Surrealism at Play by Susan Laxton

Impressionism and Surrealism in Multiparticle Dynamics

Peter Carruthers, the scientist, was a man of remarkable mathematical and physical culture. He had also something which is less common now a days, namely a profound physical intuition which guided him to approach in an original way the most interesting problems at a given moment and in this way he became a guide also for others. Multiparticle dynamics being by definition a many-body problem, it...

Executive Summa Ries Edited by Susan Albin

Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios

There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. Instead, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored “digital-surrealism” that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radi...

Susan Healy

than small ones, and that the method doesn’t work when the tube contains sawdust instead of water. Together with Bird and her student Lucy Cheke, Clayton transferred the Aesopian experiment to jays, demonstrating that the ability to use tools is a wider phenomenon in the corvid family, and not restricted to the Corvus genus. Confronting the jays with a range of variations of the experiment, the...

Eliciting Play: A Comparative Study (Octodon, Octodontomys, Pediolagus, Phoca, Choeropsis, Ailuropoda) SUSAN C. WILSON AND DEVRA

SYNOPSIS. The social play behavior of six mammalian species (Rodentia, Pinnipedia, Artiodactyla, Carnivora) is described and compared. Locomotor and Rotational Movements, e.g., jumping, running, and headshaking, occurred in all species and predominated in the rodent play. These movements are similar in form to anti-predator and "protective" responses and result in an immediate but temporary ces...