“What is your face like, your hands holding the pages, the child forsaken in you, who now looks through your eyes at mine?”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/12/14/muriel-rukeyser-the-life-of-poetry-in-crisis/
Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin
Dare to Disturb the Universe: Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Censorship, Writing, and the Duty of Children’s Books
What a splendidly moving book in my youth…
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/dare-to-be-creative-madeleine-l-engle/
Robot artist to perform AI generated poetry in response to Dante
“Ai-Da used data bank of words and speech pattern analysis to produce and perform a work that is ‘reactive’ to the Divine Comedy.”
Japan’s 72 seasons can liberate us from our obsession with productivity
“Seen through the lens of sekki—and even more so, of kō—time no longer looks like an emptiness that has no meaning unless we fill it with doing. Instead, it is an independent incessant flow that’s just structured enough to appreciate its regular passing and the cadence it gives to our lives.”
https://qz.com/work/2027018/japanese-seasons-can-help-us-forget-productivity/
How a Jellyfish and a Sea Slug Illuminate the Mystery of the Self
“A humbling evolutionary antidote to the hubris of exceptionalism, with a side of etymology.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/10/25/lewis-thomas-the-medusa-and-the-snail-self/
Architecting the Metaverse
Nicely speculative…
“Architect as the Bridge Between the Physical and Virtual World”
“Mole” resonates this morning…
Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)
“Haeckel published 100 fabulous prints beginning in 1889 in a series of ten books called Kunstformen der Natur (“Art Forms in Nature”)…”
https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/ernst-haeckels-sublime-drawings-of-flora-and-fauna.html
Witness the majesty of moths taking flight at 6,000 frames per second
Unperceived beauty in the world around us when we have the ability to see it.
This Random Sense of Wonder 