On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Beth Benoit wrote:
> Check out www.corbis.com/
>
OK, I did. Now that I'm using PowerPoint, I'm always looking
for good pictures to import, especially of historical figures. The
site is great!
I tried out some random choices using their search engine. "Baby"
and "twins" produced some cute ones; "Dionne quintuplets" retrieved
five (a coincidence? I think not!); "rat", one in a metabolism cage,
"Canada" had some nice photos, and even "Trudeau" for our former Prime
Minister worked. "Neuron" produced a photo of Julius Axelrod against a
background of what appears to be a photomicrograph of neurons.
For historical figures, it turned up Mozart, Descartes, Pascal,
Feynman, and Piaget, no problem. Freud and Jung are there, but not
Emma Eckstein. Even a picture of George Wald (can you tell what I'm
lecturing on these days?). "Aristotle" produced one useable portrait
of the philosopher, together with one of Telly Savalas (how'd he get
in there?) and a few of Aristotle Onassis enjoying the good life.
"Skinner" produced mule skinners and one pic of pigeons in a
presumably Skinner box. John Watson was unknown (I guess they've got
to work on their behaviourists). Phineas Gage is unknown but there
were 312 pictures of that famous psychologist, Elvis. But no Michael
Sylvester.
Some of the responses to a query were puzzling (cf Telly Savalas,
above, and "William James" produced "Mozart composing the Requiem")
but there are lots of hits. This is fun. Thanks, Beth.
-Stephen
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