Brazil's blind spot

Article Abstract:

Brazil has produced internationally-recognized musicians, novelists, photographers and architects, but lacks painters with a strong international reputation. This is particularly surprising in the light of the fact that highly acclaimed painters are relatively common in Spanish-speaking America. Competent Brazilian Modernist painters such as Lasar Segall do not really seem to have moved beyond presenting European styles in new ways, and there is little interest in their work outside Brazil. Modernism came to Brazil at a time of wide-reaching social change, and this seems to have inhibited Brazilian painters.

Brazil, Art, Artists

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The blind librarians

Article Abstract:

Breakthroughs are being made in computer vision and object recognition, which would allow computers to recognize and differentiate between different images. The most immediate application of this advance would probably be in database searching.

Pattern recognition (Computers), Computer vision, Innovations, Machine vision, Cognitive science, Object recognition (Computers)

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Blind ambition

Article Abstract:

A plan to tackle trachoma in Morocco, where it is a problem in the south, is examined in detail.

Health aspects, Morocco, Trachoma

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