Virginia Woolf: A Mind of Her Own
Virginia Woolf: A Mind of Her Own Her life from Kensington and Cornwall to Bloomsbury and Sussex
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Memory’s saving grace
Memory's saving grace: how history, carried in deep recollection, can rescue us in adversity. Meantime they were strolling slowly along the path and suddenly Smurov exclaimed: “There's Ilusha's stone, under which they wanted to bury him.” They all stood still by the big stone. Alyosha looked and the whole picture of what Snegiryov had described [...]
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Monet and leadership (Rob Goldberg, Organization Insight)
Using art to discover deeper meaning in work and life.
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Medicine, morality, and suffering
Medicine, morality, and suffering: what can experience teach us about medical objectivity? “There is no real difference between a warm, snug study and this ward,” said Andrey Yefimitch. “A man's peace and contentment do not lie outside a man, but in himself.” “What do you mean?” “The ordinary man looks for good and evil [...]
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Nursery rhymes and brain development (Pallab Ghosh, BBC)
Nursery rhymes and brain development: "baby talk" of parents brings children in sync with their brain waves, helping them learn. From the article: The early indications are that when the brain waves of mothers and babies are out of sync, the babies learn less well. But when the two sets of brainwaves are in tune [...]
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Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston (September 2016 – January 2017)
Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston: three venues showcase the rich store of imagination in Europe before modernity. From the description: The exhibition presents more than 260 outstanding manuscripts and printed books from nineteen Boston-area collections, dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries. h/t Roberta Morosini
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The human difference? (David Robson, BBC)
The human difference? Perhaps the humanities: fluid language and historical sensibility. From the article: The first astonishing fact is that we can speak at all, of course. No matter what you’ve been thinking and feeling throughout the day, you will be able to find words to express the experience and describe it to those around [...]
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Technology’s cost, humanity’s price
Technology's cost, humanity's price: whether we understand the ways technology asserts its influence even over our most basic self-understanding Modern science and the total state, as necessary consequences of the nature of technology, are also its attendants. The same holds true of the means and forms that are set up for the organization of public [...]
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Platinum, poetry, and the past: using science to imagine the poet’s response to history
Platinum, poetry, and the past: using science to imagine the poet's response to history Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.... In the last article I tried to point out the importance of the relation of the poem to other poems by other authors, and suggested the conception [...]
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Coco Chanel and the Art of Reading: Exhibit in Ca’ Pesaro, Venice
Coco Chanel and the Art of Reading: Exhibit in the Ca'Pesaro, Venice, through 8 January 2017. From the description: From Greek authors to modern poets, Gabrielle Chanel’s abundant library reveals the works that left an impression on her life and shaped her personality.... This dialogue through the ages, from antiquity to her contemporaries, is underlined in particular by [...]