via OUP Blog by Michael J. Braddick
As a schoolboy I was told that on the eve of the battle of Marston Moor in 1644, as the rival armies drew up, a sturdy yokel was found ploughing his fields. When brought up to speed about the war between King and parliament he asked, “What has they two fallen out again?”.
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The voice of Siri explains the art of the voiceover
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder
Voice actor Susan Bennett was the original voice of the iPhone assistant Siri. It's fun to hear her use different voices in this video, made by Vox.
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My son-in-law does voiceovers. I had not realised just how much hard work was involved.
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What Happens to Your Brain After 36 Hours Without Sleep?
via Big Think by Natalie Shoemaker
Your brain does weird things when it goes too long without sleep. I remember friends regaling me with military tales of hallucinations from sleep deprivation training. Stories of talking to people who aren’t there, dreams merging into reality, and pink elephants.
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Eastbound Freight: 1943
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
March 1943
“Parmerton, Texas. Passing an eastbound freight on the Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo and Clovis, New Mexico.”
Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information
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The Empty Bath
via Arts & Letters Daily: Colin Burrow in the London Review of Books
At sandy Pylos (as Homer calls it) on the western coast of Greece it’s still possible to see the bathtub of Nestor, who figures in the Iliad as an ancient, well-meaning but rather long-winded hero. Nestor’s bath is a substantial piece of decorated terracotta fixed into a weighty base. It has sat in its present position since the late Mycenaean period (1300-1200 BC), which is roughly when the historical figures behind Homer’s epics are thought to have strode the earth.
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Why do we get bored, and what is the point of boredom? The science of being sick and tired
via 3 Quarks Daily: Tosin Thompson in New Statesman
So, what is exactly is boredom?
The Oxford dictionary describes it as: “Feeling weary and impatient because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one’s current activity”. For a feeling so common, it’s surprising that the word first appeared written down in 1852, in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. In it, Lady Dedlock says she is “bored to death” with her marriage. The late Robert Plutchik, a Professor Emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, created a “Wheel of Emotions” (extended in order of intensity) in 1980, and placed boredom after disgust, as a milder form of disgust.
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Unmasking Origen
via OUP Blog by Mark S. M. Scott
” To be great is to be misunderstood”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
If the degree of misunderstanding determines the greatness of a theologian, then Origen (c. 185-254 C.E.) ranks among the greatest. He was misunderstood in his own time and he continued to be misunderstood in subsequent centuries, resulting in his condemnation—or the condemnation of distortions of his ideas—at the Fifth Ecumenical Council at Constantinople in 553 C.E. Why has Origen been misunderstood? How do we understand him better? We need not agree with his theology, but we should at least do him the courtesy of trying to understand him before joining the chorus of his detractors or defenders.
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A comprehensive collection of John Lennon’s visual art
via Boing Boing by Wink
In the years since his death, John Lennon’s whimsical artwork has appeared on baby bedding, greeting cards, T-shirts, prints, posters and even in a few slim books. But this volume is the most comprehensive collection of his visual works to date. The book includes early drawings inspired by Ivanhoe and other childhood reading, as well as Lennon's darkly funny, Thurber-esque cartoons of the mid-1960s. And it concludes with his gentle, almost Matisse-like sketches of family life with Yoko Ono and son Sean in the late 1970s. Together, you get a full sense of how Lennon used simple artworks to express himself throughout his life.
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Model Tea: 1918
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
San Francisco, 1918
“Buick at Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park”
The styling: Early Perpendicular
Glass negative by Christopher Helin
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