I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.
… A joy forever: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats | John Keats | The Guardian.
A list of the 25 greatest art heists of all time. If you're familiar at all with the history of stolen art, the #1 and #2 heists aren't so hard to guess.
“It’s a bottle shop, but we were lucky enough to get a space that has a courtyard out the back and a restaurant space up above it, and a massive kitchen,” Mike Bennie (Rootstock), who co-owns P&V with Lou Dowling (ex-Mary’s), tells Broadsheet. “We thought we would utilise the courtyard space to create a full-service experience, which means you can taste wine, you can drink wine, and you can pull bottles off the shelf and sit down and open [them] for a small corkage fee. And we have a small list of by-the-glass options which will be opened every day and change regularly. It’s basically an enhanced version of P&V.”
What Is a Trophic Cascade? Definition and Ecological Impact
Discover how an extinction can impact the rest of an ecosystem.
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The Evolution from Snurfing to Snowboarding. Sherman Poppen invented snurfing in the 60s and Jake Burton's addition of bindings a decade later changed the game. The old snurfing/snowboarding footage in this is incredible.
In our time of plague, a cast of literary oracles has emerged: Camus, Defoe, Saramago. But in feeling trapped, Kafka is paramount Father Kafka
Articles of Note
How to write, according to Martin Amis: No fancy syntax; use line breaks liberally; be original; see things with a poet’s eye... more »
New Books
A Romantic-era notion holds that science kills wonder. The work of Alan Lightman only multiplies it... more »
Essays & Opinions
In literary studies, melodrama reigns as paranoia is pitted against repair, violence against nurture, suspicion against trust ... more »
Leonardo Depicted America: Misread as the Moon. Advances in Historical Studies, 8, 139-147. “Leonardo da Vinci must have been aware that Columbus discovered new territories in the West. Until now, no material evidence had been found to substantiate this assumption. Here we show that Leonardo not only read Amerigo Vespucci’s letter (derived from a painted star constellation), but that he even drew a map including the New World, a drawing which was previously interpreted as a depiction of the Moon. Finally, Leonardo engraved his notion of this new continent on an ostrich egg globe (now known as the Da Vinci Globe) and made a copper cast of this. Both the cosmographic and cartographic clues demonstrate that Leonardo da Vinci knew about the fourth continent, to be named “America” in 1507, less than a decade after Columbus embarked upon its shores. This expansion of Leonardo’s cartographic legacy comes at a time of increased interest for such multi-disciplinary insights, as the world commemorates in 2019 the 500th anniversary of his death…”
