… ever since 1789, there has been one magic word which contains within itself all imaginable futures, and is never so full of hope as in desperate situations – that word is revolution. Simone Weil Ever since he took office...
Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it’s gone viral, somewhat to the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXINTf8kXCc Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made some heady art. His whole goal was to “put art back in the service of the mind,” or to create what Jasper Johns once called the “field where language, thought and vision act on one...
If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it’s only a matter of time before someone brings up leeches. And it turns out that the centrality of those squirming blood-suckers to the treatment of disease in the Middle Ages isn’t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-tboYkOFho A preternaturally talented, precocious child, barely out of toddlerhood, in powdered wig and knee-breeches, capering around the great houses of 18th century Europe between virtuoso performances on the harpsichord. A young boy who can play any piece anyone puts...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1fc-h018Uo The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were told that a brain was like an egg and drugs were like a frying pan. The First Lady told America’s school kids simply to...
Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again”. Now, halfway through his third term, macroeconomic indicators paint a fairly rosy picture of the country’s trajectory under his...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFY2ydsj3gE Money likes to go where money already resides. This truism is valid in the cultural sector as well, which has seen a lot of its funding opportunities disappear since 2008. And as funding disappears from the field, so do...
Five years after the COVID-19 swept the world off its feet and many are, understandably, reluctant to discuss it. Yet, the fallout stays with us, academically, economoically, and in so many ways. Source link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QulGsWDQTCM Loneliness is a serious public health issue. The Mental Health Foundation confirms that it makes it harder for people to connect, which leads to fear of social situations, and ultimately makes it more difficult to escape negative thoughts. The...
