"At some point in Cedric Lodge’s almost 30-year career in the Harvard Medical School morgue, working mostly alone and far from the eyes of his supervisors, he allegedly decided to get a piece of this trade."
Growing up, I had a pretty conventional childhood. In the northern Wisconsin of the 70s and 80s, that meant living in the country, dogs and cats, making ramps for our bikes in the driveway, Oscar Meyer bologna sandwiches for lunch, and a nuclear family of four that split into
End Legal Slavery in the United States (i.e. forced prison labor). “It’s a different model from the chattel slavery over which the Civil War was fought, but by all norms of international law, it is a violation of fundamental human rights.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Republican governor left hundreds of cultural organizations high and dry after he scrapped $32M in funding for the sector.
Scholar and psychotherapist Kikan Massara elucidates and contextualizes the 12-step recovery process through paintings, prints, and other works of art and literature.
“Art history is essentially a bunch of stories. I thought our stories should be in there and they weren’t,” the photographer told Hyperallergic in an interview.
We Can and Should Address Racial Disparities . “Most of the programs that would be most beneficial to racial equality are actually universal policies.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Alexandra Neuman’s latest performance, The Collective Womb , reframes abortion as a natural exchange of energy between the body and the world.
The Supreme Court decided against an LA woman who said her husband’s tattoos were incorrectly interpreted as gang symbols.
"Law-enforcement sources and grieving families allege that the social media giant Snapchat has helped fuel a teen-overdose epidemic across the country. Now, their parents are fighting back."
Photographer Ryan Weideman worked as a NYC taxi driver for 35 years (1981-2016) and photographed his passengers while on the job . Huck did a profile of Weideman and his work several years ago. “I drove a Checker cab but I usually got the wrecks because I only drove three
"I wondered if the two dentists were right—whether my body was becoming ugly. And if it was, why it would do that to me. This was something I had not thought about before."
AC Lamberty writes about how his tastes (and experience of masculinity) changed as he transitioned . “Before I started hormone replacement therapy — before I was ‘a guy’ — I never really cared about nuts (yes, you can laugh).” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts is accepting applications for September 2024.
Super Moxio Bros is a version of World 1-1 of the original Super Mario Bros done using typewriter characters. I didn’t check for sure, but there’s a good chance I got this link from waxy.org . Tags: remix · Super Mario Bros · video games 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
With roots dating back to early 18th-century Paris, La Maison du Pastel has the distinction of being the world’s oldest manufacturer of pastels. Producing more than 1,800 unique colors from high-quality pigments still mixed and rolled by hand, the material has been used by
The record industry is suing a pair of AI music-making companies over copyright issues. Listen to some of the songs that the record cos were able to generate from prompts …they are very close to the originals. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars”. A creative agency working for Oreos came up with the clever idea of selling tubes of Oreo frosting so that people could repair their broken Oreos in the same way. Oreo’s ‘Kintsugi’
US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declares gun violence a public health crisis . “America should be a place where all of us can go to school, go to work, go to the supermarket, go to our house of worship” without putting our lives at risk.
“Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%.” These bans were never about saving lives; they’re about controlling women.
With increasing awareness of the effects of children spending so much time on their screens, which has the potential to negatively influence cognitive and social-emotional growth, parents often think carefully about how their kids play. ESNAF ( previously ) is a toy company
Husserl’s well-tended archive has given him a rich afterlife, while Nietzsche’s was distorted by his axe-grinding sister - by Peter Salmon Read at Aeon
How a spouse’s confession freed a young couple from gender expectations in the Deep South.
If you’ve studied French (or, indeed, been French) in the past couple of decades, you may well have played the card game Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux. Known in English as The Werewolves of Millers Hollow, it casts its players as hunters, thieves, seers, and other types of
It’s a pretty simple calculation. How much value per dollar does a freelancer produce for you? What’s the psychic reward for the time you put into your favorite hobby? That machine that takes time and money to set up and run… what does it create when it’s operating? Not
One of the busiest, most in-demand artists of the 19th century, Gustave Doré made his name illustrating works by such authors as Rabelais, Balzac, Milton, and Dante. In the 1860s, he created one of the most memorable and popular illustrated editions of Cervantes’ Don Quixote,
For their first book, Melbourne-based photographer Marlo W met, photographed and interviewed 18 trans and gender diverse elders living in Melbourne.