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• Sipping from Fashion's Glass in Montreal
  on Aug 24, 2016 in fashion less is more Montreal fashion Montreal tourism
    A newly arrived visitor to Montreal, a.k.a. “the Paris of North America,” instantly encounters a fashion-driven integument that celebrates external appearances. Shop windows and signage, thriving cosmetics retailers, and stylish homo sapie...
• Montreal Fashion Moments
  on Aug 24, 2016 in fashion less is more Montreal fashion Montreal tourism
    A newly arrived visitor to Montreal, a.k.a. “the Paris of North America,” instantly encounters a fashion-driven integument that celebrates external appearances. Shop windows and signage, thriving cosmetics retailers, and stylish homo sapie...
• Montreal Fashion Fripperies
  on Aug 24, 2016 in fashion less is more Montreal fashion Montreal tourism
    A newly arrived visitor to Montreal, a.k.a. “the Paris of North America,” instantly encounters a fashion-driven integument that venerates external appearances. Shop windows and signage, thriving cosmetics retailers, and stylish homo sapien...
• Montreal Fashion Oddities
  on Aug 24, 2016 in fashion less is more Montreal fashion Montreal tourism
   A newly arrived visitor to Montreal, a.k.a. “the Paris of North America,” instantly encounters a fashion-driven integument that venerates external appearances. Shop windows and signage, thriving cosmetics retailers, and stylish homo sapiens...
• Prado Nudes Captivate at The Clark
  on Aug 5, 2016 in Nudes from the Prado exhibit Reservadas Sala Reservada Salas The Clark Museum
  My recent visit to a spectacular exhibit at The Clark Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts revealed one of Spain’s curious 17th-19th century sociocultural “institutions”—the Sala Reservada.  Sequestered chambers in palaces and bastions...
• Rx for the Anchoring Bias in Music
  on Jul 27, 2016 in anchoring anchoring bias anchoring bias in music anchoring effect Natalie Merchant Paradise Is There Tigerlily
  By superior craft and musicianship, Paradise Is There, Natalie Merchant’s recent remake of her best-selling album, Tigerlily, has freed many of her listeners from their hard cognitive wiring to the earlier recording. That is no mean feat considerin...
• Sanctimonious Workplace Posters from the 60s
  on Jul 5, 2016 in Despair.com workplace motivation workplace motivational posters workplace posters of the 1960s
  "Motivational products don't work. But our Demotivator products don't work even better," insist the pundits at Despair.com. The company is best known for its "demotivational" posters, like the signature one depicted above.  Two weeks ago in...
• Fooled by Randomness and Ambiguity in Amherst, Massachusetts
  on Jun 22, 2016 in ambiguity Amherst Massachusetts Amherst police work critical thinking gratuitous police work in Amherst hasty generalizations uncritical thinking
  Compared with their brethren in more criminally poignant zip codes, the Amherst, Massachusetts police still have their challenges. Like periodically solving dubious  problems for “entitled,” politically correct residents. If the four local n...
• Fooled by Ambiguity and the Unexpected in Amherst, Massachusetts
  on Jun 22, 2016 in ambiguity Amherst Massachusetts Amherst police work critical thinking gratuitous police work in Amherst hasty generalizations uncritical thinking
  Compared with their brethren in more criminally poignant zip codes, the Amherst, Massachusetts police still have their challenges. Like periodically solving dubious problems for high-maintenance residents. Judging by the four local newspaper* clippin...
• Marketing at the Clark: Nudes from the Prado in Williamstown, Massachusetts, No Less!
  on Jun 14, 2016 in Goya La Maja Desnuda Nudes from the Prado exhibit sensuality in painting The Clark The Clark Art Institute
  Who can blame The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts—arguably one of America’s elite small museums—for titillation via a mailer that trumpets: Nudes from the Prado. A must-see exhibition, exclusively at the Clark! And on the re...

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