Stella F. Simon

Stella F. Simon and Miklos Bandy’s 1927–28 16mm film, Hands: The Life and Love of a Gentle Sex, is a short, experimental, feminist film whose aesthetic is drawn from American and European modernist photography movements and early avant-garde film traditions. The film’s underlying melodramatic narrative formula is complicated by the use of hands as both protagonists and as the central aspect of its modernist mise-en-scène. However, as with so many of the women who collaborated with men in the silent era, official credit did not go to Simon but to Bandy. The titles on all of the extant film prints credit Bandy as the film’s director, but attribute the idea to Simon. When it published four frame enlargements from the film, the British art film journal Close-Up equally attributed the film to him “after an idea by Stella F. Simon.” However, a review published the following month praised “Miss Simon’s” experiment with abstract, constructivist “scenery” (Blakeston 137). This August 1929 article, therefore, becomes the first source in new research that supports Simon as the film’s principle director (Richter 1971, 44; Barr 21; Horak 1995, 43-44; Wild 93-105). Little is known about Bandy, who was the author of one of the first articles in France to discuss Swedish abstract experimentalist Viking Eggeling’s short film Symphonie Diagonale (1924) in Germaine Dulac’s journal, Schémas. Modernist composer Marc Blitzstein wrote and performed the film’s original four-hand mechanical piano score and made a composite recording of it in March 1936 at the behest of RCA and the Museum of Modern Art (Lehrman 35)

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology\u27s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Sacred Texts

Author: Finkelstein, Israel. Title: Bible unearthed. Publisher: New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002

Herbert Simon (1916-2001). The scientist of the artificial

With the disappearance of Herbert A. Simon, we have lost one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century. Highly influential in a number of scientific fields—some of which he actually helped create, such as artificial intelligence or information-processing psychology—Simon was a true polymath. His research started in management science and political science, later encompassed operations research, statistics and economics, and finally included computer science, artificial intelligence, psychology, education, philosophy of science, biology, and the sciences of design. His often controversial ideas earned him wide scientific recognition and essentially all the top awards of the fields in which he researched, including the Turing award from the Association of Computing Machinery, with Allen Newell, in 1975, the Nobel prize in economics, in 1978, and the Gold Medal Award for Psychological Science from the American Psychological Foundation, in 1988

The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War [book review]

This article is a review of the book "The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War" edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis

L'epistolari de Jaume Vicens Vives : notes de lectura

L'autor realitza una valoració de la figura de Jaume Vicens Vives a partir de les més de quatre-centes cartes de l'historiador gironí publicades al volum Epistolari de Jaume Vicens Vives II, a cura de J. Clara, P. Cornellà, F. Marina i A. Simon (Girona, 1998). Altrament, l'autor reporta vivències personals i informació sobre diversos materials manuscrits de Vicens que donen compte de la seva ingent tasca historiogràfica.El autor valora la figura de Jaume Vicens Vives a partir de las más de cuatrocientas cartas del historiador de Girona publicadas en el volumen Epistolari de Jaume Vicens Vives II por J. Clara, P. Cornellà, F. Marina i A. Simon (Girona, 1998). Por otra parte, el autor describe vivencias personales e información sobre diversos materiales manuscritos de Vicens, que constatan su ingente labor historiográfica.Throug more than four hundred letters published in the book entitled Epistolari de Jaume Vicens Vives II by J, Clara, P. Cornellà, F. Marina and A. Simon (Girona, 1998). The author praises the outstanding figure of the Catalan historian Jaume Vicens Vives

Chern-simon type photon mass from fermion electric dipole moments at finite temperature in 3+1 dimensions

We study the low energy effective field theory of fermions with electric and magnetic dipole moments at finite temperature. We find that at one loop there is an interaction term of the Chern-Simon form ${\cal L_I}=m_\mu\>A_\nu {\tilde F}^{\mu\nu}$. The four vector $m_\mu \simeq d_i \mu_i m_i^2 ~{\partial_\mu}\>(ln T)$ is interpreted as a Chern- Simon type mass of photons, which is determined by the electric (magnetic) dipole moments $d_i$ ($\mu_i$) of the fermions in the vacuum polarisation loop diagram. The physical consequence of such a photon mass is that, photons of opposite circular polarisations, propagating through a hot medium, have different group velocities. We estimate that the time lag between the arrival times of the left and right circularly polarised light signals from pulsars. If the light propagates through a hot plasma (where the temperature in some regions is $T \sim 100 MeV$) then the time lag between the two circularly polarised signals of frequency $\omega$ will be $\Delta t(\omega) \simeq 10^{-6} /\omega$. It may be possible to observe this effect in pulsar signals which propagate through nebula at high temperatures.Comment: plain TeX, 9 page

Perspective: A minority within a minority.

What do Annie Glenn, Julia Roberts, Carly Simon, and Marilyn Monroe have in common? They are women who stutter. Research involving women who stutter has been limited, was conducted almost exclusively by one researcher, and took place during the 1970s and 1980s. As a result, women who stutter feel that their voices are unheard and their needs are unaddressed

Gallagher, Simon F. - Will of Simon F. Gallagher, deceased

Will of Simon F. Gallagher, deceased, covering the disposition of his property including five enslaved persons: Bob, Alfred, Charles, Queen and Ann.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/lantern-hnf/1141/thumbnail.jp

Comparative performance of twenty-three types of flat plate solar energy collectors

Report compares efficiencies of 23 solar collectors for four different purposes: operating a Rankine-cycle engine, heating or absorption air conditioning, heating hot water, and heating a swimming pool