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Meet the Syntopicon: The Ambitious Index That Tried to Organize All of Western Thought (1952)
about 19 hours ago
Mortimer J. Adler rose to cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth-century United States...
Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)
2 days ago
Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer...
The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years
2 days ago
As Bangkok rises into the ranks of the world’s great culinary destination...
An Entire Ancient Greek Philosophical Treatise Burned by Mount Vesuvius Has Been Deciphered with X‑Ray and AI Technologies
3 days ago
Most of our conception of Stoicism, an ancient school of thought much...
Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate
3 days ago
Image by Bernd Schwabe, via Wikimedia Commons When Eichmann in Jerusalem—Hannah Arendt’s...
When Bill Murray Unexpectedly Adapted a W. Somerset Maugham Novel: The Razor’s Edge (1984)
4 days ago
In summer of 1984, American popular culture was dominated by Ghostbusters, a...
How Japan Invented Daisugi, the Ancient Method of Growing Lumber Without Cutting Down Trees
4 days ago
Ask anyone, of most any age and in most any society, how...
Rare Film of Sculptor Auguste Rodin Working at His Studio in Paris (1915)
7 days ago
We’ve previously featured a series of remarkable little films of French artists...
When The Surrealists Expelled Salvador Dalí for “the Glorification of Hitlerian Fascism” (1934)
8 days ago
Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons...
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: Where “Fake News” Began
8 days ago
Thinking back to the many childhood grocery-store trips made with their parents,...
Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks, Separated for 400 Years, Have Been Reunited and Put Online
9 days ago
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and...
How to Cook Like Frida Kahlo & Georgia O’Keeffe
9 days ago
It’s a myth that starving artists don’t eat. They do, just not...