Bruce Springsteen suonerà in un contesto piuttosto insolito: in un teatro di Broadway, davanti a una audience molto ristretta (ci sono meno di mille posti a sedere). Lo spettacolo che si chiama "Springsteen On Broadway" verrà replicato per alcune settimane, inizia il 12 ottobre e finisce il 26 novembre con cinque serate a settimana, ed è praticamente è già tutto esaurito. Se siete a New York però vale la pena provarci.
Money quote: "The intimately scaled performances will take place at the Walter Kerr Theatre on W. 48th St. The Kerr, which opened in 1921 and is now part of the Jumamcyn Theaters group, seats less than 1,000 audience members. The last show to be staged at the Kerr was the musical Amélie, which closed in May after it ran for less than seven weeks and failed to garner any Tony Award nominations.
In his announcement, Springsteen noted: "With one or two exceptions, the 960 seats of the Walter Kerr Theatre is probably the smallest venue I've played in the last 40 years. My show is just me, the guitar, the piano and the words and music.""
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/08/09/533227031/bruce-springsteen-is-headed-to-broadway-for-an-intimate-series-of-performances
Money quote: "The intimately scaled performances will take place at the Walter Kerr Theatre on W. 48th St. The Kerr, which opened in 1921 and is now part of the Jumamcyn Theaters group, seats less than 1,000 audience members. The last show to be staged at the Kerr was the musical Amélie, which closed in May after it ran for less than seven weeks and failed to garner any Tony Award nominations.
In his announcement, Springsteen noted: "With one or two exceptions, the 960 seats of the Walter Kerr Theatre is probably the smallest venue I've played in the last 40 years. My show is just me, the guitar, the piano and the words and music.""
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/08/09/533227031/bruce-springsteen-is-headed-to-broadway-for-an-intimate-series-of-performances
NPR.org
Bruce Springsteen Goes To Broadway
The Boss has announced a limited, intimately scaled music-and-words show at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, running in October and November.
Ricercatori americani e cinesi (una collaborazione interessante, no?) avrebbero scoperto come mai ci sono così tanti tipi di rane. Nascono per conseguenza dell'asteroide che ha fatto fuori i dinosauri.
Money quote: "Frogs became one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, with more than 6,700 described species. But a lack of genetic data has hampered efforts to trace their evolutionary history.
The new study shows that three major lineages of modern frogs - which together comprise about 88% of living frog species - appeared almost simultaneously."
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40482039
Money quote: "Frogs became one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, with more than 6,700 described species. But a lack of genetic data has hampered efforts to trace their evolutionary history.
The new study shows that three major lineages of modern frogs - which together comprise about 88% of living frog species - appeared almost simultaneously."
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40482039
Bbc
Frog evolution linked to dinosaur asteroid strike
The huge diversity of frogs we see today is mainly a consequence of the asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs, a study suggests.
In America quelli molto ricchi stanno rapidamente diventando estremamente più ricchi. Ma proprio tanto.
Money quote: "A well-known team of inequality researchers — Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman — has been getting some attention recently for a chart it produced. It shows the change in income between 1980 and 2014 for every point on the distribution, and it neatly summarizes the recent soaring of inequality."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html
Money quote: "A well-known team of inequality researchers — Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman — has been getting some attention recently for a chart it produced. It shows the change in income between 1980 and 2014 for every point on the distribution, and it neatly summarizes the recent soaring of inequality."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html
Nytimes
Opinion | Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart (Published 2017)
This chart captures the rise in inequality better than any other chart that I’ve seen.
Sono solo alcuni megamilionari ricchi da far schifo di San Francisco. È la strada non è una strada ma un pezzo di terreno privato che funge da passaggio stradale. Però il titolo (furbo ma corretto formalmente, a differenza dei nostri) e l'idea stessa che qualcuno ti possa comperare la strada davanti a casa è intrigante. E acchiappaclic di brutto.
Money quote: "They didn’t learn that their street and sidewalks had been sold until they were contacted May 30 by a title search company working on behalf of Cheng and Lam, said Emblidge. The title search outfit wanted to know if the residents had any interest in buying back the property from the couple, the lawyer said."
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php
Money quote: "They didn’t learn that their street and sidewalks had been sold until they were contacted May 30 by a title search company working on behalf of Cheng and Lam, said Emblidge. The title search outfit wanted to know if the residents had any interest in buying back the property from the couple, the lawyer said."
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Rich-SF-residents-get-a-shock-Someone-bought-11738236.php
San Francisco Chronicle
Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street
Thanks to a little-noticed auction sale, a South Bay couple are the proud owners of one...
Per la serie mai una gioia: l'acqua gassata fa male. Eh sì, pure quella. Sigh.
Money quote: "The resulting carbonation means two things: First, sparkling waters have a lower potential of Hydrogen (pH) than flat waters, which makes them more acidic. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham analyzed 379 drinks and found that pH levels of two seltzers clocked in at 4.96 and 5.25. But that's far from the risky 2 to 4 range—where most sodas and fruit juices fall—which puts you at risk for tooth erosion.
Your body also needs to do more work to process seltzer. "The CO2 bubbles have to be absorbed through the gastric walls first," says Gina Sweat, a registered dietician at the Cleveland Clinic. "Flat water just doesn't need to go through that process.""
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8vbd/how-bad-is-it-to-drink-tons-of-seltzer
Money quote: "The resulting carbonation means two things: First, sparkling waters have a lower potential of Hydrogen (pH) than flat waters, which makes them more acidic. Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham analyzed 379 drinks and found that pH levels of two seltzers clocked in at 4.96 and 5.25. But that's far from the risky 2 to 4 range—where most sodas and fruit juices fall—which puts you at risk for tooth erosion.
Your body also needs to do more work to process seltzer. "The CO2 bubbles have to be absorbed through the gastric walls first," says Gina Sweat, a registered dietician at the Cleveland Clinic. "Flat water just doesn't need to go through that process.""
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/xw8vbd/how-bad-is-it-to-drink-tons-of-seltzer
Tonic
How Bad Is it to Drink Tons of Seltzer?
Because life is too short for tap.
Amazon ha preparato un nuovo servizio: instant pickup in cinque campus universitari americani. Ne aggiungerà altri entro la fine dell'anno.
Money quote: "Shoppers on Amazon's mobile app can select from several hundred fast-selling items at each location, from snacks and drinks to phone chargers. Amazon employees in a back room then load orders into lockers within two minutes, and customers receive bar codes to access them."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-pickup-idUSKCN1AV1EF
Money quote: "Shoppers on Amazon's mobile app can select from several hundred fast-selling items at each location, from snacks and drinks to phone chargers. Amazon employees in a back room then load orders into lockers within two minutes, and customers receive bar codes to access them."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-pickup-idUSKCN1AV1EF
Reuters
Amazon adds 'Instant Pickup' in U.S. brick-and-mortar push
Amazon.com Inc is rolling out U.S. pickup points where shoppers can retrieve items immediately after ordering them, shortening delivery times from hours to minutes in its latest move into brick-and-mortar retail.
Trash copy sulla storia di Phoebe Philo e la moda "straordinariamente qualunque".
Money quote: "Nata a Parigi da genitori inglesi (la madre, Celia Philo, è colei che ha diretto lo shooting per la copertina di Aladdin Sane di David Bowie), Phoebe dimostra la sua passione per l’arte della moda fin da giovanissima. A 14 anni i genitori le regalano la sua prima macchina da cucire"
http://freedamedia.it/2017/08/phoebe-philo-e-i-vestiti-che-indossiamo-tutti-i-giorni/
Money quote: "Nata a Parigi da genitori inglesi (la madre, Celia Philo, è colei che ha diretto lo shooting per la copertina di Aladdin Sane di David Bowie), Phoebe dimostra la sua passione per l’arte della moda fin da giovanissima. A 14 anni i genitori le regalano la sua prima macchina da cucire"
http://freedamedia.it/2017/08/phoebe-philo-e-i-vestiti-che-indossiamo-tutti-i-giorni/
Freeda
Phoebe Philo e i Vestiti che Indossiamo Tutti i Giorni
Se non siete appassionati di moda, forse il brand Céline non vi dirà niente, non vi verrà in mente nessun pezzo iconico, nessun pubblicità scandalosa, nessuna chiassosa sfilata con qualche invitato speciale, ma ci sono delle alte probabilità per cui nell’armadio…
Buddismo Zen, Mindfulness Meditation, Wall Street e Silicon Valley. C'è un libro che cerca di mettere assieme, in maniera tranchant e tipicamente americana (iper-fattuale, neo-pragmatica, utilitaristica), cose molto diverse che stanno camminando assieme da un po' di tempo.
Alcune idee di fondo, se si cambia punto di vista e si osserva da una prospettiva esterna, sono interessanti. Ne parla poi meglio il New Yorker (prossimo link) ma intanto Wired si ingegna.
Money quote: "What starts out as a meditation practice with modest aims can easily, and very naturally, go deeper. There is a kind of slippery slope from stress reduction to profound spiritual exploration and radical philosophical reorientation, and many people, even in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, are further down that slope than they realize."
https://www.wired.com/2017/08/the-science-and-philosophy-of-mindfulness-meditation/
Alcune idee di fondo, se si cambia punto di vista e si osserva da una prospettiva esterna, sono interessanti. Ne parla poi meglio il New Yorker (prossimo link) ma intanto Wired si ingegna.
Money quote: "What starts out as a meditation practice with modest aims can easily, and very naturally, go deeper. There is a kind of slippery slope from stress reduction to profound spiritual exploration and radical philosophical reorientation, and many people, even in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, are further down that slope than they realize."
https://www.wired.com/2017/08/the-science-and-philosophy-of-mindfulness-meditation/
WIRED
Is Mindfulness Meditation BS?
Buddhist practice has been co-opted as a capitalist tool. That can be the first step to enlightenment.
Il ragionamento iniziato nella segnalazione precedente di Wired Usa viene ampliato in questo articolo del New Yorker, che parla sempre del libro di Robert Wright sul buddismo ma, anziché pubblicare un passaggio riadattato per la rete (e la carta), lo fa facendo lavorare un giornalista. Meglio. Ne viene fuori un articolo piuttosto interessante: una analisi critica, che stigmatizza un approccio eccessivamente "americano" (tranchant e pragmatico) in maniera tranchant e altrattanto pragmatica. Godibile. Seguirà più tardi una terza parte.
Money quote: "Sometime around 400 B.C.E.—the arguments over what’s historically authentic and what isn’t make the corresponding arguments in Jesus studies look transparent—a wealthy Indian princeling named Gotama (as the Pali version of his name is rendered) came to realize, after a long and moving spiritual struggle, that people suffer because the things we cherish inevitably change and rot, and desires are inevitably disappointed. But he also realized that, simply by sitting and breathing, people can begin to disengage from the normal run of desires and disappointments, and come to grasp that the self whom the sitter has been serving so frantically, and who is suffering from all these needs, is an illusion. Set free from the self’s anxieties and appetites and constant, petulant demands, the meditator can see and share the actualities of existence with others. The sitter becomes less selfish and more selfless."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/07/what-meditation-can-do-for-us-and-what-it-cant
Money quote: "Sometime around 400 B.C.E.—the arguments over what’s historically authentic and what isn’t make the corresponding arguments in Jesus studies look transparent—a wealthy Indian princeling named Gotama (as the Pali version of his name is rendered) came to realize, after a long and moving spiritual struggle, that people suffer because the things we cherish inevitably change and rot, and desires are inevitably disappointed. But he also realized that, simply by sitting and breathing, people can begin to disengage from the normal run of desires and disappointments, and come to grasp that the self whom the sitter has been serving so frantically, and who is suffering from all these needs, is an illusion. Set free from the self’s anxieties and appetites and constant, petulant demands, the meditator can see and share the actualities of existence with others. The sitter becomes less selfish and more selfless."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/07/what-meditation-can-do-for-us-and-what-it-cant
The New Yorker
What Meditation Can Do for Us, and What It Can’t
Examining the science and supernaturalism of Buddhism.
Per concludere la trilogia sulla meditazione (perché la preghiera è nella famiglia della meditazione) ci avviciniamo all'Occidente.
La preghiera può essere molte cose. Può diventare un modo per chiedere aiuto all'Onnipotente, può creare relazioni sociali, di gruppo, può essere trasversale a fedi diverse. Tutti gli appartenenti a confessioni diverse pregano, in un modo o nell'altro. E la preghiera viene da lontano. Ma cos'è? Questa di Aeon purtroppo è una lettura insoddisfacente, per molti versi, però è anche stimolante.
Money quote: "Prayer in general and meditation more specifically have become highly touted as aids to mood, memory and anxiety. Repetitive, meditative prayers such as the Catholic rosary or Buddhist mantras ‘have been shown to have a distinct, powerful, and synchronous effect on the cardiovascular rhythms of practitioners’, report Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman in How God Changes Your Brain (2009). The authors studied a specific course of meditative practice involving 12 daily minutes of breath, chant and finger motions. They found that subjects experienced significantly higher activity in the anterior cingulate, without having any subjective belief in the worldview of which the meditative practice is a part. Those findings were consistent with studies of full-time contemplatives, Buddhist and Christian, who experience dramatic patterns of brain activity when they meditate or pray."
https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-prayer-supposed-to-accomplish
La preghiera può essere molte cose. Può diventare un modo per chiedere aiuto all'Onnipotente, può creare relazioni sociali, di gruppo, può essere trasversale a fedi diverse. Tutti gli appartenenti a confessioni diverse pregano, in un modo o nell'altro. E la preghiera viene da lontano. Ma cos'è? Questa di Aeon purtroppo è una lettura insoddisfacente, per molti versi, però è anche stimolante.
Money quote: "Prayer in general and meditation more specifically have become highly touted as aids to mood, memory and anxiety. Repetitive, meditative prayers such as the Catholic rosary or Buddhist mantras ‘have been shown to have a distinct, powerful, and synchronous effect on the cardiovascular rhythms of practitioners’, report Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman in How God Changes Your Brain (2009). The authors studied a specific course of meditative practice involving 12 daily minutes of breath, chant and finger motions. They found that subjects experienced significantly higher activity in the anterior cingulate, without having any subjective belief in the worldview of which the meditative practice is a part. Those findings were consistent with studies of full-time contemplatives, Buddhist and Christian, who experience dramatic patterns of brain activity when they meditate or pray."
https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-prayer-supposed-to-accomplish
Aeon
Why pray?
Prayer occurs in many faiths. It stays recognisable despite its varied forms. It must be good for something – but what?
Come predire una eclisse senza un computer? Basta saper contare. O costruire il meccanismo di Antikytera...
Money quote: "Perhaps the easiest way to predict a solar eclipse doesn’t require any sophisticated knowledge of the universe whatsoever‚ just the ability to watch, and to count, for a long time. In fact, people have been watching and counting—making calendars, essentially—for almost as long as they’ve farmed the land. “Every organized, agriculturally based civilization develops a calendar, because that’s what you need to determine planting times,” says Ramon Lopez, a space physicist at the University of Texas at Arlington. “You don’t need a heliocentric model, you just need to know rising and setting times of various models in the sky.”"
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-predict-eclipse-computer-math-antikythera
Money quote: "Perhaps the easiest way to predict a solar eclipse doesn’t require any sophisticated knowledge of the universe whatsoever‚ just the ability to watch, and to count, for a long time. In fact, people have been watching and counting—making calendars, essentially—for almost as long as they’ve farmed the land. “Every organized, agriculturally based civilization develops a calendar, because that’s what you need to determine planting times,” says Ramon Lopez, a space physicist at the University of Texas at Arlington. “You don’t need a heliocentric model, you just need to know rising and setting times of various models in the sky.”"
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-predict-eclipse-computer-math-antikythera
Atlas Obscura
How to Predict an Eclipse Without a Computer
Some methods are easier than others.
Un vecchio post che approfondisce, senza lasciare più aree oscure, i mille nomi del pisello e della patata. Sì, proprio quel pisello e quella patata.
Money quote: "«Gli eschimesi hanno 50 parole per nominare la neve». Suggestivo, ma falso: e da poco, peraltro, si è scoperto che lo scozzese ne ha 421… Ma vi siete mai chiesti quante parole abbiamo in Italia per denominare gli organi genitali e i rapporti sessuali?
Fate una stima: ottanta? Cento? Duecento parole? Fino a qualche giorno fa anch’io avevo solo un’idea vaga, perché – strano ma vero – nessuno ha mai fatto un calcolo preciso del nostro lessico sessuale. Perciò ho deciso di farlo io. E ho trovato un dato ancora più sorprendente di quello degli scozzesi: in italiano, le parole del sesso sono 3.163. Tremilacentosessantatre. Per avere un termine di paragone, quasi l’equivalente dei primi 4 canti della “Divina Commedia” (3.463 parole). Altro che neve!"
http://www.parolacce.org/2011/08/03/le-parole-del-sesso/
Money quote: "«Gli eschimesi hanno 50 parole per nominare la neve». Suggestivo, ma falso: e da poco, peraltro, si è scoperto che lo scozzese ne ha 421… Ma vi siete mai chiesti quante parole abbiamo in Italia per denominare gli organi genitali e i rapporti sessuali?
Fate una stima: ottanta? Cento? Duecento parole? Fino a qualche giorno fa anch’io avevo solo un’idea vaga, perché – strano ma vero – nessuno ha mai fatto un calcolo preciso del nostro lessico sessuale. Perciò ho deciso di farlo io. E ho trovato un dato ancora più sorprendente di quello degli scozzesi: in italiano, le parole del sesso sono 3.163. Tremilacentosessantatre. Per avere un termine di paragone, quasi l’equivalente dei primi 4 canti della “Divina Commedia” (3.463 parole). Altro che neve!"
http://www.parolacce.org/2011/08/03/le-parole-del-sesso/
Parolacce
I mille nomi del pisello e della patata – Parolacce
Dicono che gli esquimesi abbiano 50 parole per nominare la neve. Ma noi ne abbiamo più di 3mila per parlare di sesso. Ecco come.
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Nella mia passata carriera di giornalista economico ho scritto numerosi articoli sulla scarsa propensione degli italiani ad usare la "plastic money", il bancomat o la carta di credito. Ma non siamo gli unici. Anzi, attualmente siamo stati superati dai tedeschi, che a quanto pare amano più di noi il contante. Nell'articolo di Quartz, le presunte ragioni.
Money quote: "In other words, the German tendency to settle up in cash undeniably reflects the fact that for much of the last century, Germany has been either on the brink of, in the midst of, or struggling to recover from, disaster. And traumas like that are bound to leave, if you’ll excuse the pun, a mark."
https://qz.com/262595/why-germans-pay-cash-for-almost-everything/
Money quote: "In other words, the German tendency to settle up in cash undeniably reflects the fact that for much of the last century, Germany has been either on the brink of, in the midst of, or struggling to recover from, disaster. And traumas like that are bound to leave, if you’ll excuse the pun, a mark."
https://qz.com/262595/why-germans-pay-cash-for-almost-everything/
Quartz
Why Germans pay cash for almost everything
As banks, technology giants and would-be disruptors such as Square scrummage over the payment system of the future, German consumers seem perfectly happy with the payment system of the past. Germany remains one of the most cash-intensive advanced economies…
Non sono un amante di Chrome e comunque utilizzo un altro approccio a questo tipo di problemi. Però questo progetto su GitHub è piuttosto interessante: un meccanismo per difendersi anche da siti che hanno comportamenti "sociali" scorretti.
Money quote: "Chrome extension which blocks requests to sites which have used legal threats to remove themselves from other blacklists. https://ssl.bblck.me"
https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock
Money quote: "Chrome extension which blocks requests to sites which have used legal threats to remove themselves from other blacklists. https://ssl.bblck.me"
https://github.com/paulgb/BarbBlock
La traduzione è sempre un affare complicato. Significa incontrare gli altri attraverso i testi, le storie, le parole. Se gli altri sono morti da secoli e se il loro pensiero è profondo e complesso, se la lingua appartiene a un ceppo diverso, la traduzione diventa un esercizio estremente complicato che non si limita a spostare il significato delle parole da una lingua all'altra, ma anche ad interpretarlo.
In questo saggio per Aeon, forse riducendo un po' troppo il problema per comprensibili motivi di spazio, c'è uno snodo storico importante che è quello delle traduzioni dei filosofi greci in arabo. Uno snodo vitale per la comprensione non solo della nostra civiltà.
Money quote: "It’s a particularly dramatic example of something that is characteristic of the Greek-Arabic translations more generally – and perhaps of all philosophical translations. Those who have themselves translated philosophy from a foreign language will know that, to attempt it, you need a deep understanding of what you are reading. Along the way, you must make difficult choices about how to render the source text into the target language, and the reader (who might not know, or not be able to access, the original version) will be at the mercy of the translator’s decisions"
https://aeon.co/ideas/arabic-translators-did-far-more-than-just-preserve-greek-philosophy
In questo saggio per Aeon, forse riducendo un po' troppo il problema per comprensibili motivi di spazio, c'è uno snodo storico importante che è quello delle traduzioni dei filosofi greci in arabo. Uno snodo vitale per la comprensione non solo della nostra civiltà.
Money quote: "It’s a particularly dramatic example of something that is characteristic of the Greek-Arabic translations more generally – and perhaps of all philosophical translations. Those who have themselves translated philosophy from a foreign language will know that, to attempt it, you need a deep understanding of what you are reading. Along the way, you must make difficult choices about how to render the source text into the target language, and the reader (who might not know, or not be able to access, the original version) will be at the mercy of the translator’s decisions"
https://aeon.co/ideas/arabic-translators-did-far-more-than-just-preserve-greek-philosophy
Aeon
Arabic translators did far more than just preserve Greek philosophy
In 10th-century Baghdad, readers of Arabic had about the same degree of access to Aristotle that readers of English do today
Per bere un whiskey più buono, bisogna aggiungere dell'acqua. Lo spiegano i chimici. (Quanta acqua esattamente, però, è ancora materia da dibattere).
Money quote: "But at higher alcohol concentrations, the molecules associated with taste will spread out through the glass. "When you increase concentration of ethanol, ethanol will sort of be totally at the interface [between the liquid and the air], fill up the total space at the interface and then start to also be found in the bulk" of the glass, Karlsson says. "And then a lot of the taste compounds will then be transferred from the interface into the bulk.""
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/543902701/chemists-say-you-should-add-a-little-water-to-your-whisky-here-s-why
Money quote: "But at higher alcohol concentrations, the molecules associated with taste will spread out through the glass. "When you increase concentration of ethanol, ethanol will sort of be totally at the interface [between the liquid and the air], fill up the total space at the interface and then start to also be found in the bulk" of the glass, Karlsson says. "And then a lot of the taste compounds will then be transferred from the interface into the bulk.""
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/17/543902701/chemists-say-you-should-add-a-little-water-to-your-whisky-here-s-why
NPR
Chemists Say You Should Add A Little Water To Your Whiskey. Here's Why
It's a common refrain from whiskey enthusiasts: Adding a few drops of water to a glass opens up the flavors of the drink. Chemists in Sweden provide a molecular explanation for why this works.
Storia di libri che raccontano storie di gente che vive da sola nei boschi per decenni
Money quote: "I’m an avid outdoorsman, and I love to read. One day I came across a small article about a man who was arrested for stealing food from a summer camp. The article told a fantastical story: the man had apparently spent twenty-seven years alone. In all those years he had never lit a fire, had a conversation with another human, or even been sick. My curiosity started ratcheting up. The last thing the article mentioned was that this man had stolen books—hundreds, perhaps thousands, of them. My curiosity turned to compulsion, and I decided to write him a letter. I doubted that I’d hear back from him, but to my surprise, he wrote back"
http://hazlitt.net/feature/there-have-always-existed-people-whove-simply-wanted-be-alone-interview-michael-finkel
Money quote: "I’m an avid outdoorsman, and I love to read. One day I came across a small article about a man who was arrested for stealing food from a summer camp. The article told a fantastical story: the man had apparently spent twenty-seven years alone. In all those years he had never lit a fire, had a conversation with another human, or even been sick. My curiosity started ratcheting up. The last thing the article mentioned was that this man had stolen books—hundreds, perhaps thousands, of them. My curiosity turned to compulsion, and I decided to write him a letter. I doubted that I’d hear back from him, but to my surprise, he wrote back"
http://hazlitt.net/feature/there-have-always-existed-people-whove-simply-wanted-be-alone-interview-michael-finkel
Hazlitt
'There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to be Alone': An Interview with Michael Finkel | Hazlitt
Talking to the author of The Stranger in the Woods about the hermit subject of his new book, what it takes to survive 27 years in solitude, and finding contentment in isolation.
Se non siete mai stati a New York, ha un po' poco senso. Ma comunque, se amate vedere il mondo ai raggi X, questo Project Subway NYC è favoloso: viste magiche delle fermate della metropolitana di NYC. Volendo si possono comprare anche le stampe da tenere appese sulla gigantesca parete laterale del vostro loft...
http://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/x-ray-area-maps/
http://www.projectsubwaynyc.com/x-ray-area-maps/
Kozmos è un nuovo servizio di bookmarking che promette di fare ordine nel caos di link che vi sommergono (magari anche quelli che vi metto qui io). È in beta ma se vi iscrivete magari vi prendono.
Money quote "Kozmos is smarter than the bookmarking services you've seen before. It understands the type of content and shows you in a way that you can enjoy bookmarking."
https://getkozmos.com/
Money quote "Kozmos is smarter than the bookmarking services you've seen before. It understands the type of content and shows you in a way that you can enjoy bookmarking."
https://getkozmos.com/