by | Apr 26, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Guardian Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help by Donald Robertson A bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Photograph: DEA/G DAagli Orti/De Agostini via Getty Images The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him,...
by | Apr 24, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from DNYUZ The Nude Selfie Is Now High Art It has become an act of resilience in isolation, a way to seduce without touch. Frida Kahlo’s “The Broken Column,” a self portrait. / Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights...
by | Apr 22, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from TIME Magazine Don’t Feel Bad If Your Kids Are Gaming More Than Ever. In Fact, Why Not Join Them? BY SEAN GREGORY I’ve been thinking an awful lot about the 1989 Detroit Pistons over the past few days. Rick Mahorn, the starting power forward, can’t make...
by | Apr 19, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Millions On Pandemic and Literature by Ed Simon Less than a century after the Black Death descended into Europe and killed 75 million people—as much as 60 percent of the population (90% in some places) dead in the five years after 1347—an anonymous Alsatian...
by | Apr 16, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from artnet Archaeologists Just Discovered That Neanderthals Made String 50,000 Years Ago, Suggesting They Were Waaay Smarter Than We Thought The researchers say that Neanderthals “really weren’t very different from us.” Modern cordage made of grass...
