Art and Science: 8 Medicine

From 1875 on, paintings of surgical procedures, heroes of medical and surgical advances, and the new clinical look of hospitals.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/02/01/art-...-medicine/

Don Quixote 44: A governor starved and a knight pinched

The governor is starved by his doctor, then warned of an attack and assassins. The knight has a nocturnal visit from an old duenna which becomes uncomfortable for them both.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/31/don-...t-pinched/

https://youtu.be/G2gu9Re8oLQ

Silent Hunters of the Night: paintings of owls 2

Added to portraits to indicate the sagacity of the subject, owls were dear to the heart and brush of Hieronymus Bosch.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/30/sile...of-owls-2/

From gigil to wabi-sabi and tarab, there are many foreign emotion words with no English equivalent. Learning to identify and cultivate these experiences could give you a richer and more successful life.

These words have no direct English equivalent, but they represent very precise emotional experiences that are neglected in our language. And if Tim Lomas at the University of East London has his way, they might soon become much more familiar.

Intrigued, he began to hunt for further examples, scouring the academic literature and asking every foreign acquaintance for their own suggestions. The first results of this project were published in the Journal of Positive Psychology last year.

Many of the terms referred to highly specific positive feelings, which often depend on very particular circumstances:

    Desbundar (Portuguese) – to shed one’s inhibitions in having fun
    Tarab (Arabic) – a musically induced state of ecstasy or enchantment
    Shinrin-yoku (Japanese) – the relaxation gained from bathing in the forest, figuratively or literally
    Gigil (Tagalog) – the irresistible urge to pinch or squeeze someone because they are loved or cherished
    Yuan bei (Chinese) – a sense of complete and perfect accomplishment
    Iktsuarpok (Inuit) – the anticipation one feels when waiting for someone, whereby one keeps going outside to check if they have arrived

But others represented more complex and bittersweet experiences, which could be crucial to our growth and overall flourishing. 

    Natsukashii (Japanese) – a nostalgic longing for the past, with happiness for the fond memory, yet sadness that it is no longer
    Wabi-sabi (Japanese) – a “dark, desolate sublimity” centred on transience and imperfection in beauty
    Saudade (Portuguese) – a melancholic longing or nostalgia for a person, place or thing that is far away either spatially or in time – a vague, dreaming wistfulness for phenomena that may not even exist
    Sehnsucht (German) – “life-longings”, an intense desire for alternative states and realisations of life, even if they are unattainable

In addition to these emotions, Lomas’s lexicography also charted the personal characteristics and behaviours that might determine our long-term well-being and the ways we interact with other people.

    Dadirri (Australian aboriginal) term – a deep, spiritual act of reflective and respectful listening
    Pihentagyú (Hungarian) – literally meaning “with a relaxed brain”, it describes quick-witted people who can come up with sophisticated jokes or solutions
    Desenrascanço (Portuguese) – to artfully disentangle oneself from a troublesome situation
    Sukha (Sanskrit) – genuine lasting happiness independent of circumstances
    Orenda (Huron) – the power of the human will to change the world in the face of powerful forces such as fate

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170...ew-you-had

Untranslatable words – terms without an exact equivalent in our own language – can expand our horizons and transform our lives. They have the potential to help us better understand and articulate our experiences, and can even reveal new phenomena which had previously been veiled to us. For the past three years I've been creating a crowd-sourced lexicography of untranslatable words relating to wellbeing (see www.drtimlomas.com/lexicography), which currently features nearly 1000 words. Collectively these words provide an illuminating and detailed map of wellbeing, one with the potential to open people up to new ways of seeing and being in the world. Dr. Tim Lomas has been a lecturer in positive psychology at the University of East London since 2013.

https://youtu.be/7_mLsucNMVY

The positive lexicography
https://www.drtimlomas.com/lexicography/cm4mi

Papers:
Lexicography
https://www.drtimlomas.com/blank-1

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Silent Hunters of the Night: paintings of owls 1

Symbols of the night, and through association with Athena/Minerva, for wisdom and learning. Owls in paintings to William Blake.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/29/sile...of-owls-1/

Altogether Now: Introduction to uniquely visual narrative

How many verbal stories or movies tell dozens of different stories? Here are paintings that are not only so rich in narrative, but tell all those stories at the same time.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/28/alto...narrative/

Anyone like freeware? Have you ever installed a high end app only to use a few features? If you just need to do a quick task and need a small app to do it in, here's a listing of sites that offer free categorized software for just about anything you want to do.

OldVersion.com
Old-Versions.net
OldApps.com

PortableApps.com
Portable Freeware
The Free Suite

Open Source Mac
Open Source Alternative
The Linux Alternative Project

Linux App Finder
The LiveCD List
OpenWith.org

AfterDawn.com
VideoHelp.com
DistroWatch
Photo-Freeware

Home of the Underdogs (This one is a bit ify, I'll leave it to the mods to decide)

Painting Everyday London: 3 Harold Gilman

A friend of Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner, he painted interiors, portraits, and landscapes, which were originally made in front of the motif.


https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/27/pain...ld-gilman/