- Almanac: Chesterton on Christmas
“Now Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.” G.K. Chesterton, The Thing Continue reading Almanac: Chesterton on Christmas at About Last Night.... Read more
Eating with Italian futurists: oranges should be balanced on one’s head, meat eating should be synchronized with trumpet blasts, pasta should be Avoided
Waiting with hope for Church renewal.
“We begin to die the day we don’t act on things that matter.”
– Dr Martin Luther King Jnr
The Psychology Behind Great Gift-Giving
Givers might favor the beautiful and dramatic because they think about gifts in the abstract: “What’s a good gift?” Recipients, in contrast, imagine themselves using it, and so focus more on utility. – The New York Times
When Usually Solitary Octopuses Get Together, Odd Things Happen Atlas Obscura
‘Hug-buddy’ is Flemish word of the year Politico
Kangaroos can learn to communicate with humans, researchers say Reuters
Monarch butterflies denied federal protection as California population plunges Merced Sun-Star
A palm oil alternative could help save rainforestsBBC ()
All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms Wired
The Art of Losing—Three Poems for the COVID-19 Pandemic JAMA
On the allure of people singing together Dorchester Reporter