living Dead” movies up to their appearance in Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. The zombie often serves as a euphemism for aspects of the human condition that are too unpleasant to confront more directly.

Scott Carlson (Psychology) will discuss how modern psychiatric definitions of what constitutes a mental disorder would apply to “zombie-ism”. Under what circumstances would the behavior exhibited by zombies qualify as a disorder? When would it not? What would the criteria for such a disorder look like? The implications for the rationale behind current psychiatric classification practices would be illustrated.

John Dahl (Biology) will discuss the discovery of prion-associated infectious diseases, particularly kuru, which was first identified in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Also known as “the laughing death,” kuru was spread by ritualized cannibalism and led to loss of motor skills and cognitive function and eventual death.

Tim Craig (Biology) will discuss how parasites can take over the brains of insects and other animals to manipulate their hosts for their own purposes. The parasitized host moves like a zombie into predator-infested areas where it behaves in a bizarre manner which insures it will be eaten. This is bad news for the host, but accomplishes the goal of the parasite: it moves on to attack its next host the predator.

David Cole (Philosophy) will discuss the “ethics of killing zombies” and focus on definitions of life and the ethics of suffering and behavior.

Edward Downs (Communication) will discuss the history of zombie-themed video games with potential benefits to society of playing these games.

Post your event info as a comment in this post, or email me from the HauntedDuluth.com contact page.

Top Secret America Government Work Locations

Notice the red dot on the zenith city. I go to a’thinkin .. hmmmm … what!? who? Jeno? Loll? Storm Analysis Consultants? Hmmm…