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23rd August 2004

A Primer of Visual Cliche

“As you will see, there are images that challenge our complacency that a concept is a cliche. Use a cliche to expunge a cliche.”

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23rd August 2004

Lauren’s Alice in Wonderland Page

“I am a huge fan of Lewis Carroll’s classics, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Click the Alice Illustrators buttons to go to pages dedicated to the many illustrators of the Alice books. The Alice Links button will take you to a long list of links to great Alice-related stuff on the web, and some awards I’ve gotten.”

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23rd August 2004

Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe

“1+1=2. Mathematics doesn’t get any more basic than this, but even 1+1 would stump the brightest minds among the Piraha tribe of the Amazon. A study appearing today in the journal Science reports that the hunter-gatherers seem to be the only group of humans known to have no concept of numbering and counting.”

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