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Understanding Dreams →

“I will discuss the dream as the language of the unconscious, its functions, and how they can be translated to provide personal understanding.”

More about Dr. Irving Slesar can be found at http://www.drslesar.com/

The Bodega Food Pyramid: Food choices and the nutritional habits of the underserved →

‘The audience will be given a tour through an NYC corner store colloquially known as the bodega.”

See more from Dallas Penn at http://internetscelebrities.com

Doesn’t it Seem Likely that the Fashion World’s Kaiser, Karl Lagerfeld is, in fact, a robot? →

“According to various magazines the designer Karl Lagerfeld hates food, children, fat and thin people, love, being looked at and being touched. He also claims that he is “a computer” and has recently been sporting a strangely robotic glove. It’s no wonder that if you get fashionistas together someone inevitably ends up speculating that he is, you know, actually a robotic hoax created by scientists. I’d like to discuss this, incorporating factoids from Descartes, Blade Runner and Vogue magazine.”

Jen Wright, a freelance writer/model for art classes (and, strangely, Gossip Girl), submits this one.

Jane Eyre and the Internet →

“Literature’s plain yet passionate Victorian heroin takes to the Internet.  And what happens is ...interesting.”

This one comes form Azita Houshiar.  See some of her artwork at: http://flickr.com/photos/azita99

The game of life. →

Aaron Dignan sends us this one.

“A surge of entertainment options (web, mobile, gaming) have trained a generation to approach nearly every aspect of life as a game. What’s that like?”

He’s at http://www.undercurrent.com

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of Hell’s Kitchen →

“Sharing insights on art, life and the environment from my sojourns at Joshua Tree and latest trip to Burning Man.”

Bernard Leibov submits this one.  He’s at http://www.jdk.com

A brief history of Techno →

“A quick history of techno music, its evolutions and mutations, and where it finds itself now. With each time period, I’ll play a representative sound snippet and talk about it.”

Sounds good.  For more on Colin Nagy go to http://devilinthedetails.blogspot.com