Too Consumed to Ingest the world around us?
Source: The Daily Quirk
What’s more important to you; actually enjoying the moment or taking a photo of the particular moment to show that you were enjoying it?
Arts & Entertainment
Teenage Artist Donates $1 Million to Charity
Source: American Profile
Jeff Hanson has a visual impairment himself but has used his talent as an artist to hugely benefit those less fortunate.
Robert Frost Biography
Source: Biography
An acclaimed American poet, Robert Frost didn’t have any of his work published until after he was 40 years old. He went on to receive much recognition and many awards, including four Pulitzer Prizes.
Josephine Baker—A French and American Hero
Source: Articles on History
Rising from poverty in St. Louis to become an entertainment superstar in her adopted home of Paris, Josephine Baker could easily have enjoyed a life of leisurely wealth. Instead, she aided the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of World War II and later spoke out for American civil rights.
Shakespeare Inspired Robben Island Inmates, Including Mandela
Source: Voice of America
Publishers have been cranking out editions of Shakespeare’s works for hundreds of years. So what makes an ordinary 1970 edition, pasted with pictures and marked with handwritten notes, so special?
Why Are Shirt Buttons on Different Sides for Men and Women?
Source: Mental Floss
Read about some interesting theories related to fashion for men and women. Did nobility dictate the differences in fashion?
I Wonder What It’s Like To Be Dyslexic
Source: Sam Barclay
To give people an idea of what it’s like to have dyslexia, Sam Barclay, a UK graphic designer, produced a typographic visual representation of how he sees text on a page.
Why Success Makes Us Risk Averse
Source: Psychology Today
Psychologist Ruth Blatt uses music as an example to explain how achieving success can often lead to risk aversion.
Patriotism on Broadway
Source: The Economist
The timelessness and universality of Alexander Hamilton’s story is explored in this review of the popular hip-hop musical Hamilton.
Photography in the Age of Falsification
Source: The Atlantic
Even when Photoshop can create false or impossible images, we still tend to trust what we see in photos as real. But not only can we not trust the veracity of photos now—images have been manipulated for aesthetic and political effect since the dawn of photography.