Over the Holidays in 2020, I read the “Stanisław Lem’s Reflections on the Objects of His Childhood Home”, an excerpt of Lem’s memoirs: Highcastle, published by MITPress. “On rare occasions the desk would also store more valuable treasure, more valuable from my point of view…
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New York Times Magazine published an interview with Yo-Yo-Ma on November 29th, 2020. Yo-Yo Ma and the meaning of life. By David Marchese Q: People have drawn so much from Bach’s Cello Suites this year. Those pieces were originally composed as study exercises., and yet…
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Alexander Calder: Young Woman and Her Suiters Today, Molly Cantrell-Kraig posted a similar sculpture on Twitter. Flamingo by Calder. It’s sited at The Federal Plaza on Dearborn and Adams in Chicago. It’s my favorite sculpture. This view is taken from the southeast, closer to Clark…
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There were multiple occasions, when it was clear to me that Facebook’s success is in part due to making profit of the propagated hate on its network. Facebook’s leadership could play naive in 2017, when it came out that their network was partly taking over…
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All of the sons of Adam are part of one single body, They are of the same essence. When time afflicts us with pain In one part of that body All the other parts feel it too. If you fail to feel the pain of…
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… The Major League Baseball reopened with the Washington Nationals playing the New York Yankees on their home field. Before the game, every player and every coach in the playing area held up a black banner that stretched along the first base and third baselines,…
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