Category: History
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Prisoners in the museum
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The classical Greek conception of the afterlife was not a particularly attractive one. In Homer’s universe, the vast…
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A Likely Story
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We all have our own sacred cows, ideas that are so deeply embedded in our psyches that we…
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Paddling Point Nemo
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Any time you have more than one person in a room, you’re going to have differences. Despite these…
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Really and truly.
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Voltaire pointed out in 1733 that “The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof…
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Elaine, let’s get the hell out of here.
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Elaine de Kooning once recalled a party where she and another painter, Joan Mitchell, were asked, “What do…
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Calculating the value of pie.
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At absolute zero, -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, all activity in the sub-atomic world of electrons and protons ceases, and…
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Bonfire of the Vanities
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The market value of the works that Richter is known to have obliterated is estimated at somewhere around…
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Seeing it all in black and white.
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In black and white, structure becomes clearer; light and shadow take on more meaning. Detail can become clinical,…
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A mess of gooey, gluey, goodness.
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We turn to memes and tweets, chewy little mouthfuls of snark, savoring the ones that appeal to us,…
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