This week a US Congresswoman had a hard time describing the sun and the moon in the wake of the solar eclipse. She said the moon was made up mostly of gases. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVyHdZQPCxU

But I will be kind, as it's not her fault she can graduate from Yale University and hold such beliefs. What has happened to the Ivy League?

The moon does not generate any heat and its light is entirely the reflection of photons from the sun. The sun is the biggest fusion reactor in our solar system. Fusion is a process that occurs when two atoms are slammed together forming a heavier atom. So in the case of the sun two Hydrogen atoms form one Helium atom and the by-product is energy or radiant heat.

Scientists have been searching for the holy grail of "cold fusion". which would be a means of producing unlimited energy on earth without a radioactive by-product. Most believe it isn't possible.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-current-sc...

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Phrenology and Physiognomy were two pseudo-sciences that caught on in a big way from the 17th-19th centuries. I won't go into details here but provide some links for you below.

Physiognomy was the older form that regarded human beauty or ugliness to have implications for behaviour. In other words people of certain appearance were profiled as "criminal types", etc. Phrenology studied the bumps on skulls and from that supposedly deduced certain psychological attributes. Once again the effect of this pseudo-science was to profile people.

Now in this piece of conceptual art I am posing a question: What if modern surveillance techniques like facial recognition technology and psychological profiling are merely more sophisticated forms of putting people in boxes?

Don't we still tend to judge people by their physical attributes and thus "profile" them as societal threats or not?

Phrenology
www.verywellmind.com/what-is-phrenology-2795251
Physiognomy
blogs.getty.edu/iris/physiognomy-the-beautiful-pseudoscie...


* All photographs taken with the Nikon D850.

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We can't accept the scientific basis of Phrenology anymore (see my previous photo), and yet all the attributes of mind attributed to it by the Phrenologists in the 19th century nonetheless do apply. Coupled with Don McLean's song about life lessons, "Dreidel", it does us well to reflect on where our lives are spinning.

Produced with photographs from the Nikon D850 and edited on VideoPad Video Editor.

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A portrait from three photographs.

All photographs taken with the Nikon D850.

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Framing the picture.

All photographs used in this animation were taken with the Nikon D850.

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