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Sunday, November 27, 2022

Lear: Fathers and daughters: what’s the truth behind this unexplored family bond?


Fathers and daughters: what’s the truth behind this unexplored family bond? 
Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal as daughter and father in Aftersun. Research suggests fathers of girls have more empathy for women. But as King Lear and new movie Aftersun show, there are plenty of challenges along the way


The violent phobias that bind Hindutva and Zionism 972


Over 1 billion people believe in witchcraft — especially in places with weak institutions ZME Science




Beyond Blame Boston Review 


How loneliness is killing men BBC Science Focus do


Does Thanksgiving Glorify The Historical Slaughter Of The Detroit Lions? The Onion. From 2018, still germane.

 

Read Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Proclamation that Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday Time. “While Thanksgiving is usually traced back to a 1621 meal between pilgrims and Native Americans, its origins as a national holiday are much more recent. On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving. He saw the occasion as a peaceful interlude amid the Civil War.” “Traced back” is in the passive voice. How did this happen? Some Reconcilation Movementbullshit? A holiday about the defeat of the Confederacy and the death of slavery is a holiday I can get behind. 

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Firming Up Hierarchy Economics from the Top Down. Interesting!

 

The globalisation elephant has left the room FT

 

Nestlé launches vegan foie gras Switzerland Times


Decolonization should extend to collaborations, authorship and co-creation of knowledge Nature


Creaking  floorboards

Bit late for all this stuff. Architect Breaks Down 5 Haunted Houses From Scary Films / related, a new era of haunted house horror fiction / still scary, This House Does Not Exist, a sort of AI-powered Dezeen. AI is the real grey goo; what will be overwhelmed first is not physical space but cultural space / other things. Head inside the Great Pyramid, a very Minecraft-like experience / see also the work of Eric Pham, who was shortlisted in theDigital Category of the 2022 Architecture Drawing prize / What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames? A question asked and answered by the Leiden Medievalists’ Blog / maybe some porcine treats in the second half of the top PC games, 50 to 1 / a collection of exciting space facts.