via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
San Francisco circa 1920
“Chalmers touring car on Eddy Street”
Equipped with what seems to be a bed
5x7 negative by Christopher Helin
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Crayons shaped like Minifigs
via Boing Boing by Jason Weisberger
These Minifig/Crayons [link to Amazon.com but probably available in the UK] are fantastic party favors!
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Reading racist literature
Old books promote old social values. But historical insults can be transformed into artistic strength… more
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7 Signs You Are a Seasoned Windows User
via MakeUseOf by Joe Keeley
Windows has been around for longer than a lot of you have been alive. Established in 1985, the popular operating system has gone through many iterations since then.
It’s one of the most widely used operating systems out there and chances are that some of you have been running it since the beginning. Windows certainly has changed since the first version, but some elements remain consistent.
This list is a run down of some of the signs that you’re a seasoned Windows user – old features that have since been discontinued, introduction of new features, and more. Be sure to leave your own thoughts in the comments section at the end.
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On the dark side of devoutness
via OUP Blog by Elisabeth-Marie Richter and Hubert Wolf
The unbelievable story of the Roman convent of Sant’Ambrogio in Rome is about crime and murder, feigned holiness, forbidden sexuality, and the abuse of power over others. Does this controversial story, which casts high dignitaries of the 19th century Catholic Church in a less than flattering light, need to be retold for the 21st century?
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Philosophy and the real world
Studying with Stanley Fish and Richard Rorty, Crispin Sartwell couldn’t help but detect a sense of the end. It was the 80s, and it was an end for philosophy… more
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How to make a microphone out of a matchbox and a pencil
via Boing Boing by Marl Frauenfelder
Dave Hax shows you how to make a microphone out of a matchbox and graphite from a pencil.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Socially Corrosive
via Big Think by Orion Jones
As a physician-assisted suicide bill sits before committee in the California state legislature, Ira Byock, MD, urges a critical examination of the way supporters draw attention to their cause.
Terms like “right to die”, “death with dignity”, and “physician aid in dying” are intended to mean the opposite of what the words signify in reality. Byock argues the terms have taken on Orwellian proportions as supporters redefine them to suit their political ends, repeating them until they appear unquestionably true.
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via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Myths of the brain
Neuroscience is booming, but much of it is trivial or even wrong. When it comes to the brain, we still don’t know much… more
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The rise of the medical humanities
via 3 Quarks Daily by Belinda Jack in Times Higher Education
The cynical account for the rise of the medical humanities – a newish interdisciplinary area that explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine – would be an economic one. At a time of retrenchment in some subjects at some universities, disciplines are under pressure to demonstrate their practical value. Recent research that claims to show that reading novels promotes empathy would be an example of literature’s utility, particularly for medical students. There’s money in medicine and not so much in the humanities. But how new is this field or set of fields? The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates claimed that “wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity”, suggesting both that medicine is an “art” and that there is a crucial association between medicine and the “human” dimension of the humanities.
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