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Imagination vs. Creativity

I like to make a distinction between imagination and creativity that you may or ...

Intellectual Menopause

I ran across the alarming phrase intellectual menopause a few months ago in John...

Truth-Seeking Modes

Been on a Venn diagram kick lately, since being primed to think in Venns by Harr...

Ribbonfarm is Retiring

After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTL...

The Stunt That Ended Buster Keaton’s Brilliant Career

Buster Keaton’s penchant and skill for comedic stunts made him one of the bigges...

Tim Burton Visits a Paris Video Store & Talks About His...

Tim Burton grew up watching Japanese monster movies in Burbank, which must expla...

2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks t...

In 2018 we brought you some exciting news. Thanks to a generous donation from Da...

What Is Kabbalah? An Introduction to the Jewish Mystica...

Though the pop-cultural moment that gave rise to the association has passed, whe...

Why Knights Fought Snails in Medieval Illuminated Manus...

The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a ma...

Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972)

Joan Baez was already heralded as the “Queen of Folk” by the time Robert Zimmerm...

Discover the World’s Oldest Surviving Cookbook, De Re C...

Western scholarship has had “a bias against studying sensual experience,” writes...

The Oldest Unopened Bottle of Wine in the World (Circa ...

Image by Immanuel Giel, via Wikimedia Commons It’s an old TV and movie trope: th...

Yuval Noah Harari Explains How to Protect Your Mind in ...

You could say that we live in the age of artificial intelligence, although it fe...

75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have ...

Between 1985 and 1988, a teenager by the name of Sohrab Habibion was attending p...

21 Rules for Living from Miyamoto Musashi, Japan’s Samu...

Browse the ever-vaster selection of self-help books, videos, podcasts, and socia...

Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from...

In 1942, John Cage composed a short piece of music adapted from the text of Jame...

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