michaellasley
- "Art helps us to know one another better and to know ourselves more honestly. And it helps us to process our awe and terror at the world and our existence. It’s why those with authoritarian impulses always want to control it ... to silence its practitioners." www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
- Some Thursday night music: Ilomilo, by Billie Eilish. youtu.be/-e7wiyNO2us?...
- "It’s worth noting that a rejection by CBS’s audience can and will be spun as proof that American discourse remains inhospitable to truth-telling mavericks like Weiss. That she has never been one hasn’t mattered yet. Maybe it never will." flaminghydra.com/cbs-breaking...
- "When I set up the presentation there were the three traditional trophies and then there was this sad wee diddy-looking trophy and I was quite embarrassed," he admitted. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Some Wednesday night music: Creep, by Prince. youtu.be/NFXZNt4oLkE?...
- "While only a a sliver of its sunlit surface is visible, most of the Moon's disk can be seen by earthshine as light reflected from a bright planet Earth illuminates the lunar nearside." The Da Vinci Glow (Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25040...
- "Also known as the Moon's ashen glow, a description of earthshine in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans illuminating the Moon's dark surface was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci ...
- ... Of course earthshine is just the most familiar example of planetshine, the faint illumination of the dark portion of a moon by light reflected from its planet."
- If you need a little beauty this afternoon.
- Michelangelo's First Painting, Made at Age 12. (This is an intense painting; painting it in a 7th grade art class today would result in a parental summons to the principal's office.) [kottke.org]
- "Everything we know about skin has been learned from so-called scientific studies funded by large corporations who have a financial stake in keeping our musculature covered in an unnecessary layer of man-made flesh," said the self-proclaimed "membrane skeptic." theonion.com/rfk-jr-quest...
- "The other day, the school was unusually quiet. Its corridors, colorful with children’s art, had phrases of encouragement ('together is always better') painted on the walls. One hallway had a line of bikes for kids to learn how to ride ..." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
