Ciekawostka: Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing

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‘Our ears and our eyes’. News from Iraq in the Western media is highly dependent upon Iraqi journalists and coworkers, especially fixers. This is partly due to the degradation of the security situation since the 2003 invasion, and partly due to language: few Western journalists speak Arabic at a professional level of competence. Interviews with Western journalists and fixers in Iraq reveal the high level of dependence involved. They also reveal some commonalities of understanding of the relationships between journalists and fixers and some significant differences. The dependence upon fixers is seen in the light of changes in foreign news gathering in Western media, especially the use of ‘pa…

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We Hear With our Brain as the same as our Ears?

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Coronavirus: why we should keep our eyes and ears open as well as our hands clean

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“We must open our ears and eyes” : a philosophical lesson from the polymath Iannis Xenakis. Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) was not only a composer, architect and mathematician. Reading his scores and his writings, Pierre Albert Castanet shows that it is possible to detect germs from the field of philosophy. Thus, sensitive to the art of sound rituals as well as to the virtues of art-science, Xenakis was the messenger of an ethical as well as aesthetic knowledge, carnal as well as spiritual. In this context, between "metamusic" and "polytopia", he went so far as to imagine works for sight and hearing. Keywords. Contemporary music, Metamusic, Polytopia, Philosophy, Culture, Works for the ears and…

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Listening with ‘our ears and our eyes’: Ken Wyatt’s big promises on Indigenous affairs

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