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A History of Jacke in 100 Objects: #1 – The Padlock
I have a theory that everyone has what I call the Personal Singularity. This is the period in your life when some trend or phenomenon so defines you, so matches where you are in life, so inspires you to be all that you can be in a particular direction (for better or worse), that you Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
No, no, this isn’t about the divine Audrey Hepburn. We didn’t catch her cheating, thank god. It’s just a boring old insurance company dispute with Tiffany’s, the world-famous jeweler’s. So boring, in fact, I had to jazz it up with a photo. Here’s another: Sigh. Now onto the case, which is captioned Those Interested Underwriters Continue reading
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An Uneasy Alliance with My Bete Noire, Dark Energy
Sorry to keep freaking you out, readers. I can’t help it! I’m obsessed with Dark Energy. What’s not to like? (And by “like” I mean “be terrified about.”) Here’s Matthew R. Francis, writing in Slate: Even the name “dark energy” is a placeholder for our ignorance, representing the fact of cosmic acceleration without indicating its Continue reading
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The Genius of Vermeer
It’s hard to imagine a more revered painter than Vermeer. But is this our conception of a great artist at work? But the funny thing about Vermeer is that many of his paintings were probably made by the careful application of small splotches of paint, in an almost paint-by-numbers attempt to reproduce, inch by inch, Continue reading
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