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Like some surreal eruption from the unconscious (the kind you would see in a Buñuel film), a gleaming grand piano has appeared in the offic...

It's not uncommon that after failed experiments there is a bit of wailing and gnashing of teeth as the rationale which underpinned them...

I love music. I don't know why really (but isn't that true of most things - or people - we love?) My parents are not musical - only...

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I've long been an enthusiast for the work of Ernst Gombrich. When I first encountered "Art and Illusion" I was beginning my ...

There's been a fascinating debate between Stephen Downes, whose 'connectivist' theory has underpinned his pioneering of the MOO...