I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
The Elmore Leonard on writing.
The New Yorker on Benjamin Franklin.
The Guardian on just what, exactly, is a character.
The LA Times on revisiting books read in your youth.
The Australian on the inimitable 19th-century novelists.The LA Times reviews William T. Vollmann's new book.
I Was a Teenage Carverian
Designing Berlin Alexanderplatz (I'm rather fascinated with DVD packaging)
Cunninlynguists - KKKY
TV so good it changes the world
Michael Pollan's manifesto on eating well
Literary Web site Redroom a new chapter for authors, book lovers
The New Yorker on Benjamin Franklin.
The Guardian on just what, exactly, is a character.
The LA Times on revisiting books read in your youth.
The Australian on the inimitable 19th-century novelists.The LA Times reviews William T. Vollmann's new book.
I Was a Teenage Carverian
Designing Berlin Alexanderplatz (I'm rather fascinated with DVD packaging)
Cunninlynguists - KKKY
TV so good it changes the world
Michael Pollan's manifesto on eating well
Literary Web site Redroom a new chapter for authors, book lovers
Animated Knots is a collection of animated tutorials on how to tie almost 200 different knots. The knots are broken down by activity (fishing, surgical, climbing, decorative) and by type (splicing, bends, quick release). You might want to start with the basic knots or the terminology page. (via dense discovery)
The lost art of reading holy texts. We too often seek only superficial confirmation of our interpretive biases. A more deliberate approach is needed Holy Texts
Kannada-writing playwright (among much else) Girish Karnad has passed away; see, for example Sugata Srinivasaraju's BBC report, Girish Karnad: Colossus of Indian theatre dies at 81 or the Scroll.in report, Girish Karnad (1938-2019): Tributes roll in for revered writer, filmmaker and public intellectual.
Oxford University Press has published quite a few of his plays in English translation; see, for example, their publicity page for the Collected Plays, volume 1, or get your copy atAmazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
(I actually have a copy of an earlier volume of Three Plays, which I probably should get to .....)
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi has been located and it's on a yacht, the perfect place to store the world's most valuable artwork!
First You Make the Maps is a survey of mapping technology by Elizabeth Della Zazzera showing how, starting at the end of the Middle Ages, better maps facilitated the European discovery of the Americas, the explosion of global trade, the enslavement of Africans, and the colonization by Europeans of much of the world.
While geographically accurate maps had existed before, the Age of Exploration saw the emergence of a sustained tradition of topographic surveying. Maps were being made specifically to guide travelers. Technology progressed quickly through the centuries, helping explorers and traders find their way to new imperial outposts — at least sometimes. On other occasions, hiccups in cartographic reasoning led their users even farther astray.
MICROBIOME NEWS: Athletes’ Microbiomes Differ from Nonathletes: Researchers are beginning to uncover a link between activity level and the microbial makeup of one’s gut. “Within two months I was a new person. I had no more fatigue. I could ride my bike hard three days in a row, no problem.”
