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"We don't do commercials because our target audience isn't sitting around watching TV."
It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into motion the Rube Goldberg machine of events that turned atoms born in the first stars into you — into this temporary clump of borrowed stardust that, for the brief interlude between not having existed and no longer existing, gets to have ideas and ice cream and orgasms, gets to yearn and to suffer and to love.
How We Become Ourselves: Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Human Development
An exhibition of dozens of iconic photographic prints from the 20th century, along with the annotations on the reverse sides including “crop lines, grease pencil markings, date stamps of when the photograph was run, captions used by the newspaper…”
My mother used to say that life is like a roll of toilet paper- it goes faster the closer we get to the end. Anyone who has achieved some age can understand. It took forever for me to grow up, but it took much less time for my children to grow up, and then grandchildren grow up in the blink of an eye. Young people can't wait for Christmas, while older people can't believe it's Christmas again already. Why do we experience the passing of time so differently at different ages?
I've read that it's because of percentages. A five-year-old has spent 20% of his life in the last year, while a 50-year-old has only spent 2% of their life in the last year. But that's not the whole story. Dr. Betsy Holmberg explains that the child and adolescent brain works differently from the more mature brain, so their experience of time passing is different. She not only explains how that works, but also gives us some tips to make our lives move a little slower at Psychology Today. -via Real Clear Science
Fairy tales, myths and legends, epic adventures, and Christmas romances are all based on standard formulas, and get dressed up with details and movie stars for blockbuster films. The most original and fresh plots are based on true stories, because we all know truth is stranger than fiction. Not only does the plot differ, but if that story involves crime, we also get dramatic tension and a subversion of expectations. Okay, so to make a great movie, you start with an exciting true crime, something that no one wants to be involved with, but will find thrilling to watch on a screen. You condense the timeline, add interesting details, and cast talented actors in the roles. If the crime is too recent or you might get sued, just change the names and the setting. If it's not recent at all, you can go wild with fictionalizing it. In the right hands, it's a sure-fire formula for a great movie.
Den of Geek introduces us to twenty movies that were inspired by true crimes and became either critically acclaimed or big hits. They go back as far as 1931, but most are readily available to watch. They also vary in how fictionalized they are, and they adhere to no plot formula. They don't lend themselves to prequels or sequels. And you'll find a description of each movie, along with the true crime they were based on, plus a trailer for each.
Lore Segal, R.I.P.
Nazis and beetles
Paint vs. poster
Travel writing
Soviet teeth
Fall books preview
Brontë sisters
Zadie Smith’s bookshelves
Rene Girard
Arendt, poet
Dinner with Nozick
Sotheby's drama
High mountains
Fall books
Writing renaissance
Oldest cookbook
Deculturation
HBS drama
The Raphael of Cats
Thom Gunn
Remembering Y2K
James C. Scott
Invention of childhood
Elephant names
Tina Brown on Martin Amis
Valley of the books
Chinese keyboard
Literary treasures
Patriotic exercise
Long audiobooks
Professor and pornographer
Divas
Notorious pest
Drama at Penguin Random House
Cromwell's prophecy
Alice Munro, R.I.P.