Gladiators on wheels
For India’s travelling stunt drivers, who risk their lives for a living, freedom lies on the other side of fear - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Playing in flatland
Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that? - by Elay Shech Read on Aeon
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: Uncommonly Lovely Invented Words for What We Feel but Cannot Name
"Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined."
Terrible
Most of us are terrible at some things. Lack of skill, focus, practice, care or just temperament means that we don’t do the task as well as we might. This might be anything from promptness to conflict to high-stakes negotiation. It could include filling in forms, taking notes
The World’s Oldest Cave Art, Discovered in Indonesia, Is at Least 67,800 Years Old
Image by Ahdi Agus Oktaviana Over the centuries, a variety of places have laid credible claim to being the world’s art center: Constantinople, Florence, Paris, New York. But on the scale of, say, ten millennia, the hot spots become rather less recognizable. Up until about
If You Think This Instrument Is Hard to Play, Try Building One
"The oboe has 500 parts. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music."
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons At least when I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the Third Reich came to power in the early 1930s. Paramilitary gangs terrorizing the opposition, the incompetence and opportunism of German conservatives, the
How to Bear Your Fear and What It Means to Love: A Tender Meditation in Ink, Watercolor, and Wonder
"Nothing beats kindness... It sits quietly beyond all things."