While working on the bio for Millard Fillmore for the next issue, we noticed something…uncanny.
YES.
This feels like the perfect song right now.
(Source: Spotify)
thinking with yer gut
Goddamned fascinating.
Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
when gut microbes from easygoing, adventurous mice are transplanted into the guts of anxious and timid mice, they become more adventurous. The expression “thinking with your gut” may contain a larger kernel of truth than we thought.-Michael Pollan, NYTimes
The Heidelberg Project
Detroit Rock City
Shackleton’s medical kit: Nostalgic idealism vs scientific / technological innovation
Gavin Francis describes the difference between being a base doctor in Antarctica today and a doctor accompanying the expeditions of Shackleton and WIlson:
Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine at the start of the twenty-first century. They spoke of our communications (with question grids for use over radio static), our sexual mores (condoms, the Pill, and the morning-after pill), and even the ozone hole (tubes of factor thirty sun block).
Ours is a nervous age, we’re often told, and the heroes of exploration are all gone. What, I had wondered, did our predecessors like Scott or Shackleton take when they set out into the blank spaces on the map?
Read the whole article, please. It fascinates me that advances in science and technology appear to have led to a decreased individual understanding and an increased reliance on others - seems ironic in this (supposedly) increasingly individualistic world.
Source: Granta
I miss that lady.
I don’t know what it is. Something in his voice. I really can’t get tired of listening to this.
(Source: Spotify)
I like this.
Numbers 14 & 15 are Piegan, like me: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/native-americans-portraits-from-a-century-ago/100489/
This gallery of Edward Curtis photography is worth checking out.
In 1906, etiologist and photographer Edward S. Curtis set out across the United States to draw, photograph and otherwise document the lives of Native Americans that hadn’t yet been contacted by Western society.
Funded by J.P. Morgan, he would return 20 years later with over 40,000 photographs, which he used to illustrate his famous 20 volume series “The North American Indian.” Only 222 complete sets were ever published (one of which sold last year for $1.44M at auction) and even though it has been criticized by some as misrepresenting the Native American culture at the time, its value as a documentary publication is enormous.
HT @nyttjaaa
Wash and wash.
