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Updated 25 Oct, 07:30
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Teaching Students to See What They Miss
A classroom exercise in slow looking uses art to sharpen observation skills and encourage more attentive listening. The post Teaching Students to See What They Miss appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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Traction!
Tribologists study friction: what happens when things rub together. It’s indispensable, from the wheel to the paths of stars - by Jennifer R Vail Read on Aeon
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Can you ever really think what someone else is thinking?
To see how communication truly works, we should set aside the notion that different people can share the same thoughts - by Víctor Verdejo Read on Psyche
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Watch Rome Rise, Fall, and Rise Again in a Three-Minute 3D Timelapse
Scholars disagree on when, exactly, Rome fell. But if you watch the new video from City 3D Timelapse above, you’ll understand the lack of debate on the question of whether it fell. Around the turn of the sixth century AD, buildings start…
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The Art of the Thousand Bloom Chrysanthemum
How do horticulturists coax more than 1,000 flowers from a single plant? The answer lies in a centuries-old Japanese tradition. The post The Art of the Thousand Bloom Chrysanthemum appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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Ghosts, Witches, and Other Halloween Stories
A spine-tingling roundup of historical mysteries, supernatural folklore, and the strange things that have frightened us for centuries. The post Ghosts, Witches, and Other Halloween Stories appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865)
A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.
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Bhutan: the last place
What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999? - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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How to live a life of awe
You don’t need to climb Kilimanjaro or see the Northern Lights to experience the benefits of awe. It’s everywhere if you look - Video by the University of California and the Greater Good Science Center Watch on Psyche
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Other people
Disconnection is at the heart of today’s crises. So my husband and I chose a radical and revealing remedy: living communally - by Elizabeth Oldfield Read on Aeon
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Why romantic relationships matter more to men than to women
For too long, men were told to be self-sufficient. The research shows they’re more likely to thrive in a loving couple - by Iris Wahring Read on Psyche
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Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & More
Sir Christopher Lee and Edgar Allan Poe went way back. Or at least they went as far back as 1969, the year of The Oblong Box, a loose and lurid film adaptation of the eponymous story starring Lee and the also Poe-associated Vincent Price…
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What Ancient Latin Sounded Like, And How We Know It
Latin is a language As dead as dead can be; It killed the Romans long ago, And now it’s killing me. That famed ditty isn’t likely to resonate with many modern school children, but interest in ancient Rome remains fairly robust. We’ve come…
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The Forgotten Stories Behind Presidential Campaign Buttons
The race for the White House has always inspired unusual publicity stunts. A vast collection shows just how strange they could get. The post The Forgotten Stories Behind Presidential Campaign Buttons appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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When it started to burn
Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Dear Al Pacino
I wrote my mother’s mad letters to celebrities. It was the only time we shared the same plane of reality - by Joe Mullich Read on Psyche
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In 1897, London’s Lampposts Dispensed Hot Coffee, Tea, and “Fluid Beef”
Any reader of Victorian literature will wonder how much a ha’penny was actually worth in those days. For a little more than a year at the very end of that period, it could buy you a cup of coffee, cocoa, milk, tea, or “fluid beef” — which…
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Sears Sold 75,000 DIY Mail Order Homes Between 1908 and 1939, and Transformed American Life
Two of the books that most shaped American culture both happened to bear the nickname “The Big Book.” While the second of these, the A.A. Manual, published in 1939, changed the country with 12-Step recovery groups, the first of these, the…
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Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)
Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.
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Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and the Spirit of the Humanities
How one ghost story competition continues to haunt the humanities—just in time for Halloween. The post <em>Frankenstein</em>, <em>The Vampyre</em>, and the Spirit of the Humanities appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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How intuitions work
Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away - by Marc A Moffett Read on Aeon
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Are you getting enough sun?
The new book ‘In Defense of Sunlight’ argues that our concerns about the sun’s risks lead us to overlook its benefits - by Hannah Seo Read on Psyche
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How to overcome task paralysis
If you have ADHD or you’re stressed, tired and stuck, goal management training can help you get started and keep going - by Joe Wilner Read on Psyche
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Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)
Cast your mind, if you will, back to the year 2020. It now feels like a different time, what with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the heated sociopolitical battles being waged online, and indeed in the (socially distanced) streets…
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Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great
Smack in the middle of Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon sits a song many listeners may hear as an extended bridge between the two true centerpieces, “Time” and “Money.” But I’ve always thought of “The Great Gig in the Sky” as the…
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Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On
Early electric laundry appliances promised to make housework easier. But convincing American households to buy them was another matter. The post Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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A vocabulary for the future: nature
For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Portraits of another life: Nemo Gould
Driven by childhood curiosity, a sculptor turns discarded objects into kinetic artworks that are the antidote to AI slop - Video by Portraits of Another Life Watch on Psyche
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Horrible, unmanly, indispensable
Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon - by Catherine Fletcher Read on Aeon
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What life in Denmark shows about the power of emotional safety
A deep sense of ease – what the Danes call ‘tryg’ – is a collective responsibility that allows individuals to flourish - by Ruth Aharoni Nielsen Read on Psyche
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The Dark Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Famous Photograph, Taken Four Days After a Laudanum Overdose
In the Halloween season, one American writer comes to mind more often than any other: Edgar Allan Poe. That owes in large part to his famously macabre tales like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Masque of the Red…
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When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)
Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Before sending it off, Hetherington asked…
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The Women Breaking the Rules of Balinese Dance
Middle-aged performers are taking on roles once reserved for men, challenging expectations about age and gender in Bali. The post The Women Breaking the Rules of Balinese Dance appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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The social construction of emotions
Are our emotions universal? How two landmark studies upended our view of emotions – and challenged colonial stereotypes - Video by Then & Now Watch on Psyche
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How to be a (Roman) man
Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination - by Catharine Edwards Read on Aeon
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Deciding to detransition
For two years, I lived as a trans woman – happy with my body, but fearful of the world it moved in - by André Aram Read on Psyche
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How Vincent van Gogh’s Sister-in-Law Worked Tirelessly to Make Him Famous
No artist, no matter how solitary by nature, becomes a cultural phenomenon alone. That’s even true of such an isolated figure as Vincent van Gogh, whose death in obscurity at the age of 37 left open the question of who, if anyone, would…
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Ten Poems about Sleep and Dreaming
Visions of the unconscious by Emily Dickinson, Louise Glück, Lucille Clifton, Carl Phillips, and more. The post Ten Poems about Sleep and Dreaming appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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The secrets of Hohle Fels cave
Why aren’t we all Neanderthals? These ancient bird figurines suggest that art was essential to our evolutionary success - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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The ladder of knowledge
What we claim as ‘true’ is not a ceiling we are forever failing to reach but something that changes as we climb toward it - by Alexander V Gheorghiu Read on Aeon