Memes Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorderscientificamerican.com - Claire Wardle As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who enabled communication at …
Blues Music Robert Johnson: The Sound and the FuryVillage Voice - by Greil Marcus An early member of the 27 Club, blues master Robert Johnson has been an object of veneration among such rock luminaries as Eric Clapton and Keith …
Long-form Journalism What Does It Mean To Be Moved?longreads.com - Jennifer Wilson “Why does a ripe apple fall?” Tolstoy asks in War and Peace. “Because the wind shakes it…or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?” …
Play buttonJohn Coltrane A Lost Album From John Coltrane, With Thanks To A French-Canadian DirectorNPR - Nate Chinen"There is never any end," John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the height of his powers. "There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at." Coltrane, one of jazz's most revered
African-American News 400 years ago, enslaved Africans first arrived in VirginiaNational Geographic - Dr. Kelley Fanto DeetzStolen by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to colonial Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. In late August 1619, “20 and
Photography Interview: Human-Like Micro-Expressions of Endangered Animals Around the WorldMy Modern Met - Sara BarnesFor over two decades, photographer Mogens Trolle has captured stunning wildlife pictures on all seven continents. Trained as a zoologist and wildlife biologist, he specializes in mammals and uses his of
Play buttonPink Floyd An Hour-Long Collection of Live Footage Documents the Early Days of Pink Floyd (1967-1972)openculture.com - by Josh Jones Looking back on the Pink Floyd of the late 60s, the fledgling band first led by Syd Barrett can seem a bit like Britain’s answer to The Velvet …
Reggae From Bob Marley to Peter Tosh: the reggae empire built by a Chinese-Jamaican familySouth China Morning Post VP Records’ Patricia Chin, born and bred in Jamaica – and whose studio was used by Bob Marley – celebrates the 40th anniversary of her famous reggae …
Art Before Macro Photography, This Scientist Used to Illustrate His Microscopic FindingsMy Modern Met - Emma TaggartToday, many science books are full of detailed photos that reveal the intricate parts of plant life, but prior to the invention of photography (and macro photography), it was up to botanical illustrators
Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia: The Rolling Stone Interview (Part 1)Rolling Stone - Charles Reich This story originally appeared in Issue 100, the January 20th, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone “The Interview with Garcia” was always one of those things …
Long-form Journalism There Are Places You Cannot Goatavist.com One day in February 2019, Cindy Coleman sped through central Cambodia in a motorcycle rickshaw. Most of the half-hour ride from the capital, Phnom …
William Blake William Blake’s Most Beautiful Letter: A Searing Defense of the Imagination and the Creative SpiritBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees.” “The genius,” Schopenhauer wrote in his timeless distinction between
The Arts The Forgotten Man Responsible for Our Most Iconic National ParksThe New York Times - By TIMOTHY EGANGRINNELL America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West By John Taliaferro Without a doubt, the United States is a better place because of George Bird Grinnell. Born into moderate
Philosophy Leo Tolstoy on Kindness and the Measure of LoveBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.” “Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now,” Jack Kerouac
ConsciousnessAltered States of Consciousness: The Neuropsychology of How Time Perception Modulates Our Experience of Self, from DepressionBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded
Long-form Journalism JoAnn Morgan's Apollo StoryThe Atlantic - Marina KorenJoAnn Morgan stood out against the sea of men in skinny ties and glasses. But she was right where she belonged. Editor's Note: This article is part of a series reflecting on the Apollo 11 mission, 50 later.
The More Loving One: Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads W.H. Auden’s Sublime Ode to Our Unrequited Love for the UniverseBrain Pickings by Maria Popova - Maria Popova“If equal affection cannot be, / Let the more loving one be me.” I wrote Figuring (public library) to explore the interplay between chance and choice, the human search for meaning in an unfeeling universe
Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved.The New York Times A baffling alert. A race to the wrong building. Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York Times reconstruction has found.
Culture Manmade Patterns and Uncanny Shadows Photographed From Above by JP and Mike Andrews | Colossalthisiscolossal.com - Kate Sierzputowski UK based-brothers JP and Mike Andrews began taking aerial photographs of the Earth after a year-long trip experiencing the incredible landscapes …
Why Buster Keaton is One of the Greatest Stunt Performers of All Timetwistedsifter.com Joseph Francis Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, …
Photography Photographer Documents the Beauty of Childhood Without Any DevicesMy Modern Met - Sara BarnesPhotographer Niki Boon is interested in a slower-paced life. Occupying 10 acres of land in the rural New Zealand countryside, she and her family have crafted their own world that’s in tune with nature
John Coltrane The Man They Called ‘Trane’, Remembering A Jazz Giantudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers John Coltrane died on 17 July 1967 having given more to jazz in his 40 years than many who live a much longer life. His music has been an inspiration …
Long-form Journalism Kicked Off the LandThe New Yorker - Lizzie PresserThis article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. In the spring of 2011, the brothers Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels were the talk of Carteret County, on the central coast of North
Chaucer Chaucer’s Divine Seriousness | John V. Flemingfirstthings.com - by John V. Fleming Chaucer: A European Life marion turner princeton, 624 pages, $39.95 Chaucer has not lacked for biographies, but Marion Turner’s is of a rare ambition and …
Jazz Sisters of SwingVanity Fair - Abigail JonesFor a century, jazz was a men’s club. Now a vanguard of women virtuosi—including these 16 standouts—are reshaping this most American of art forms. Half a century ago, the acclaimed music critic George
Remembering João Gilbertolongreads.com - Tom Maxwell Music is contradictory. Highly personal expressions can become hugely popular. Tradition can be reinvented as something completely new. …
An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s HappinessThe New Yorker - Gwen ThompkinsA lot of kids grow up in New Orleans not knowing much about jazz. That was the case with me and my sisters. Never mind that the clarinettist Pete Fountain was always on television back then, or that our
Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural SouthNPR - Debbie ElliottTimothy Duffy is on a mission to document America's vernacular music — specifically, the blues — and the everyday men and women who carry on the tradition. He's the co-founder of Music Maker Relief Foundation,
