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A Page of Madness: The Lost, Avant Garde Masterpiece from Early Japanese Cinema (1926)

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[ad_1] It’s a sad fact that the vast major­i­ty of silent movies in Japan have been lost thanks to human care­less­ness, earth­quakes and the grim effi­cien­cy of the Unit­ed States Air Force. The first films of huge­ly impor­tant fig­ures like Ken­ji Mizoguchi, Yasu­jiro Ozu, and Hiroshi Shimizu have sim­ply van­ished. So we should con­sid­er our­selves … Read more

Memento Mori: How Smiling Skeletons Have Reminded Us to Live Fully Since Ancient Times

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[ad_1] The expres­sion “YOLO” may now be just passĂ© enough to require expla­na­tion. It stands, as only some of us would try to deny remem­ber­ing, for “You only live once,” a sen­ti­ment that reflects an eter­nal truth. Some bod­ies of reli­gious belief don’t strict­ly agree with it, of course, but that was also true 24 … Read more

One-in-70-Trillion: An Evolutionary Biologist Explains the Mind-Bending Probability of Our Existence

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[ad_1] At a 1998 conference on technology and life, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams once proposed the notion of a sentient puddle. Imagine it “waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather … Read more

The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and


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[ad_1] Author Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930 Title The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 2 (of 2) Original Publication New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907. Credits deaurider, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images … Read more

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