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,...
Category: Culture
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...
How Egyptian Papyrus Is Made: Watch Artisans Keep a 5,000-Year-Old Art Alive
In 2013, French Egyptologist Pierre Tallet discovered in an excavation site near the Red Sea “entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively...
An Illustrated History of Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn
Last year, photographer Anton Corbijn released a new book, MOOD/MODE, showcasing work outside the boundaries of the rock photography world in which he’d made his name....
Discover the Ghost Towns of Japan–Where Scarecrows Replace People, and a Man Lives in an Abandoned Elementary School Gym
In recent years, the major cities of Japan have felt as big and bustling as ever. But more than a little of that urban energy has come...
A Duck Gets a Prosthetic Leg & Waddles Along
Waddles the Duck was born with a mangled left leg. So what does his owner–Ben Weinman, the guitarist of Suicidal Tendencies–do? Gets him a 3D printed...
