Cuba is the only country I know to erect a monument to the egg….and so it should. Located on Havana's Fifth Avenue, the simple sculpture pays homage to the salva vida-literally the life saver of many a Cuban family, particularly in the 1990s. Those were the worst years of what was euphemistically called the "Special Period," when the economy careened ever downward, reeling from the loss of 85% ...

1 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1830 Monument Street, Suite 2-300, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA 2 John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, E.D. Adrian Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK 3 Section of Retinal Ganglion Cell Biology, Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6 Center Drive,...

1 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1830 Monument Street, Suite 2-300, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA 2 John van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, E.D. Adrian Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, UK 3 Section of Retinal Ganglion Cell Biology, Laboratory of Retinal Cell and Molecular Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6 Center Drive,...

intervening in contemporary debates and hoping thereby to shape the future. Despite the occasional plangent note, Chedzgoy’s book celebrates the voices of the women she studies, voices that are often grieving and nostalgic, but also by turns witty, brittle, defiant, erudite, eccentric, and full of pluck. Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World is a dignified and elegant monument and memor...

This paper gives an overview over different photogrammetric single image techniques, like digital rectification, unwrapping of parametric surfaces and differential rectification methods. It shows the new possibilities for the generation of orthoimages and image mosaics using digital image processing methods even on low-cost personal computers. After a short description of the implemented method...

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine is an imposing monument to the wealth and power of scientific medicine. Set on its own block in upper Manhattan, its rhetorical centre is the Stern Auditorium. Here, just over a year after 9/11, a group of gurus and self-seekers assembled to confer on the nature of the self. I was there too, looking for help in constructing a grand unified theory of soul and b...

Este ensaio aborda uma forma monumental antiga e muito disseminada no mundo – o obelisco suas variações para refletir sobre a importância desse artefato estético sociocultural até último século, quando passa interagir com questões oriundas dos debates propostos pela “arte pública”. Considerando os usos históricos contemporâneos monumentos verticais não figurativos, abordo algumas intervenções i...

This essay explores monuments, including the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, and gravestones Jewish cemeteries Montreal Vancouver. Alongside these sites it considers how Canadian literature presents possibilities for history language to mark landscape though a consideration of Leonard Cohen Eli Mandel. A discussion monuments is relevant light recent demonstrations focused on removing sta...

Overlooking the town of San Gabriel in Mexico stands a monument which attracts aficionados Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Paramo. inspired creation fictional Comala, deserted haunted by past residents. The main objective paper was to explore, from conceptual perspective lieux de imagination (Reijnders, 2011) whether some imagine that is Comala. Furthermore, considering dark characteristics possibilit...