Anything in sufficient numbers becomes a sign. The clouds gathering their hexagonal rooms around a common area where the principle of evaporation is tacked above the sink
The Yale Review@yalereview.bsky.social · yesterday"Anything in sufficient numbers becomes a sign." —Karen Solie, "To the Meteorologist"
Many thanks to David Stock & Joshua Howgego for this fabulous video interview with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social for @newscientist.com on his book, On Time! Recorded at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, home of the Prime Meridian, it's the perfect place to explore the mysteries of time: buff.ly/jkrIaN4
Jim Al-Khalili: Everything you need to know about time | New Scientist
From manifest time to the quantum arrow of time and time travel, Jim Al-Khalili explores one of the biggest unsolved problems in modern physics
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“I know what the fourth dimension is: It’s music! The first dimension is a note, the second dimension is an interval, the third is a chord and the fourth dimension is MUSIC.”
An Obscure Desire: — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
Reflections on Basarab Nicolescu’s “ From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture and Spirituality”
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@jimalkhalili.bsky.social joins Jason Goodyer to discuss his new book On Time for BBC Science Focus Magazine's #InstantGenius series. Listen here: buff.ly/vntJKgJ
Why understanding how time works is the biggest mystery in science
Instant Genius · Episode
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I did indeed go through the list of signatories and can confirm that there is nobody I respect here, apart from Nina Gordon, about whom my opinion may have just changed.
Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦@snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4d agoNon-paywall list of genocide-deniers you can proceed to help render obsolete.
Librarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning. A look at the librarians who've settled lawsuits for defending the right to read and where that stands in contrast to lawsuits about the right to read more broadly. bookriot.com/librarians-s...
Librarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning: Book Censorship News, September 11, 2026
Librarians who've been fired for not banning books and sued are winning settlements in their cases.
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 6d agoThe great ships in Bruegel's Icarus, like the wax & feather wings, exemplify extreme technology and mankind's hubris. Bruegel was rather skeptical about modernity. Today is his day.
Leo Tolstoy, #botd For Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy was "the greatest of all novelists," and her argument was simple: "[W]hat else can we call the author of War and Peace?" From the archives – @jackewilson.bsky.social takes a look at Tolstoy's original plans for the novel. #books #literature
621 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
For Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy was "the greatest of all novelists," and her argument was simple: "[W]hat else can we call the author of War and Peace?" In this epi…
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Not that anyone has 3:53 to spare or anything but this is amazing. youtu.be/I6Njg1LFxFk?...
Schubert - "Ständchen" D957
YouTube video by HARMONICO101
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In a revised study of the celebrated sixteenth-century painter, writes Kathleen C Stone, Michael W. Cole traces how family support, artistic training, and scholarly revision shaped Sofonisba Anguissola's legacy. @princetonupress.bsky.social artsfuse.org/333758/book-...
From ‘baking outsider’ to Bake Off judge, the FT columnist explores pastry’s enduring appeal: ft.trib.al/UfjGaux
In this episode of The History of Literature podcast, Jacke talks to Theodore Martin about his book, American Literature's War on Crime, which explores the connection between crime novels and the making of mass imprisonment in America. buff.ly/L15uEcD
https://www.historyofliterature.com/827-american-literatures-war-on-crime-with-theodore-martin-web-dubois-sits-with-shakespeare/
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Turns out, this was the lesser story about James Orr today.
Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2w agoCambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...
“It is easier to experience something terrible than to imagine it and wait for it endlessly.” (Jorge Luis Borges, Alef) Thierry Lechanteur artwork
‘The Corrections’ Is 25 Years Old. Its First Paragraph Still Feels New. https://www.booksns.com/225453/ ‘The Corrections’ Is 25 Years Old. Its First Paragraph Still Feels New. by Tifoso89
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‘The Corrections’ Is 25 Years Old. Its First Paragraph Still Feels New.
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"They seem to represent an idealized vision of filmmaking as an expressive act, free, if not from financial concerns, then at least from industrial obligations." Bilge Ebiri on why we love directors who stop making films.
Bilge Ebiri on Our Fascination with Filmmakers Who Make Few Films
The film critic on Terrence Malick, Lance Hammer, Elaine May, and other directors who went long stretches without making films.
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Heartbreaking to hear that Gloria Steinem has died & very painful for it to happen when the world feels so poisoned by misogyny. A brilliant, generous activist who devoted her life to making the world a freer place 💔
@kyliu99.bsky.social's thought-provoking piece on copying in humans and machines, The Art of Copying, has been published in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. The essay is a part of our volume First Encounters with AI, forthcoming with @uofmpress.bsky.social. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ken-...
The Art of Copying | Los Angeles Review of Books
The long history of scribes being replaced by machines, and what cannot be replaced by LLM imitation in current writing.
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From the archive: "Bergson — Philosophy as Attention", by Timofei Gerber #Philosophy #Philsky
Bergson — Philosophy as Attention
From the archive: "Bergson — Philosophy as Attention", by Timofei Gerber
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“The sort of theory that flourished in the last decades of the twentieth century eventually descended into scholasticism, where real questions of suffering and social transformation were obscured. But we should not mistake the fate of one intellectual fashion for the general fate of theory.”
The Summers of Theory
How it rose, fell, and may rise again.
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Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.
