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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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In the mid-1970s, Rich Allen began taking pictures of children playing truant and messing about in the empty lot a New York City’s 76 E. 3rd St. The Hell’s Angels lived directly across the street. They wanted the lot for themselves. (You can read more about that here.) One of the...
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Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIa: Pops and Chains
This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s...
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This is the first half of the second part of our three part look at Paradox Interactive’s Hellenistic-era grand strategy game Imperator: Rome. I had hoped to do this part in a single post, but my book writing schedule intervened and so it became necessary to split it up. Last...
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Confessions from a Classics Lover
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
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The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome?
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Beyond Watergate: A Look at President Nixon’s Legacy
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26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s
The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
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Prioritizing Concrete Proposals
I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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Automata & AI: A Historical & Cultural Comparison
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The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature
The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis
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Notes on using AI to analyze three World War II-era films about drugs and PTSD
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?)
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
a year ago
My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact.
Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
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Women's Day -August (1953) Part 2
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Another article that appeared in this August 1953 issue is about the current fictional space flight programs on TV: Rocket-Bye Baby.
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A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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5 Deadliest Sword Designs
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Ovid's Dating Advice
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Arthur Conan Doyle vs. Harry Houdini: A Friendship Ruined by Ghosts
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Edward Hopper & Josephine Nivison: The Troubled Artistic Union
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Why Do the British Love Tea so Much?
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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5 Things You Can Learn From Cynic Philosophers
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Strange And Terrible: Hunter S. Thompson And The Hell’s Angels (1965)
In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain...
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In my own country I am in a far-off land I am strong but have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling. – Ballade du concours de Blois by François Villon … Continue reading "Strange And...
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Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
a year ago
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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6 Crazy Facts about Cape Town
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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The Inuit and the Canadian Arctic: A Brief History
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Aristotle vs. Walter Benjamin on the Philosophy of Translation
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
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The Early Anarchism of William Godwin
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Subtle Manipulation: The Power of Nudging in Psychology
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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The History of Humans in the Antarctic
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
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We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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The Father of Phenomenology: Who Was Edmund Husserl?
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The Philosophy of the Oxford Group: Vegetarianism & Animal Rights
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What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter?
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The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Why The USSR Built the Wall
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The Legend of El Dorado: Myth vs. History
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Pandora’s Box: A Greek Myth about Curiosity (and More)
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Who Painted it? Dutch Women Artists and Misattribution
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Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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But the Western Security Complex thinks it's all about Us.
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