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This Won’t Change: The Joy Of Northern Soul In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s...
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In 1993, the Face magazine asked Elaine Constantine to photograph a Northern Soul night at London’s 100 Club. Recently moved to London from Manchester, Constantine knew the scene well, having danced at all-nighters a decade earlier. At first, things seemed different. The crowd...
Classical Wisdom
What to do with Columbus? Should We Learn “Outdated” History?
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Trees are Sanctuaries: Wandering – Notes and Sketches by Hermann Hesse, 1920 “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and...
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“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers” – Herman Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches     Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962) speaks of the search for truth and that sense of escaping into the natural world in this 1920 collection of his pros,...
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
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If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
Patterns in Humanity
The Dark Ages A quantitative assessment of Europe's decline, slumber and awakening
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African History...
A general history of African explorers of the Old world, and a 19th century Bornu traveller of... This article provides a brief outline of over sixty African explorers who traveled across the ‘Old...
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Ancient World’s Greatest War
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Global Inequality...
Russia’s apocalyptic messianism Questions raised by Nikolai Berdyaev
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Save The Robots: Life At New York’s Best Illegal Nightclub In The 1980s Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz...
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Save the Robots was an underground after hours club in New York City’s Lower East Side. Deb Diz Fearon was living in the building at 25 Avenue B, Manhattan before the ‘Robots’ moved into the basement. “We were the tenants that got kicked out so Save The Robots could move in,” she...
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia Greek or Roman?
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Tribes of Detroit 1968 : New American People On The Cusp Of Change Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a...
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Enrico Natali’s Detroit 1968 was first published in 1972 under the title New American People, a photography series of everyday people at work and at home in urban America, having been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as New American Life. In his introduction to...
Overcoming Bias
Capitalism, Govt Causes Culture Woes? Many have noticed a key time coincidence.
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Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control. Fear the worst, hope for the best.
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine" A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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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...
A Collection of...
Continues the Hiatus, 2024 Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
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Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
Classical Wisdom
The Ancient Ozempic Was Theriac a Miracle Drug?
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s “Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
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“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project     Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
Overcoming Bias
Betrayed By Culture Like most humans ever, I love my culture.
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Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Free Will Vs Determinism
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African History...
The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Heavy Metal: West Midlands Industry In the Late 1970s “The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American...
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“The noise was deafening. The heat was intense. I’d never seen anything like it” – American photographer Janine Wiedel on her first visit to the industrial West Midlands     The Vulcan’s Forge photobook shows us faces of late 1970s industry in England’s West Midlands. Based on...
Overcoming Bias
Culture Drift Predicts Decadence Babies are naturally pretty selfish, lazy, and present-oriented.
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Classical Wisdom
Centaurs and Snake-Kings A Halloween event for the Mythologically inclined...
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Twenty Drawings by Kahlil Gibran, 1919 “Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet   In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and...
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“Speak to us of Beauty” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet   In 1919, Lebanese-American artist, poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) published the collection Twenty Drawings, the first and only time a selection of his paintings had appeared in print....
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora Saint or Sinner?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
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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...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism Heraclitus against Parmenides
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Trying to Understand...
Things Don't Always Get Better. And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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Global Inequality...
Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963) This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it. Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for September 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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The World Turned Upside Down : Bizarro Illustrations From An 18th Century Chapbook The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon...
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The World Turned Upside Down or The Folly of Man Exemplified in Twelve Comical Relations upon Uncommon Subjects is Illustrated with Twelve Curious Cuts Truly Adapted to Each Story. The witty woodcuts show various role reversals. A cow becomes a butcher and the butcher his meat. A...
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won? The Silence of the Elephants
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880 Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
The Scholar's Stage
Dionysus Against the Daoists IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS a contrast is sometimes made between the Dionysian and the...
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IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS a contrast is sometimes made between the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Made famous by Nietzsche, this schema was first used to describe the thought and art of Ancient Greece. On the Apollonian end we have all that is rational, intentional,...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
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African History...
Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn. In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of...
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In the closing decades of the 20th century, archaeologists working to uncover the foundations of urbanism and complex societies in West Africa discovered a vast cluster of stone ruins in southern Mauritania.
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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...
The Scholar's Stage
Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a...
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IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a great city is defined by the sort of ambitions it kindles—or perhaps more accurately, the sort of ambitious it gathers. As Graham puts it:
Classical Wisdom
Dionysus The God of Wine!
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s “My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler   Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
Trying to Understand...
No End Of A Lesson. If we can only learn it.
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Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
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Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized? Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
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African History...
A complete history of Zeila (Zayla): ca. 800-1885 CE. Journal of African cities: chapter 14
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Black Woodstock: The Harlem Cultural Festival, NYC – 1969 Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a...
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Away from the “peace and love” at Woodstock in 1969, New York City’s Harlem was the venue for a series of shows that became known as Black Woodstock. Held at 3pm on Sundays in Mount Morris Park between 29 June and 24 August, 1969, as many as 300,000 people attended the festival...
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
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El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pressa Exhibition in Cologne, 1928 At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned...
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At his peak, El Lissitzky (23 November 1890 – 30 December 1941) was arguably the most renowned artist of the Soviet avant-garde, more so than his friend Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko. A trained architect, El Lissitzsky was the artist the USSR’s...