A Beautiful, High-Resolution Map of the Internet (2021)
The beginnings of the Internet were uncharted territory, especially before the days of graphic browsers. You had a number, you dialed up to a location. Certain...
Category: Culture
Hear the Amati “King” Cello, the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (c. 1560)
The Stradivari family has received all of the popular acclaim for perfecting the violin. But we should know the name Amati — in whose Cremona workshop...
A Side Splitting Medieval TikTok Account: Get a Laugh at Medieval Yoga Poses & Much More
@greedypeasant🧘♀️ Medieval Yoga 🧘 #medievaltiktok #yoga #yogalover #peacewithin #fyp #foryou #foryoupage♬ original sound – Tyler Gunther TikTok, the short-form video-sharing platform, is an arena where the young dominate — last...
The Illuminated Manuscripts of Medieval Europe: A Free Online Course from the University of Colorado
Dr. Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila and Ana B. Sanchez-Prieto–two academics working out of the University of Colorado and Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain)–have teamed up to present Deciphering...
Ethan Hawke Explains How to Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative
The most creative people, you’ll notice, throw themselves into what they do with absurd, even reckless abandon. They commit, no matter their doubts about their talents,...
Scientists Create an Interactive Map of the 13 Emotions Evoked by Music: Joy, Sadness, Desire, Annoyance, and More
Most of our playlists today are filled with music about emotions: usually love, of course, but also excitement, defiance, anger, devastation, and a host of others...
A Data Visualization of Every Italian City & Town Founded in the BC Era
Ancient people did not think about history the way most of us do. It made no difference to contemporary readers of the popular Roman historian, Livy...
Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #95 Considers Joss Whedon’s The Nevers
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_95_5-28-21.mp3 Mark, Erica, and Brian discuss the HBO Max show out Victorian-era super-powered feminine outcasts, helmed and now abandoned by the creator of Buffy the Vampire...
Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue
In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it’s the wind that waves. Their teacher strikes them both...
Sci-Fi “Portal” Connects Citizens of Lublin & Vilnius, Allowing Passersby Separated by 376 Miles to Interact in Real Time
Can we ever transcend our tendency to divide up the world into us and them? The history of Europe, which political theorist Kenneth Minogue once called “plausibly summed...
