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Someone Organized All 403 Of Bob Ross’ Paintings On One Happy Little Website
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Multiple layers to this compelling story → ► A Peasant vs The Inquisition: Cheese, Worms and the Birth of Micro-history
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A look inside the still-vital institution and some great photos. I want a copy of the failed, asymmetrically bound New Collegiate dictionary. → A Journey Into the Merriam-Webster Word Factory
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Why Mind Wandering Can Be So Miserable, According to Happiness Experts :: Pairs with Yuval Harari, author of Sapiens, on how meditation made him a better historian.
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Inside the Fountain Pen Hospital → Where Fountain Pens Are Saved and Sold
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In case you missed it, the ► Missing Richard Simmons podcast became a bit of a phenomenon. I got hooked despite myself. It’s also been controversial, being labelled an experiment in privacy invasion and morally suspect. I agree most with the premise that it was questionable, but not cruel.
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Survival of the Friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break
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An “exclusive to BobDylan.com” → Bob Dylan: Q&A with Bill Flanagan
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Today in 1484, William Caxton publishes the first English printed version of Aesop’s Fables. You can read Caxton’s version of the Fables (and then some) on Aesopica or browse a reprint in the Internet Archive.
Rijksstudio Public Award 2017
Masterpieces never sleep by Lesha Limonov:
Delft Blue Eyes (Nails) by Francine LeClercq & Ali Soltani:
Two of ten finalists for the Rijksstudio Public Award 2017, an award given to the best of those who “download images from Rijksstudio and use them to create their own artwork.” Open for public voting until April 20.
Space Sex is Serious Business
“We’ve done almost no research into this area, but human reproduction in space is going to be key to us living on Mars.” → ► Space Sex is Serious Business.
from Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Carlo Rovelli)
A university student attending lectures on general relativity in the morning and others on quantum mechanics in the afternoon might be forgiven for concluding that his professors are fools, or have neglected to communicate with each other for at least a century. In the morning the world is curved space where everything is continuous; in the afternoon it is a flat space where quanta of energy leap.
The paradox is that both theories work remarkably well. Nature is behaving with us like that elderly rabbi to whom two men went in order to settle a dispute. Having listened to the first, the rabbi says: “You are in the right.” The second insists on being heard, the rabbi listens to him and says: “You’re also right.” Having overheard from the next room the rabbi’s wife then calls out, “But they can’t both be in the right!” The rabbi reflects and nods before concluding: “And you’re right too.”
—Carlo Rovelli
—from Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre)
seraglio
seraglio /se-RAHL-yoh/. noun. An enclosure used for confinement, most often for a harem or polygamous unit. For Muslim nobles, the rooms or apartments reserved for wives and concubines. Or the harem itself. Sometimes, more generally, a Muslim noble house or palace as a whole. Sometimes, more generally, a brothel. From Italian serraglio(an enclosure or animal cage), from Latin sera (door bar), related to Turkish seray(palace).
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Links: March 19, 2017
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Fascinating examples in the article and the book just jumped near the top of my reading list. → Danielle Steel Loves the Weather and Elmore Leonard Hates Exclamation Points: Literature by the Numbers Thanks, Reader B.!
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‘Purple Rain’ — As Retold In A Language Without A Word For Purple
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Vote for your favorite of the 10 finalists for the 2017 “net based prize for net based art.” Some intriguing projects.
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Oxford Dictionaries add ‘clicktivism’ and ‘haterade’ as new words for angry times
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It’s interesting to see how supposedly bumbling comedian Tommy Cooper meticulously organized his jokes and planned his physical staging. If you’re wondering who Tommy Cooper is, you probably know some of his jokes.
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A comic by Boulet → How to Beat Writer’s Block in Just 40 Easy Steps
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This month, the USPS announces a new series of WPA Posters Stamps. :: Pair with the Library of Congress WPA Posters Collection
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Today in 1863, the Confederate states’ most powerful Steamship Georgiana is bombarded and finally scuttled while attempting to force its way through a federal blockade to Charleston, South Carolina. Today in 1965, teenage diver and future pioneer in underwater archaeology E. Lee Spence, found the wreckage (see galleries of artifacts from the ship). The Georgiana was owned by George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury during the last year of the Civil War and, Spence has convincingly claimed, inspiration for Margaret Mitchell’s famous character Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind.
Avery Molek’s “Tom Sawyer”
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