You eat a bowl of beans as part of your dinner.   As you dig…

You eat a bowl of beans as part of your dinner.   As you digest the beans, the proteins that are present get broken down to their component amino acids.   As your body destroys the macromolecules that were present in the beans, is the energy present in those molecules destroyed?

Avant-garde artists of the 1960s challenged notions of art w…

Avant-garde artists of the 1960s challenged notions of art with films of banal scenes in which the viewer is forced to pay attention to formal elements such as lines, light, shapes, movement. What else does a viewer question about art when seeing this kind of work?