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Gustav Klimt, Beechwood Forest, 1903
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Gustav Klimt, Beechwood Forest, 1903
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Ansel Adams, Yosemite, 1940
September 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Ansel Adams, Yosemite, 1940
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Maxim Polivanyi ~ Evening December, 2022
Colours and light are perfect in this one.
Colours and light are perfect in this one.
July 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Maxim Polivanyi ~ Evening December, 2022
Colours and light are perfect in this one.
Colours and light are perfect in this one.
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Alessandro Tofanelli
June 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Alessandro Tofanelli
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Among the lost positives consigned to the dusty corners of the dictionary is ‘reck’, meaning ‘care’, ‘heed’, and ‘consideration’. Which means we can be reckful instead of reckless (and feckful, gormful, ruthful, ept, kempt, couth, consolate, and many more).
March 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Among the lost positives consigned to the dusty corners of the dictionary is ‘reck’, meaning ‘care’, ‘heed’, and ‘consideration’. Which means we can be reckful instead of reckless (and feckful, gormful, ruthful, ept, kempt, couth, consolate, and many more).
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The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize.
Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition.
It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.
Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition.
It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.
March 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize.
Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition.
It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.
Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition.
It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.
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Piet Mondrian "Row of trees in swampy landscape near Duivendrecht" (1905-06)
March 3, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Piet Mondrian "Row of trees in swampy landscape near Duivendrecht" (1905-06)
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The loudest voices rarely represent the majority. They're usually speaking for the extremes.
You won't understand the views of a group until you've invited the quieter voices into the discussion.
Don't mistake silence for disengagement. It's often a sign of deep reflection.
You won't understand the views of a group until you've invited the quieter voices into the discussion.
Don't mistake silence for disengagement. It's often a sign of deep reflection.
February 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The loudest voices rarely represent the majority. They're usually speaking for the extremes.
You won't understand the views of a group until you've invited the quieter voices into the discussion.
Don't mistake silence for disengagement. It's often a sign of deep reflection.
You won't understand the views of a group until you've invited the quieter voices into the discussion.
Don't mistake silence for disengagement. It's often a sign of deep reflection.
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N.C. Wyeth, Bright and Fair - Eight Bells, oil on canvas, 1936.
February 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
N.C. Wyeth, Bright and Fair - Eight Bells, oil on canvas, 1936.
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Gustav Klimt, Forest:
February 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Gustav Klimt, Forest:
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The purpose of negative emotions is not to cause misery. It’s to prevent mistakes.
Outrage is a signal to speak up. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Disappointment is a cue to persist.
Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.
Outrage is a signal to speak up. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Disappointment is a cue to persist.
Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.
February 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The purpose of negative emotions is not to cause misery. It’s to prevent mistakes.
Outrage is a signal to speak up. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Disappointment is a cue to persist.
Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.
Outrage is a signal to speak up. Anxiety is a prompt to prepare. Guilt is a reminder to repair. Disappointment is a cue to persist.
Pain reveals principles. Where we hurt is a clue to what we value.
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Claude Monet
Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect
Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect
February 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Claude Monet
Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect
Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect
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Feed cleanse
February 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Feed cleanse
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They also flagged identity. Florentine law *required* office-holders like Lorenzo to wear the lucco; non-Florentines *couldn’t* unless granted it as a privilege, a step toward citizenship. Foreigners & nobles were immune to such laws, recognizable at a glance, esp. for their *costly* fashions. 18/?
January 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
They also flagged identity. Florentine law *required* office-holders like Lorenzo to wear the lucco; non-Florentines *couldn’t* unless granted it as a privilege, a step toward citizenship. Foreigners & nobles were immune to such laws, recognizable at a glance, esp. for their *costly* fashions. 18/?
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I have a cold so no “Inventing the Renaissance” thread today. Resting. Meanwhile enjoy this painting of the Judgment of Paris with the goddesses looking mind-bendingly medieval. (Bargello museum, Florence.)
January 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I have a cold so no “Inventing the Renaissance” thread today. Resting. Meanwhile enjoy this painting of the Judgment of Paris with the goddesses looking mind-bendingly medieval. (Bargello museum, Florence.)
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The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”
Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.
The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.
The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”
Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.
The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.
The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.
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Bring on all the portraits. I'm fascinated by old portraits.
Time to share my current historical obsession: Clarice Orsini de Medici’s EXTREMELY ILLEGAL HAT! A cool reflection on performing social class, and part of my release countdown to “Inventing the Renaissance” 1/?
January 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Bring on all the portraits. I'm fascinated by old portraits.
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Marcus Aurelius, Bronze, the Louvre, Paris. Fragment of a bronze portrait. Roman artwork, after 170 CE.
January 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Marcus Aurelius, Bronze, the Louvre, Paris. Fragment of a bronze portrait. Roman artwork, after 170 CE.
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brilliant anglerfish street art in bergen, norway
January 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
brilliant anglerfish street art in bergen, norway
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Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
November 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
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Abbas Kiarostami
January 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Abbas Kiarostami
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The Public Domain Image Archive is another great one, just launched this week
January 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Public Domain Image Archive is another great one, just launched this week
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Join us on Friday 7 February for the first Society lecture of 2025: 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World', with Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) bit.ly/4gLj28g.
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
'Dangerous Journeys: Framing women’s movement in the medieval world'
The Royal Historical Society's Medieval Lecture 2025 will be given by Professor Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University).
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January 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Join us on Friday 7 February for the first Society lecture of 2025: 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World', with Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) bit.ly/4gLj28g.
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance
#Skystorians #medieval
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“Families teach us love, and tribes teach us loyalty. The village teaches us tolerance.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
www.theatlantic.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
“Families teach us love, and tribes teach us loyalty. The village teaches us tolerance.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...