Wikipedia Entries to Read in the Dark. Love Undetectable: Andrew Sullivan on Why Friendship Is a Greater Gift Than Romantic Love. By Maria Popova.
Los Angeles News and Events. How the Nobel Prize Was Born: A Surprising Story of Bad Journalism, Existential Guilt, and Dynamite. By Maria Popova How a deplored “tradesman of death” brought to life the highest accolade of human achievement.
The only thing more interesting than the colorful history of Nobel Prize laureates — including such remarkable humans as Marie Curie, not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize but also the first person and the only person until recently to win a Nobel in two different sciences, Aung San Suu Kyi, the only laureate who received the prize while under house arrest, and Ernest Hemingway, whose acceptance speech is prize-worthy in its own right — is the founding story of the Nobel Prize itself. Portrait of Alfred Nobel by Gösta Florman / The Royal Library From Olov Amelin, curator of Stockholm’s Nobel Museum, Oldfield learns that the revered Nobel Prize — held today as an echelon of celebrating the human spirit at its highest potential — has a rather dark origin of destruction and confusion. Alfred Nobel's original handwritten will. The history of the Nobel Prize, visualized. One year later: Lessons from "Occupy" on communal living. Photo by Kristyna Balaban It's hard to believe that this time last year, I was "living" outside in a park downtown at Occupy Toronto, with several hundred other people.
The experience was pretty intense — living in a massive open community situation that we simultaneously built while knowing it could only be temporary, kind of like building an awesome sandcastle while the tide is coming in. More Frightening Things to Read. Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Ronald Reagan Plays the President. When you think of Ronald Reagan, you think of jellybeans, Nancy’s power suits, and self-satisfaction.
Decoding Secret Societies: What Are All Those Old Boys’ Clubs Hiding? Their members use secret handshakes and coded language.
In temples, they don ancient regalia, helmets, or masks. Thanks to their veils of secrecy and archaic symbols like the All-Seeing Eye, outsiders find fraternal orders endlessly fascinating. But what does it all mean? By the early 20th century, nearly all of America’s white wealthy elite belonged to one secret society or another. Original, True and In-Depth Stories. The Void Is Staring Across You. The Killer Crush: The Horror Of Teen Girls, From Columbiners To Beliebers. In eighth grade, Mary liked Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily liked Paul McCartney, and I liked Gavin Rossdale.
We probably didn't say liked, though, or even loved. Decoding Secret Societies: What Are All Those Old Boys’ Clubs Hiding? Black & White in Color: Visual Trickery from Eran Amir. I’ll let this fun video from filmmaker Eran Amir speak for itself, suffice to say the entire thing was shot as you see here without any color correction, and here’s a making of to show how he did it.
Amir previously shot a music video using 1,500 photographs held by 500 people around Israel. #296: How do I start to date? A counter-intuitive primer. It’s day 3 of the Captain Awkward Pledge Drive. Get weird, pretty little short film for a dollar! Try to spot Intern Paul in the back of the crowd scene at the end! Everyone who has contributed so far should have received a Vimeo link to stream and download the movie. I hope you guys enjoy it. The Story of Send. An Efficient Server Floor Your message then enters our server floor.
My Dinner With George and Martha. Leave Yoko Alone! Vampires of New England. "[T]he cultural message that waiting until marriage is the best choice is simply wrong. And it's wrong for almost everyone." "On Falling Apart" The Billionaire. Once again, I’d been dumped.
That wasn’t the hard part. I was getting used to being dumped, and had developed a routine involving a lot of sushi and frequent chair massages. Learned to see the advantages in not having a man in my hair all the time. Mount Defiance at Starvation Ridge. Everything considered, the whole experience couldn’t have gone much better.
First, Show the Nearest Child How to Draw a Flip Book. Solange Knowles, "Losing You" Scandals of Classic Hollywood: The Gloria Swanson Saga, Part One. Gloria Swanson wasn’t here to make friends.
She wasn’t “just like us.” Ramens of Japan. How to Start Making Chili. Every Culture Has Its Kreplach. New Fairy Tales. Yesterday I was thinking about Little Red Riding Hood and how stupid she was, to the point where if her story were presented today, people wouldn't publish it. "She thinks a wolf is her grandmother? " Same with Snow White. How to Get Sent to the TB Sanatorium. "If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men." Ask Polly: I Don’t Like My Friends Anymore. Appearing here Wednesdays, Turning The Screw provides existential crisis counseling for the faint of heart. "Stone soup for your dark night of the soul! "