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Seth's Blog
Scarcity and abundance There are two ways to think about achievement and the idea of getting ahead: Perhaps it’s a race....
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Scarcity and abundance

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There are two ways to think about achievement and the idea of getting ahead: Perhaps it’s a race. Getting ahead means beating the competition. But perhaps it’s simply an effort to move forward. A rising tide lifts all the boats, and if you want your boat to have plenty of water...
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One-in-70-Trillion: An Evolutionary Biologist Explains the Mind-Bending Probability of Our Existence At a 1998 conference on technology and life, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas...
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One-in-70-Trillion: An Evolutionary Biologist Explains the Mind-Bending Probability of Our Existence

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At a 1998 conference on technology and life, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams once proposed the notion of a sentient puddle. Imagine it “waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself...
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Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times The expression “YOLO” may now be just passé enough to require explanation. It stands, as only some...
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Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times

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The expression “YOLO” may now be just passé enough to require explanation. It stands, as only some of us would try to deny remembering, for “You only live once,” a sentiment that reflects an eternal truth. Some bodies of religious belief don’t strictly agree with it, of course,...
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A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926) It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human...
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A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)

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It’s a sad fact that the vast majority of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human carelessness, earthquakes and the grim efficiency of the United States Air Force. The first films of hugely important figures like Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Hiroshi Shimizu...
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Seth's Blog
Compounding luck Human luck doesn’t even out. Regression to the mean explains that in statistics, outlying events...
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Compounding luck

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Human luck doesn’t even out. Regression to the mean explains that in statistics, outlying events tend to be overcome by average ones. But in society, the opposite is often true. A small headstart becomes a bigger one, or a small stumble can turn into something that is hard to...
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The Spinal Tap Sequel Arrives Next Month: Watch the Trailer and a Scene with Elton John & Paul... This Is Spinal Tap came out more than 40 years ago. At the time, says director Rob Reiner in a...
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The Spinal Tap Sequel Arrives Next Month: Watch the Trailer and a Scene with Elton John & Paul McCartney

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This Is Spinal Tap came out more than 40 years ago. At the time, says director Rob Reiner in a recent interview at San Diego Comic-Con, “nobody got it. I mean, they thought I’d made a movie about a real band that wasn’t very good, and why wouldn’t I make a movie about the Beatles...
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Fiona Rimmer Hi, my name is Fiona Rimmer and I'm a printmaker/etcher from Hampshire, UK where I live with my...
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Meet The Maker: Fiona Rimmer

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Hi, my name is Fiona Rimmer and I'm a printmaker/etcher from Hampshire, UK where I live with my husband, 3 sons and a beautiful dog called Skyla (the humans are beautiful too).  I have a degree in Fine Art from Lancaster University and an MA in Illustration from Falmouth...
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The table of contents (and the index) The index is the search bar, the random access to the facts we can look up. The table of contents,...
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The table of contents (and the index)

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The index is the search bar, the random access to the facts we can look up. The table of contents, though, that’s a point of view. It’s a taxonomy of how to understand a complicated idea. It’s the skeleton of the narrative and the pedagogy for learning. We’re at risk of becoming...
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Watch Meshes of the Afternoon, the Experimental Short Voted the 16th Best Film of All Time It seems not to be documented whether the Santa Ana winds were blowing when Maya Deren and Alexander...
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Watch Meshes of the Afternoon, the Experimental Short Voted the 16th Best Film of All Time

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It seems not to be documented whether the Santa Ana winds were blowing when Maya Deren and Alexander Hackenschmied shot Meshes of the Afternoon. But everything about the film itself suggests that they must have been, so vivid does its atmosphere of luxuriantly arid paranoia...
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Handprinted - Blog
Speedball Speedy Carve Block using Process Colours Speedy Carve Blocks are delicious to cut and a joy to print. We have featured them many times in our...
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Speedball Speedy Carve Block using Process Colours

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Speedy Carve Blocks are delicious to cut and a joy to print. We have featured them many times in our blog, but this time we have created a process with a three-layered print. For a layered print like this, it's helpful to start with a drawing. Map out the colours to plan their...
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Emma Willard, the First Female Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach... We all know Marshall McLuhan’s pithy, endlessly quotable line “the medium is the message,” but...
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Emma Willard, the First Female Mapmaker in America, Creates Pioneering Maps of Time to Teach Students about Democracy (Circa 1851)

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We all know Marshall McLuhan’s pithy, endlessly quotable line “the medium is the message,” but rarely do we stop to ask which one comes first. The development of communication technologies may genuinely present us with a chicken or egg scenario. After all, only a culture that...
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When Medieval & Early Modern Europeans Cleansed with Poison: The Strange History of Antimony Cups... The history of medicine is, for the most part, a history of dubious cures. Some were even worse than...
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When Medieval & Early Modern Europeans Cleansed with Poison: The Strange History of Antimony Cups and Pills

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The history of medicine is, for the most part, a history of dubious cures. Some were even worse than dubious: for example, the ingestion of antimony, which we now know to be a highly toxic metal. Though it may not occupy an exalted (or, for students in chemistry class,...
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Seth's Blog
A new tool to help you get unstuck I’ve spent months creating something I’m excited to share: The Mentor Deck. Here’s an invite for...
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A new tool to help you get unstuck

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I’ve spent months creating something I’m excited to share: The Mentor Deck. Here’s an invite for 2,000 people to purchase and test the very first edition. Reading a book changes how you think. But turning those ideas into action? That’s where most of us get stuck. You need more...
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A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Played from Start to Finish Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is such a work of art that to split it up into nine tracks—like...
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A Live Studio Cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Played from Start to Finish

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Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is such a work of art that to split it up into nine tracks—like classic rock radio has done for years—always sounds nonsensical. How can you just end “Breathe” on that final chord and not follow it with the analog drones of “On the Run”? How can...
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A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the...
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A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years, and Now His Family Has Shared the Entire List Online

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Dan Pelzer died earlier this year at the age of 92, leaving behind a handwritten list of all the books he’d read since 1962. His family had it digitized, put it online, and now it’s gone viral, somewhat to the surprise of those of us who’d never heard of him before. But that, it...
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What sort of better? Sneakers are better for running a marathon, but shoes are better for a wedding reception. This is...
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What sort of better?

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Sneakers are better for running a marathon, but shoes are better for a wedding reception. This is the better of utility. Finding something that does the job it sets out to do. And then there is the better of taste. Yellow mustard might be better than Dijon mustard. Not for me,...
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Watch Anémic Cinéma, Marcel Duchamp’s Whirling Avant-Garde Film (1926) Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made some heady art. His whole goal was to “put art back in the service...
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Watch Anémic Cinéma, Marcel Duchamp’s Whirling Avant-Garde Film (1926)

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Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) made some heady art. His whole goal was to “put art back in the service of the mind,” or to create what Jasper Johns once called the “field where language, thought and vision act on one another.” And that’s precisely what Duchamp’s 1926 avant-garde...
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Movies, books and paintings No important movie has ever been a solo project. While we can see a director’s point of view from...
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Movies, books and paintings

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No important movie has ever been a solo project. While we can see a director’s point of view from movie to movie, the collaborative nature of the work is evident. Actors, cinematographers and musicians all change what we see. And because of the huge amount of time and money...
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The ghost in the machine When a system becomes complex and our knowledge peters out, we’re tempted to assert, in the words of...
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The ghost in the machine

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When a system becomes complex and our knowledge peters out, we’re tempted to assert, in the words of Gilbert Ryle, that there’s a ‘ghost in the machine.’ “How does the stoplight work?” “Well, it knows that there’s a break in the traffic so it switches from green to red.”...
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Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches... If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it’s only a matter of time before someone brings...
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Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles

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If any discussion of medieval medicine gets going, it’s only a matter of time before someone brings up leeches. And it turns out that the centrality of those squirming blood-suckers to the treatment of disease in the Middle Ages isn’t much overstated, at least judging by a look...
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Hear the Pieces Mozart Composed When He Was Only 5 Years Old A preternaturally talented, precocious child, barely out of toddlerhood, in powdered wig and...
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Hear the Pieces Mozart Composed When He Was Only 5 Years Old

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A preternaturally talented, precocious child, barely out of toddlerhood, in powdered wig and knee-breeches, capering around the great houses of 18th century Europe between virtuoso performances on the harpsichord. A young boy who can play any piece anyone puts in front of him,...
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Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look... The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were...
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Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look Like Fun

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The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were told that a brain was like an egg and drugs were like a frying pan. The First Lady told America’s school kids simply to “Just Say No.” The message was stupefyingly simple. Drugs,...
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Tetra Pak Drypoint and Collagraph Printing When we first heard the news that Tetra Pak cartons could be used for printmaking, we were excited...
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Tetra Pak Drypoint and Collagraph Printing

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When we first heard the news that Tetra Pak cartons could be used for printmaking, we were excited to try it out. We started to collect all the cartons we had at home and got ready to put them to a new use in the studio. Here’s a little project to get started using Tetra Pak...
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Mostly unreasonable It’s tempting to go to an extreme. Unreasonable design standards, quality or hospitality are an...
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Mostly unreasonable

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It’s tempting to go to an extreme. Unreasonable design standards, quality or hospitality are an effective way to gain share, delight customers and spread the word. To be unreasonable in service of your customers is a practice and a commitment. Along the way, though, reality sets...
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An Introduction to Aleister Crowley, History’s Most Infamous Occultist “Do what thou wilt”: as the central principle of a worldview, it may not sound like much, but at...
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An Introduction to Aleister Crowley, History’s Most Infamous Occultist

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“Do what thou wilt”: as the central principle of a worldview, it may not sound like much, but at least there are always a great many people ready and willing to hear it. So discovered Aleister Crowley, the early twentieth-century Occultist now remembered not just for his...
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Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human... In 1926, Fritz Kahn, a German gynecologist and anatomy textbook author, produced a lithograph called...
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Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Famous 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human Body as a Modern Factory

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In 1926, Fritz Kahn, a German gynecologist and anatomy textbook author, produced a lithograph called Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) that depicted the human body as a factory, a chemical plant of sorts. Kahn’s body came complete with mechanical lungs, a...
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The menu A while ago, I ate in a restaurant that had no menu. The waiter simply walked over to the table and...
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The menu

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A while ago, I ate in a restaurant that had no menu. The waiter simply walked over to the table and said, “what do you want?” As bold as statement as this is, it made many diners uncomfortable and often led to people ordering without much imagination. Around the same time, I...
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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014 Image by Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons When New York City hosted...
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Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014

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Image by Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons When New York City hosted The World’s Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50...
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Tom Lehrer, RIP: Hear All of His Witty, Satirical Songs in One Playlist Tom Lehrer died last weekend, more than four decades after rumors of his death had first gone into...
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Tom Lehrer, RIP: Hear All of His Witty, Satirical Songs in One Playlist

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Tom Lehrer died last weekend, more than four decades after rumors of his death had first gone into circulation. He didn’t bother to contradict them, publicly claiming that he figured they would “cut down on the junk mail.” That quip proved not just that he was still alive, but...
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W.H. Auden’s 1941 Syllabus Asked Students to Read 32 Great Literary Works, Totaling 6,000 Pages Whether willed, involuntary, or a mix of both, the declining literacy of college students is by now...
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W.H. Auden’s 1941 Syllabus Asked Students to Read 32 Great Literary Works, Totaling 6,000 Pages

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Whether willed, involuntary, or a mix of both, the declining literacy of college students is by now so often lamented that reports of it should no longer come as a surprise. And yet, on some level, they still do: English majors in regional Kansas universities find the opening to...
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The order and the medium of feedback Who do you pay attention to? Do you respond or react to the feedback that’s coming in? Do you seek...
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The order and the medium of feedback

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Who do you pay attention to? Do you respond or react to the feedback that’s coming in? Do you seek it out or wait for it to arrive? Does vivid online feedback from anonymous trolls carry more weight than honest but more subtle feedback from actual customers? Pick your feedback,...
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Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live... Image by Dosseman, via Wikimedia Commons In 2012, archaeologists discovered in Southern Turkey a...
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Archaeologists Discover a 2,400-Year-Old Skeleton Mosaic That Urges People to “Be Cheerful and Live Your Life”

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Image by Dosseman, via Wikimedia Commons In 2012, archaeologists discovered in Southern Turkey a well-preserved mosaic featuring a skeleton savoring a loaf of bread and a pitcher of wine, surrounded by the Greek words “Be cheerful and live your life.” Dating back to the 3rd...
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Settling for better Perhaps you’re really good at the job. Hard charging. Focused on every interaction and staying in...
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Settling for better

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Perhaps you’re really good at the job. Hard charging. Focused on every interaction and staying in control. It’s easy to justify the hard work because you refuse to settle. It turns out that your community is here and ready to contribute. When you give others the resources, trust...
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Surprising insights People like that, like this. When we can build connections between demographics and psychographics,...
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Surprising insights

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People like that, like this. When we can build connections between demographics and psychographics, it’s easier to surprise, delight and serve our customers. Mail order catalogs have been doing this for years out of necessity. They know something about a person’s geography,...
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How Disney Fought Fascism with Propaganda Cartoons During World War II & Averted Financial Collapse Today, the Walt Disney Company seems like one of those entities that’s “too big to fail” — but...
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How Disney Fought Fascism with Propaganda Cartoons During World War II & Averted Financial Collapse

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Today, the Walt Disney Company seems like one of those entities that’s “too big to fail” — but during the Second World War, fail it nearly did. Like the big-thinking entertainer-businessman he was, Walt Disney himself had been re-investing the company’s profits into ever more...
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The Nazis’ 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II Like the rock and roll revolution of the 1950s, which shocked staid white audiences with...
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The Nazis’ 10 Control-Freak Rules for Jazz Performers: A Strange List from World War II

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Like the rock and roll revolution of the 1950s, which shocked staid white audiences with translations of black rhythm and blues, the popularity of jazz caused all kinds of racial panic and social anxiety in the early part of the twentieth century. Long before the rise of European...
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How much extra is the gift wrap? One way to turn a product or service into a story is to gift wrap it. Yes, you did my taxes, but did...
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How much extra is the gift wrap?

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One way to turn a product or service into a story is to gift wrap it. Yes, you did my taxes, but did you include a two-page summary and a useful folder to keep it in? Whether you’re providing a service to a casual customer or a product to a regular patron, what you’re really […]
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Plato, Aristotle & Other Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Renaissance Masterpiece, The School of... Among the wonders to behold at the Vatican Museums are the larger-than-life forms of the titans of...
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Plato, Aristotle & Other Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Renaissance Masterpiece, The School of Athens

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Among the wonders to behold at the Vatican Museums are the larger-than-life forms of the titans of Greek philosophy. It’s widely known that at the center of Raphael’s fresco The School of Athens, which dominates one wall of the twelve Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace,...
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Meet The Maker: Polly Marix Evans Hello, I’m Polly, and I’m a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in rural Cumbria. Much of my...
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Meet The Maker: Polly Marix Evans

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Hello, I’m Polly, and I’m a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in rural Cumbria. Much of my work features a character known as Bun-Head, a feisty woman who has come to hold a special place in the hearts of her many followers.  My prints are simplistic, using contrasting...
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Seeing the lottery At least the Powerball tells the truth. In a state run lottery, the deal is very simple: You pay...
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Seeing the lottery

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At least the Powerball tells the truth. In a state run lottery, the deal is very simple: You pay your money, you take your chances. The government randomly chooses a winner and the winner gets a big prize and everyone else gets nothing. But there are lotteries all around us,...
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Watch The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Documentary on the Heavy Metal Pioneer (RIP) “This is supposed to be my farewell tour,” says Ozzy Osbourne in a clip included in the Biography...
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Watch The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Documentary on the Heavy Metal Pioneer (RIP)

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“This is supposed to be my farewell tour,” says Ozzy Osbourne in a clip included in the Biography television documentary above. He then gives the finger and adds, “We’ll see.” The year was 1993, and indeed, there turned out to have been much more to come for the former frontman...
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Salvador Dalí Goes to Hollywood & Creates a Wild Dream Sequence for Alfred Hitchcock Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel reportedly carried rocks in their pockets during the premiere of their...
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Salvador Dalí Goes to Hollywood & Creates a Wild Dream Sequence for Alfred Hitchcock

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Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel reportedly carried rocks in their pockets during the premiere of their first film Un Chien Andalou, anticipating a violent reaction from the audience. It was a fair concern. The movie might be almost 90 years old but it still has the power to provoke...
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A New 20-Minute Supercut of David Letterman Slamming CBS: “You Can’t Spell CBS Without BS” The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—CBS insists it was purely a “financial...
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A New 20-Minute Supercut of David Letterman Slamming CBS: “You Can’t Spell CBS Without BS”

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The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—CBS insists it was purely a “financial decision,” the result of declining ad revenue in late night television. Others see it as a different kind of “financial decision,” a decision by Paramount (the parent company of CBS) to...
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Casual cruelty Is it okay to dress your cat in a ridiculous costume? What about giving a poodle a haircut that...
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Casual cruelty

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Is it okay to dress your cat in a ridiculous costume? What about giving a poodle a haircut that subjects him to ridicule? The cat and the dog probably don’t know or care, but we think less of their person if it happens. At Disney, the costumed characters need security guards....
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The Iconic Glass House Built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe—and the Lawsuit That Cast a Shadow Over It It’s tempting, in telling the story of the Edith Farnsworth House, to break out clichés like “People...
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The Iconic Glass House Built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe—and the Lawsuit That Cast a Shadow Over It

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It’s tempting, in telling the story of the Edith Farnsworth House, to break out clichés like “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” For the residence in question is made predominantly of glass, or rather glass and steel, and its first owner turned out to have...
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The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion Some YouTuber posted online a pretty nice clip of an espresso shot being pulled from a La Marzocco...
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The Life & Death of an Espresso Shot in Super Slow Motion

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Some YouTuber posted online a pretty nice clip of an espresso shot being pulled from a La Marzocco FB80 espresso machine at 120 frames per second. They recommend muting the sound, then putting on your own music. I gave it a quick shot with the famous soundtrack for Kubrick’s...
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Resilience is a practice It’s easy to imagine that we should do our work and then, when it doesn’t work as we hope, improvise...
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Resilience is a practice

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It’s easy to imagine that we should do our work and then, when it doesn’t work as we hope, improvise to fix it. But perhaps our work is to show up ready and willing to deal with a future we didn’t expect. I keep writing about it because we all need to keep thinking about […]
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The Real Science Experiments That Inspired Frankenstein With the Halloween season mere months away, the time has come to start thinking about what...
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The Real Science Experiments That Inspired Frankenstein

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With the Halloween season mere months away, the time has come to start thinking about what frightening reads to line up for ourselves this year. Some of us may reach for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a story we all think we know. But a look into its...
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The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics... Frank Zappa called them the “Mothers of Prevention,” the group of wives married to members of...
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The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics Collided with the Religious Right

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Frank Zappa called them the “Mothers of Prevention,” the group of wives married to members of Congress who decided in the mid-80s to go to war against rock lyrics and whip up some good ol’ conservative hysteria. We’ve talked about this time before on this site, especially as...
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Finding the difficult work It’s tempting to seek out the easy gigs and the straightforward projects. But of course, if they’re...
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Finding the difficult work

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It’s tempting to seek out the easy gigs and the straightforward projects. But of course, if they’re the easy ones, there’s probably quite a few people eager to do them. So your ability to add unique value goes down. The alternative is to find and focus on the projects that take...
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