The Learned Pig

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  • The Waldorf Project, Chapter II: Colour

    The Waldorf Project, Chapter II: Colour

    “Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” Kahlil Gibran   Colour perception. First noted by Aristotle, later defined by Newton: the spectrum of visible light interacting with sensors on the human eye. That is all. Yet, in his work on colour theory, Goethe…

  • Oikeusjuttu (The Trial)

    Oikeusjuttu (The Trial)

    In Finland, the wolf is both more and less than an animal; it is a symbol. And this November sees a court case in which the very nature of that symbolism will be on trial. Fifteen men have been accused of the 2013 killing of three wolves (three of a population of around 150) in…