Perhaps the worst advice to carry out from childhood, beyond old wives’ tales about giving yourself hairy palms, is “don’t talk to strangers.” Indeed, “stranger danger” is such an embodied part of our culture that, whenever some unfamiliar face holds our glance and asks how we are, we take them for a madman, a thief, or a deviant. It’s a way of thinking that has made a lonely crowd of the world, each of us fearful and suspicious of the Other.
Pope Francis' Gospel Reflections Jesus calls Matthew, showing sinners that he does not look at their past, at their social status, but rather at their future. There's a beautiful saying: “There's no saint without a past nor a sinner without a future”.
Dean caught saying Berkeley Law uses ‘unstated affirmative action:’ ‘I’m going to deny I said this’FOX. I wonder what Bourdieu would make of this. Klassik Greig
The Super Connector Who Built Sam Bankman-Fried’s Celebrity World NYT
How Did One Man Steal $2 Billion in Art? GQ
Africa’s understudied human gut microbiomes could be a rich source of therapeutics
Sex, Analysis, and 40 Communal Apartments on the Upper West Side New York Magazine
The art of keeping Elvis alive in small-town Florida Tampa Bay Times
Watch Aggressive Orcas Target Another Sailing Ship Off the Coast of Europe Field & Stream. Fascinating to watch, but I don’t think it will scale.
