Pages from Frida Kahlo’s diaries, a fine addition to these glimpses inside the notebooks and sketchbooks of great creators.
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Chance favors only those who know how to court her.
Wisdom on the role of chance in discovery and creativity from Nobel-winning French bacteriologist Charles Nicolle and other iconic scientists.
24 gorgeous vintage magic lantern slides of Alice in Wonderland, based on Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations.
The self is something that is central to a lot of psychological questions and, in fact, a lot of psychologists have difficulty describing their work without positing the notion of a self. It’s such a common daily, profound, indivisible experience for most of us. Some people do manage to achieve states of divided self or anatta, no self, they’re really skilled Buddhists. But for the majority of us the self is a very compulsive experience. I happen to think it’s an illusion and certainly the neuroscience seems to support that contention.
British experimental psychologist Bruce Hood on essentialism, further confirming the idea that character is fluid and there is no such thing as a fixed self.
Faulkner was a postmaster, Kafka an insurance agent, Brontë a governess. The day jobs of famous authors.
We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth.
Ray Bradbury and other famous authors on truth vs. fiction
A second-grader asks Neil deGrasse Tyson whether two black holes can collide and swallow one another. The answer involves backwards time travel – enough said.
