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Borrowed Dreams: Joseph Cornell and the Archive as Psychic Imprint
By Stephen Broomer
DOI:10.15664/fcj.v19i0.2391
Borrowed Dreams: Joseph Cornell and the Archive as Psychic Imprint by Stephen Broomer from Frames Cinema Journal on Vimeo.
This video essay is occasioned by a groundswell of scholarship on the interrelated fields of the found footage experimental film, the compilation film, and the motion picture archive. This scholarship is reflected in recent publications by Catherine Russell and Jaimie Baron and attended to in the broader critical climate by the proliferation of exhibitions and articles that have attempted in recent years to address the historical impetus for this growing body of work. The neologism archiveology denotes a practice that draws from, as Catherine Russell puts it, "an 'image bank' of collective memories," declaring that the moving image collection has been cast far from the rigid formality of the museum, and is now a process in itself of uncovering and exploring.[1] Such practice finds a natural parallel in the curio-hunting Big Digs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial archaeology. The archaeological metaphor and its mystical portents are uniquely suitable for the subject at hand, Joseph Cornell, the Howard Carter of the twentieth-century American junk shop. While this video essay features discursive narration, it is simultaneously engaged in remixing the poetic properties of images – by mirroring and building upon Cornell's aesthetic strategies. In his reflections on Joseph Cornell, poet Charles Simic offers this metaphor: "the near darkness of old churches and old movies is that of dreams," a suggestion of the reciprocity between the archive and the talismanic depths of modern art.[2]
Joseph Cornell remains most widely recognised for his boxed assemblages. The neglect of his films relative to his boxes may invite dismissal as novelty, as a prototype for what would follow, be that the found footage experimental film, or in more contemporary terms, fandom and the supercut. In response to this limited perspective, Borrowed Dreams begins with a prologue that joins crucial passages from Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936) with dialogue from its source, East of Borneo (1931). Much has been made of the identification between Cornell and Hobart, of Hobart as symbol and as a woman recovered from the artifice of cinema itself, what Catherine Russell has identified as "the awakening of the woman and an inscription of her everyday humanity into film history."[3] However, Rose Hobart has eclipsed both its namesake and the film from which it is derived. This prologue, in which Linda Randolph (Rose Hobart) empathises with a chimp over their shared predicament of being held against their will, underscores not only themes that are poignant in light of Cornell's project ("they like making things captive in this place"), but is also likely to give the majority of viewers their first experience of hearing Hobart's voice. Such is the neglect of her own work, in the shadow of Cornell's tribute to her face.
Borrowed Dreams explores the foundations of Cornell's filmmaking, focusing on his films that are most open in their construction – those begun in his pre-war phase, often imprecisely dated and, in some cases, abandoned for decades.[4] This video essay inquires into his process, theme, and technique, and in doing so, it offers the archive as a site of psychic provocation. It considers Cornell's processes of collaboration and interaction with the image, with history, and with individuals. It addresses his themes of sacred innocence found in the avatars and entertainments of children. Finally, it addresses his use of a plate of tinted glass to cast a nocturnal atmosphere onto the image, and his use of the splice as a means to join disparate spaces (as in Kuleshov's concept of creative geography) and eyelines (as in Kuleshov's theory of montage), a simple means of opening onto new perceptions. Cornell's splice, made with an openness to the inference of the viewer, plots new and flexible meanings into his root images.[5] It is this last matter, of technique, that is communicated formally throughout Borrowed Dreams, a means of clarifying Cornell's approach, which Marjorie Keller has described as an equivocating edit, by remixing his films and integrating them with other related objects of study. This can be seen in the intercutting of Un Chien Andalou with Rose Hobart, through which Pierre Batcheff and Luis Buñuel both stand in for temperamental Salvador Dalì as they observe Hobart, and in the intercutting of naval scenes from The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) with scenes of marine exploration taken from Cornell's Bookstalls (ca. 1930s). Such splices demonstrate the psychic impressions that appropriated images conjure when positioned in new sequences.
The structure of this video essay is episodic, with each of its three parts dealing with a distinctive aspect of Cornell's films. Part one, preceding and following a quotation from Jodi Hauptman on the thematic potency of the eclipse, deals with Rose Hobart, its relation to Surrealism, the particular impact of its gesture, and the nocturnal spell of its tinting. Part two, marked by a quotation from Standish Lawder on the ambiguous purpose of the recycled image, deals with the legacy of the compilation film and Cornell's formal and thematic distinction from that field and, in particular, the work of Esfir Shub. Part three begins with a quotation from Marjorie Keller, on Cornell's approach to editing as a means of equivocating subjects, and it involves the material Keller was primarily responding to, the films known as The Children's Trilogy (ca. 1940s, finished 1969), bringing them into dialogue with the concept of deriving meaning from the impact of sequential ordering.
Borrowed Dreams argues on behalf of the unique power of the hard cut, of a splice to join presences across space and time. The splice is integral to the psychic properties of Cornell's work, which ties his films to the oneiric dimensions of the Surrealists and to the psychological interiority of the American trance film.[6] The imagery and atmosphere that he develops may suggest reverie or the dream, while the hard cut is an unambiguous act of cinema. Those closest to Cornell have attested in the years since his death that he occupied "the thin line between dreaming and waking."[7] The bulk of Cornell's films liberally borrow from scraps of industrial cinema, but there is no illusion of what Jaimie Baron refers to as the "truth-value" and "evidentiary authority" of the archival image, with Cornell focused solely on the patterns and relations formed by newfound contexts.[8] The psychic imprint of the archival image holds through his disciplined restraint and the slow unfolding of imagery in long and patient takes, an operation brought on by the complex interiority of shot relations. The found footage film would shift in another direction forty years after Rose Hobart, influenced by the unlikely combination of both Stan Brakhage and the structuralists, abandoning the psychic trinity of Cornell and his successors Bruce Conner and Arthur Lipsett (an archival cinema that gives way instead to the readymade form of the "perfect film", via Ken Jacobs) in favour of a plastic turn, marking the image in violent ways with paint and chemistry, or by further machining an image's rhythm through optical printers. These psychic and plastic strains in found footage filmmaking can be best understood in relationship to one another, with the psychic interiorising history and images past, and the plastic externalising the rage and pleasure of the present moment.
In the oneiric patchwork of his subject matter, Cornell invites comparisons to his contemporaries and fellow New Yorkers Joe Gould and Harry Smith, amateur archivists of a similar mentality for whom daily experience became a storehouse of observations worthy of transcription and recall. Cornell's relation to his materials might be further clarified by considering the collections of Gould and Smith. Gould, notoriously exposed as the naked emperor of Greenwich Village, had claimed to have spent decades writing An Oral History of Our Time. It was endorsed by his patrons and friends as an epic work, but when he died it came out that there was no intact manuscript.[9] Smith, known between spheres as one of American folk culture's great chroniclers and as a maker of experimental films, is also known to have collected string figures and paper airplanes and other, more sundry and intimate specimens.[10] As Borrowed Dreams demonstrates in the thread of his recycled images, Cornell, like Gould and Smith, maintained a passion for the ephemeral. Cornell's films had transient, anonymous, dreamlike tendencies that testify to a willingness he had, by contrast to Smith and in accord with Gould, to loosen the reins, to allow the debris of incomplete gestures to gather in his wake.
[1] Catherine Russell, Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 1.
[2] Charles Simic, Dime-Story Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1992), 57.
[3] Russell, 205.
[4] Without a definitive catalogue raisonné of his films, Cornell's consideration by archives is far from authoritative. In the absence of authority, objects from Cornell's film collection, works in progress, and possibly finished films have all at times been treated as finished works, as in the case of The Children's Jury, dated 1938 but only regarded as 'attributed to' Cornell.
[5] Throughout Borrowed Dreams and in this text, Cornell's work features in a context that includes Soviet compilation filmmaking and montage theory; while there are no definitive claims to be made about his awareness of the dynamic strategies developing in Russia, it seems likely from his broad reading, his moviegoing, and his friendships with critics such as Jay Leyda that he would have an active awareness of the discourse. This work makes no claim that Cornell is interacting with these theories with intention, let alone precision: Cornell's filmmaking, judging by the films he made alone – Rose Hobart, Bookstalls, By Night with Torch and Spear – was intuitive and improvisatory, not an act of theoretical proofing.
[6] P. Adams Sitney, who coined the term, defines the trance film as featuring "a somnambulistic hero wandering through an imposing landscape." P. Adams Sitney, "The Idea of Morphology," Film Culture 53-55 (Spring 1972).
[7] Catherine Corman, Joseph Cornell's Dreams (Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 2007), 134. Corman quotes Lawrence Jordan at length, as he describes Cornell's navigation of dream and waking life: "He took naps on the front room sofa for three or four hours and would get up directly out of a dream and put something together. He didn't come out of that world like you or I do."
[8] Jaimie Baron, The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History (London: Routledge, 2014).
[9] Gould, made famous and exposed through Joseph Mitchell's Joe Gould's Secret, was defended in Jill Lepore's Joe Gould's Teeth (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016), which provides evidentiary benchmarks for the premise that Gould's manuscript existed in many different forms over decades.
[10] Smith's collections present a fascinating challenge to valuations of objects in relation to the history of the motion picture. An argument could be made that his collections of paper string figures and paper airplanes are, as dynamic found objects, paracinematic.
Baron, Jaimie. The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History. London: Routledge, 2014.
Corman, Catherine. Joseph Cornell's Dreams. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 2007.
Dyshlyuk, Liubov. "Esfir Shub: Selected Writings." Feminist Media Histories 2 (3) (2016): 11–28.
Hauptman, Jodi. Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
Keller, Marjorie. The Untutored Eye: Childhood in the Films of Cocteau, Cornell, and Brakhage. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1986.
Lawder, Standish. "Comments on the Collage Film," in Found Footage Film. Lucerne: VIPER/zyklop, 1992.
Lepore, Jill. Joe Gould's Teeth. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.
Leyda, Jay. Films Beget Films: a study of the compilation film. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1964.
Russell, Catherine. Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018.
Simic, Charles. Dime-Story Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1992.
Auguste and Louis Lumìere, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, directed by Auguste and Louis Lumìere (1895; La Ciotat; Société Lumière; home video release 2015), 35mm.
Frederick S. Armitage, Davy Jones's Locker, directed by Frederick S. Armitage (1903; production location unknown; American Mutoscope & Biograph; home video release 2008), 35mm.
Frederick S. Armitage, Neptune's Daughters, directed by Frederick S. Armitage (1903; production location unknown; American Mutoscope & Biograph; home video release 2008), 35mm.
Frederick S. Armitage, Nymph of the Waves, directed by Frederick S. Armitage (1903; production location unknown; American Mutoscope & Biograph; home video release 2008), 35mm.
Esfir Shub, The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, directed by Esfir Shub (1927; Moscow; Sovkino; home video release 2002), 35mm.
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalì, Un chien andalou, directed by Luis Buñuel (1929; Le Havre and Paris; Les Grands Films Classiques; home video release 2011), 35mm.
Joseph Cornell, Bookstalls, directed by Joseph Cornell (undated, circa 1930s; New York; The Voyager Foundation; home video release 2004), 16mm.
George Melford, East of Borneo, directed by George Melford (1931; Los Angeles; Universal Studios; home video release 2004), 35mm.
Joseph Cornell, Rose Hobart, directed by Joseph Cornell (1936; New York; The Voyager Foundation; home video release 2004), 16mm.
Joseph Cornell, The Children's Jury, directed by Joseph Cornell (1938; New York; ; home video release), 16mm.
Joseph Cornell, Cotillion, directed by Joseph Cornell (undated, circa 1940s, finished 1968; New York; The Voyager Foundation; home video release 2004), 16mm.
Joseph Cornell, The Midnight Party, directed by Joseph Cornell (undated, circa 1940s, finished 1968; New York; The Voyager Foundation; home video release 2004), 16mm.
Joseph Cornell, The Children's Party, directed by Joseph Cornell (undated, circa 1940s, finished 1968; New York; Image Entertainment; home video release 2008), 16mm.
Joseph Cornell, By Night with Torch and Spear, directed by Joseph Cornell (undated, circa 1940s, finished 1972; New York; Image Entertainment; home video release 2008), 16mm.
Maya Deren, At Land, directed by Maya Deren (1944; Amangansett, Long Island; Re:voir; home video release 2020), 16mm.
Kenneth Anger, Fireworks, directed by Kenneth Anger (1947; Los Angeles; Puck Film Productions; home video release 2011), 16mm.
Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker and writer. His books include Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film (CFMDC, 2017), and he is presently completing a critical biography of collage filmmaker Arthur Lipsett. His films were recently the subject of a retrospective at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. He has taught video essaying at University of Toronto. Broomer is also the host of Art & Trash, an ongoing web series on underground, avant-garde, psychotronic and outsider media. In 2020, he began a study of the poetics of home movies while serving as a Fulbright visiting scholar at University of California Santa Cruz and the Prelinger Library. Most recently, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University, sponsored by the International Council for Canadian Studies.

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Peach is a new media-first social communications app for iOS, developed by Dom Hofmann, cofounder of Vine (which was acquired by Twitter in October 2012 for $30 million and has since been integrated into Twitter).
Peach is a multipurpose app that embraces the sharing zeitgeist of social communications services, but it differentiates itself by applying a sophisticated search capability to on and offline resources.
The question is whether Peach is different enough to survive in an already crowded market.
"Peach is an app that's trying to be a little bit of everything," says Pamela Clark-Dickson, Research Analyst, Ovum.
"It's a social media app where users can post content, add friends (including brands), and follow "spaces" (i.e. pages).
"Users can set their privacy to "friends" or "friends of friends" for now. It's a bit like the enterprise messaging app Slack in that it uses what appears to be a bot-based search function, called "Magic Words," to allow users to easily access resources and applications on their device.
For now, Clark-Dickson believes it's the Magic Words capability that sets Peach apart from its peers.
With "magic" words such as "battery," "event," "browser," and "song," Peach can return information to the user from applications on their device or give them easy access to resources such as their music library or the Internet.
As Clark-Dickson explains, Magic Words also allows users to draw, search for a GIF, "shout" (i.e. write in big letters on a coloured background or over a photo), and share information about movies, TV shows, video games, and books on their space.
In addition, information about Magic Words is easily found within the app.
"The use of bots and artificial intelligence in communications apps is growing, but the market for these apps remains nascent, with most apps either in development or at beta stage," Clark-Dickson adds.
There's no doubt that Peach is an innovative app that pushes the boundaries of what a communications app can do, but as Clark-Dickson points out, there are key features that it does not yet have.
Some of these features are already in development, such as direct messaging and cross-platform support.
However, there is no indication that Peach will move further into the communications space to add VoIP and video calling, which have become standard features on other social communications apps.
"Although Magic Words is not yet as sophisticated in scope as, say, Operator or Assist, what is interesting is that brands are already starting to engage with Peach, in much the same way as with Twitter and Facebook," Clark-Dickson adds.


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J. Phillip London
Chairman of CACI International
Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman; Director of the Company since 1981. Under Dr. London's leadership, CACI has grown from a small...
Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman; Director of the Company since 1981. Under Dr. London's leadership, CACI has grown from a small professional services consulting firm to become a major international pacesetter in information technology and communications solutions markets. CACI became a Fortune 1000 company in 2006. Dr. London joined CACI in 1972. He was elected President and Chief Executive Officer in 1984 and Chairman of the Board in 1990. On July 1, 2007, Dr. London was appointed to Chairman of the Board and Executive Chairman. He has been a director since 1981. Dr. London is currently a director and member of the Executive Committee of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and was formerly a member of the Senior Advisory Board of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. Dr. London serves on the Board of Directors of Advanced Blast Protection, Inc., the U.S. Naval Institute, the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, the Naval Historical Foundation and the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History. Dr. London is also a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Navy League, the Naval Order of the U.S.A., the American Legion, and the Association of the U.S. Army. Dr. London holds a B.S. in Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, a M.S. in Operations Research from the United States Naval Postgraduate School, and a Doctorate in Business Administration, conveyed with distinction, from the George Washington University School of Business and Public Management. Early in his career, Dr. London served as a Naval Aviator. Dr. London holds the rank of Captain, U.S. Navy Reserve (Retired). Dr. London has received numerous awards over the years for his business and civic accomplishments, including the John W. Dixon Award from the Association of the U.S. Army, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Government IT Services, the Earl C. Williams Award for Leadership in Technology, the KPMG Peat Marwick High Tech Entrepreneur Award, the Albert Einstein Award for Technology Achievement in the Defense Fields, and the U.S. Navy League's Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award for his exemplary contributions to the enhancement of U.S. maritime strength and national security. In addition, Dr. London has been recognized by the Human Resources Leadership Award of Greater Washington, in its annual awards program, through the establishment of its Ethics in Business Award named in his honor.
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Wyoming Health Department Reports Eighth COVID-19 Death
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A Northern Arapaho tribal member and Fremont County resident has died from COVID-19, raising the statewide death from the disease to eight, according to the Wyoming Department of Health and the tribe late Saturday.
The deceased was an older hospitalized woman who had existing health conditions that put her at higher risk related to the illness and was previously identified as a laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 case, the department reported.
She also was the fifth member of the tribe to have died from the disease. Four had died on April 20, according to the Northern Arapaho Business Council, which has strongly urged its members to take steps to slow the spread of the disease
There now have been eight reported deaths, 559 lab-confirmed cases and 182 probable cases reported so far from across Wyoming, the department reported earlier Saturday.
Of the total confirmed cases, 498 have recovered.
Three new cases in Natrona County were reported on Saturday, bringing the county's total to 43 plus 10 probable cases, according to the Casper-Natrona County Health Department.
The Wyoming Department of Health again offers these recommendations to help slow the spread of illness:
Follow current public health orders.
Stay home when sick and avoid contact with other people unless you need medical attention.
Follow common-sense steps such as washing your hands often and well; covering your coughs and sneezes; and cleaning and disinfecting.
Wear cloth face coverings in public setting where social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.
Older people and those with health conditions that mean they have a higher chance of getting seriously ill should avoid close-contact situations.
Disease symptoms, which may appear two to 14 days after virus exposure, include fever, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell.
Practicing Self-Care Is Crucial During These Times: Here's How to Do It
Here are some tips for self-care during the pandemic:
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Computer Systems and Data Science Laboratory
About Dr. Jun Wang, IEEE Fellow
Jun Wang's achievements
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Our Computer Systems and Data Science (CASS) laboratory have primary research interests which cover a wide spectrum in the areas of high-performance computing and storage systems. A common thread among our research projects focuses on fast data access and resource sharing with cost- and energy-efficient management at different levels of memory and storage hierarchies in supercomputer, parallel, and distributed computer systems. More recently, CASS research interests cover the areas of interdisciplinary computing, computer architecture, and low-power computing. A significant complementary thread among CASS's extensive research projects emphasizes developing new software tools and hardware platforms to stimulate advances in science and engineering research, where large digital data collections are increasingly prevalent. CASS research projects have been sponsored by several federal funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and NASA.
Professor Jun Wang has been elevated for the IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2022 for contributions to low-power disk storage system design.
Professor Wang is serving as Program Co-Chair for the 29th IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, December 18-21, 2022, Bangalore, India, and the 16th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2022) will be held at Philadelphia, PA.
SHF: Small: Revamping I/O Architectures Using Machine Learning Techniques on Big Compute Machines.
NSF PPoSS Planning: Data-Centric Computing for Scalable Heterogeneous Memory and Storage Systems Architecture.
SHF: Small: Developing a Highly Efficient and Accurate Approximation System for Warehouse-Scale Computers with the Sub-dataset Distribution Aware Approach.
© 2023 Computer Systems and Data Science Laboratory


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Biblical Truths: The Meaning Of Scripture In The Twenty-first Century
byDale B. Martin
February 21, 2017|
A leading biblical scholar's landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries
How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue to recite the traditional creeds and confessions of the Christian church? What does the Bible mean and how do we verify biblical truths? In this groundbreaking book, a leading biblical scholar urges readers to be more creative interpreters of biblical texts, mapping out an alternative way of reading that is not first and foremost about understanding what those texts would have meant for the original authors and readers.
Limiting our study to the ancient meaning of the text, he argues, has produced either bad history, or bad theology, or both. One cannot derive robustly orthodox Christian doctrine or theology from a mere "historical" interpretation of the Bible. Martin offers instead theological readings of the New Testament that are faithful to Christian orthodoxy as generally understood, but without attempting a "foundationalist" understanding of the meaning of the text. His provocative and ambitious book demonstrates how theology and scripture can remain vital in the twenty-first century.
Dale B. Martin is Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His numerous books include New Testament History and Literature.
Title:Biblical Truths: The Meaning Of Scripture In The Twenty-first Century
Format:Hardcover
Published:February 21, 2017
Publisher:Yale University Press


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Why Do Many Mistakenly Think Human Blood Is Sometimes Blue? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture It's hard to disprove a falsehood when it seems to fit so seamlessly with other true, if poorly understood, propositions — and that's what's going on here, it would seem, says Alva Noë.
Blood is red to the naked eye. Under a microscope, it depends.
This isn't because it isn't really red, but rather because its redness is a macroscopic feature. Human blood is red because hemoglobin, which is carried in the blood and functions to transport oxygen, is iron-rich and red in color.
Octopuses and horseshoe crabs have blue blood. This is because the protein transporting oxygen in their blood, hemocyanin, is actually blue.
The blood of a vulcan is green, according to the story anyway, and this is presumably because the stuff that carries oxygen in the vulcan's blood is green.
But our blood is red. It's bright red when the arteries carry it in its oxygen-rich state throughout the body. And it's still red, but darker now, when it rushes home to the heart through the veins.
I bring this up because I've noticed that there are a fair number of people — some of the 7th graders my son goes to school with, some teachers, too, who ought to know better, as well as lots of people who have published online — who say that blood inside the body is sometimes blue.
Here is some evidence that this isn't true.
When I was 12, I was in an accident and my left wrist was ripped open so that I could see into my arm. Everything was red. Blood was shooting out of my arteries and sloshing out of my veins. And all of it was red.
Here's another piece of evidence. If you get blood drawn, the liquid that comes from your vein into the vacuum sealed container is, plainly, red.
We also know why it is red, as already noted. It's red because of the red blood cells (hemoglobin). Blood does change color somewhat as oxygen is absorbed and replenished. But it doesn't change from red to blue. It changes from red to dark red.
It is true that veins, which are sometimes visible through the skin, may look bluish. Why should this be so? Click here if you want the full story. But the short of it is this: It has to do with the way tissue absorbs, scatters and reflects light. (I think this also explains why your lips look blue when you get cold.) But if you were to open one of your veins, or cut your lip, even when you're cold, there'd be nothing blue at all about the liquid that would pour forth.
Maybe it is the fact that veins look bluish that explains the myth that blood is blue as it flows through the veins?
Or could the answer lie elsewhere? By convention arteries are drawn red in textbooks and veins blue. Could it be that people have taken this to be a guide to their actual color?
I think this is worth understanding. It's a politically neutral example of a bit of falsehood that seems resistant to information. At a time when ignorant people openly challenge scientific knowledge about such important matters as the safety of vaccines or the dangers posed by the burning of fossil fuels, it seems worthwhile to try to understand why some bad ideas are so immune to revision.
Here's a hypothesis: The problem is not outright ignorance. You can imagine children — who may have never seen an accident, or been cut, or had blood drawn or taken a biology class — who might gullibly believe that blood is blue, because someone told them so. Even people who have been cut, or have witnessed an accident scene, or had blood drawn, cleave to the conviction of blood's sometime blueness. Such conviction and confidence when everything — when all the evidence — speaks loudly against, can only be the result of some prejudice or bias. But what? Why?
A little knowledge, it turns out, can be a dangerous thing. It's hard to disprove a falsehood when it seems to fit so seamlessly with other true, if poorly understood, propositions. That's what's going on here, it would seem. Take a little blood chemistry, exposure to textbooks and the sight of your own naked arms, and you get a perfect ecosystem in which to nourish a manifestly false belief.
Thanks to Ulysses Noë for adding to this discussion.


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Denis Shafikov to continue 130-pound campaign in Hollywood
by Francisco Salazar
After a rough stretch of decision losses, Denis Shafikov is adamant he can still win a world title belt.
Shafikov returns to the ring Wednesday night, when he squares off against Hector Suarez in a 10-round bout at The Avalon in Hollywood, California.
Shafikov (38-4-1, 20 knockouts) lost a close, 10-round split decision to fringe contender Rene Alvarado in his last bout on Dec. 9, his first bout at 130 pounds after fighting at or above lightweight for his entire career.
In his previous fight on June 30, the 33-year-old Shafikov challenged Robert Easter for the IBF lightweight title, losing a unanimous decision in a fight that was closer than the 120-108, 120-108 and 116-112 scorecards reflected.
The southpaw Shafikov, who is originally from Russia and now resides in Big Bear Lake, California, has fought for the IBF lightweight on two other occasions, losing to Miguel Vazquez in 2014 and Rances Barthelemy in December 2015.
Shafikov does have victories over lightweight contenders Richard Commey and Jamel Herring.
Despite losing three of his last five fights, Shafikov, who is trained by Abel Sanchez, will continue to compete at 130 pounds.
Suarez (12-6-1, 6 KOs) lost an eight-round decision to unbeaten prospect Hector Tanajara Jr. on April 6. Suarez, who resides in Ensenada, Mexico, has lost his last two bouts after winning his previous seven.
The Shafikov-Suarez fight will headline a scheduled eight-bout "Hollywood Fight Nights" card.
Former amateur standout and unbeaten featherweight Mario Ramos (4-0, 4 KOs) will face Guadalupe Arroyo (3-11) in a six-round bout.
Brian Ceballo (2-0, 1 KO) will square off against Adan Ahumada (3-4-2, 2 KOs) in a four-round welterweight bout.
Junior flyweight Louisa Hawton (7-1, 3 KOs) of Australia will face Elvia Trevino (2-3) in a six-round bout. Hawton lost her last fight to Anahi Torres on Feb. 24.
Junior featherweight Luis Rosales (7-1-1, 3 KOs) will square off against Roberto Pucheta (10-13-1, 6 KOs) in a six-round bout.
Francisco A. Salazar can be reached by email at [email protected] or on Twitter at FSalazarBoxing.


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Your husband can cook! Wow! How lucky!
That's the general reaction I get from girl friends who come to know of my hubby's forays in the kitchen. It's a dream come true for many women. In most Indian households, at least, it's usually the women who do the cooking. Even if one loves the art of cooking, not to mention the pleasure of eating, the day-to-day task of preparing a meal for the family remains a tedious chore. Hovering incessantly over our heads like a dark cloud is the eternal question: What to cook for dinner? So when women come across another who's husband actually cooks, there is a tendency to swoon in ecstasy and exclaim, "Oh, how lucky you are!"
I'm one of those fortunate ones. Or am I? My husband loves to cook. He says it relieves stress and helps him relax. So every once in a while he reigns in on my kitchen for some therapy. "Honey, just sit back and relax," he says. "I'll cook dinner tonight." Now, my husband is a high-class chef. Not for him the mundane dishes like daal and rice. He likes to whip up cuisine with exotic-sounding names like Shrimp Fettuccine, Rogan Josh, Lamb Pasanda, Yakhani biryani, and Nawabi egg curry.
So the big question is, "Do I get a break that night?" Of course not!
I'm the one who has to scout around in shops for the essentials ? that particular condiment, the purest Spanish saffron, the freshest organic lettuce, the perfect leg of lamb, the largest shrimp, and on and on goes the list. I'm the one who has to wash and chop the veggies, hack the meat senseless, peel and devein the shrimp.
He can't chop onions, as they tend to irritate his lacrimal glands (In other words, they make him cry!) Raw meat gives him goose bumps. Shrimp reek. Ginger is so difficult to scrape. So I have to prepare all the spices, pots and pans. Then, and only then, will my lord and master deign to enter the kitchen. And then too, not without all the fuss about ambience and mood. Out comes the bottle of chilled beer, a glass of wine for the relaxing (!) honey (yours truly), mood music and a starched apron.
Then his Highness will inspect the pan of the day by holding it high against the kitchen light. God forbid if there is any oily smear or scrap of hardened food from previous cooking. I will get a taunting cluck as he rushes to the sink to give a thorough scrub with soap and hot water. This from the guy who throws his dirty laundry on the bathroom floor, two inches from the laundry basket!
Now the connoisseur is set for his grand production. In goes a gallon of olive oil (plain vegetable oil is so not gourmet). He slowly saut�s the meat and vegetable that I chopped, tosses in the pasta or rice that I boiled, adds his spices with a flourish (a la Emeril Laggasse), garnishes with the cilantro that I carefully washed and chopped. He then leaves it to cook for eons on low fire so that we don't eat till 11 pm.
Then I set the table. Serve the accompaniments - salads, raita, naan that I have made. Clean up all the mess he habitually makes with turmeric stains and oil splatters and answer his smug question, "Honey, how was the Rogan Josh?" Or, "Did you like the Shrimp jalfrezi?" Twenty times!
"Yes dear, it was delicious," I retort monotonously. "Thank you. You are the best", I offer even as I am thinking about the next day when I get the kitchen back ? where I will go on to cook conventional lentils and rotis in thirty minutes flat ? from start to finish.
Oh, but dare I say I am not the lucky one? After all, the best part about guys who cook is that they are constantly giving you "helpful suggestions" on how to make your dish better. Yes, ladies, I am truly lucky. It's just that once in a while I wish my luck to my girlfriends. Let me be the poor housewife married to a guy who knows naught about cooking and who will gladly eat whatever is plunked in front of him!


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Immigration minister Damien Green: E-Borders system is secure
System will check data on every non-European area passenger arriving in UK
The government has said its e-Borders programme will be able to pre-check every non-European Economic Area (EEA) airline visitor to the UK from next month.
Immigration minister Damian Green made the pledge as he explained in a speech how the new Border Force will operate following its separation from the UK Border Agency. The Force was separated from the Agency after it was claimed staff were not sticking to agreed immigration controls in place.
E-borders would be "genuinely secure, fluid and complete", he said. Border security "is about making sure that we are in the right place, at the right time, with the right information to stop the source of the threat before it even reaches our shores", he said, according to a BBC report.
The delayed e-borders programme was introduced by the previous Labour government. The UK Border Agency experienced a number of IT headaches related to the original £1.2 billion e-borders programme. Last summer, the Agency was said to be locked into a binding arbitration process with supplier Raytheon after the company was sacked from the programme in July 2010. Up until being removed from the e-borders contract Raytheon had been paid £188 million out of its £742 million contract.
Green, speaking yesterday at the Royal United Services Institute, said there will be clear rules on the correct level of checks for every type of passenger and all types of goods that cross the UK border.
In addition, he said, the e-Borders system will be rolled out further to cover 100 percent of non-EEA flights by next month. The programme collects and analyses information on passengers and crew intending to travel to or from the UK before they travel.
Green said: "There can be no compromises on border security. In a dangerous world, our border is one of our main protections."
In 2011, 2.6 million UK visa applications were made and there were around 200 million passenger journeys across UK borders. In addition, 500 million tonnes of freight passed through seaports.
Green said: "E-borders combined with our strict visa regime means that all non-EEA visitors arriving from outside Europe will have been checked once, and many twice, while they are still thousands of miles from our passport controls. That means better protection than ever before and a stronger border."


Following criticism from fellow journalists, public radio show host Diane Rehm has curbed some of her lobbying for right-to-die laws.
A week ago, the NPR ombudsman criticized Diane Rehm for being both a talk show host (her show is distributed by NPR, but NPR does not produce it) and a champion for the legislation.
Rehm's husband, John, starved himself to death last year after a doctor refused to help end his life. He suffered from Parkinson's.
Journalists, such as NPR's ombudsman, suggested it was unethical of Rehm to appear at fundraisers for groups advocating right-to-die legislation.
"I was saddened but understood their position," Rehm told the Washington Post after meeting with both NPR and WAMU Radio officials.
The situation illustrates the convergence of traditional notions of journalistic "objectivity" and ethics with humanity and personal knowledge. Not attending the fundraising doesn't change a thing about Rehm's devotion to the cause. The settlement merely eliminates a perception of a conflict of interest. It doesn't remove a conflict of interest. And it doesn't address the reality that listeners — especially public radio listeners — are intelligent enough to understand situations where those conflicts exist.
NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen writes today that the "good thing" that comes out of the situation is NPR will update its ethics policy to cover hosts of shows distributed by NPR, but produced by member stations.
"This should be a right for me and should have been a right for my husband," she told the Post.
From the archive: Journos with 'skin in the game' (NewsCut).
Related: Lorenzo Schoonbaert, a 41-year-old Belgian soccer fan in the last stages of terminal illness, had his dying wish fulfilled last weekend. He saw his team win for a last time, then went ahead with physician-assisted suicide.