“Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the queue for almost anything.” Concierge Nation: Welcome to White-Glove America . “Exclusivity — even if it comes at the cost of social cohesion — is the business model.”
The English artist’s paintings work hard to make social hierarchy feel beautiful, even natural.
Maybe it’s because I’m a little bit allergic to hype , but I just now got around to reading this review of the Macbook Neo by Sam Henri Gold that absolutely everyone has been recommending and, well, this might be the best product review ever written? The consensus is
Painted during summer trips to the Channel coast, Seurat intended his seascapes to “cleanse one’s eyes of the days spent in the studio.
The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the scientific community in the US . “This is not efficiency. This is not streamlining. This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder.”
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When I was a child, little delighted me more than the magical green garlands draping from the pine trees, which I made into wreaths and mustaches to roam the mountains of Bulgaria as a miniature Orlando. I had no idea that Usnea longissima is just one of more than 20,000 known
How do we develop our sense of space? Henri Bergson questioned the very fabric of our reality in his revolutionary work - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
A Berlin journal’s false leftism, Egyptian blue paint at Pompeii, looting at the Sudan National Museum, and how can artists get gallery representation?
Colleagues you care about are coming over for dinner. What should you make? Some people don’t care if it’s delicious, as long as it’s interesting. Some don’t need it to be interesting, but it needs to start on time. Others define delicious differently than you do. One couple
When many of us first learned of the RMS Titanic, it was presented first as one of history’s greatest ironies: the “unsinkable” ocean liner that went down on its maiden voyage. Of course, there’s a great deal more to the story, as anyone who becomes obsessed with the ill-fated
If you’ve fallen out of the habit of reading books, you’re certainly not alone. Consider how often posts circulate on social media (itself a big part of the problem) about studies showing a rapid increase in the number of people who don’t even get one book read per year. How
They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark humus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of