healing flowers

Stuff i like Stuff I love Some is me Some from above *or below* i have tons of fascinations this is the stuff that makes me feel good makes me feel like me ~the airport here is teeny tiny tho~

[endywood]

Steady now.

[endywood]

Lines

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[mendmebendme]

The Culture Isn’t Finished With ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’—and Neither Is She

Twenty years after the release of Hill’s historic masterpiece, the artist is still revising and reimagining her creation, and we’re still finding new ways to understand it

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Can animals be usefully described as clockwork machines? – Jessica Riskin | Aeon Essays

The idea that nature is a humming, complex, clockwork machine has been around for centuries. Is it due for a revival?

[wsswatson]

you know what’s really irritating

when male academics constantly refer to men by their surnames and women by their first names

like you’d never go to a lecture expecting shakespeare to be referred to as “william” but it’s not at all uncommon to sit through an entire lecture in which jane austen is referred to constantly as “jane”

it’s such a petty thing but it just really rubs me the wrong way, like it has a real suggestion of respect and admiration/lack thereof

[whitetyger123]

kind of like how during the 2016 election everything was Trump vs Hillary

[mendmebendme]

How Instagram Is Ruining the Sushi Market in NYC

Stunt sushi — where wagyu gets piled on top of tuna, and uni gets piled on top of that — is taking over the market

Here’s some post-everything modern madness for you.

[mendmebendme]

The Tyrant and His Enablers

How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.

[mendmebendme]

Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

One discipline reduces behavior to elegantly simple rules; the other wallows in our full, complex particularity. What can they learn from each other?

or....

[mendmebendme]

Mozart on how to unlock your inner creative genius

There is a destructive myth that the ‘creative genius’ is born with an innate, godlike ability to create extraordinary work at the snap of their finger. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

[mendmebendme]

Rilke on the Lonely Patience of Creative Work

“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them.”

[mendmebendme]

The untold good news story of America today

A grassroots movement getting few headlines could yet herald a new American age of change.

[endywood]

[mendmebendme]

Trees That Have Lived for Millennia Are Suddenly Dying

The oldest baobabs are collapsing, and there's only one likely explanation.

Something is pushing them over the brink this time around.

[mendmebendme]

Nature and the Serious Business of Joy

“There can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand, and the…

[mendmebendme]

Study: honey bees understand nothing

Australian scientists taught bees the concept of zero — something human children struggle with.

[mendmebendme]

Why Grandmothers May Hold The Key To Human Evolution

What made us human might have had less to do with men out hunting, and a lot more to do with what was going on at home — with grandmas and babies.