Tag Archives: Life

What Medieval Junk Food Was Like

What was medieval junk food like? If you’re picturing knights eating Big Macs and Twinkies, you’re not far off from the truth. Just substitute a meat pie for the Big Mac and a funnel cake for the Twinkies, and you’ll … Continue reading →

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What does it mean to be a ‘person’? Different cultures have different answers | Aeon

Robert Launay Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University A 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is … Continue reading →

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John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ and his search for home | Aeon Essays

John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ exploded a discipline. But his greatest legacy might be a quieter project of re-enchantment   At the start of the first TV episode of Ways of Seeing, John Berger takes a scalpel to Botticelli’s Venus … Continue reading →

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Walking Gently on the Earth | A Portrait of Annie Smithers

Instagram | instagram.com/guidopezz Web | guidopezz.com Email | info@guidopezz.com “There was an old saying that you could feed a family on an acre of land […]” Walking Gently on the Earth tells the story of Annie Smithers; a chef based … Continue reading →

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Figures and Events Are Transfixed by Time in Pep Carrió’s Extensive Daily Visual Diaries | Colossal

JULY 21, 2022. KATE MOTHES All images © Pep Carrió. Photographs by Antonio Fernández   In 2007, Madrid-based artist and illustrator Pep Carrió’s expansive diary project began as a challenge with a simple premise: to draw something every day. No matter … Continue reading →

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How starfish embryos become living crystals

Physicists have been amazed by the complex system created by simple starfish embryos in a dish of water. For the first time, a multicellular organism has been observed naturally creating a crystalline structure – and one with unexpected properties. This … Continue reading →

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Sustainable and accessible ways to stay cool | The Lancet

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Sharon Begley died in 2021 but her legacy lives on not just in one quote but in a four decade long career in science journalism.

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During a Senate hearing on abortion access, Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley sparred over how to speak about gender. | NPR

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The Taino myth of the cursed creator – Bill Keegan

Dive into the Taino myth of the sea, and watch as Deminan and his brothers accidentally create a new world from a giant gourd. — Before the world of humans began, there was the world of the gods. Four brothers … Continue reading →

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