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

[ad_1] The expres­sion “YOLO” may now be just passé 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

[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…

[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

David Lynch’s Weird Espresso Maker Gets Taken for a Test Drive

[ad_1] David Lynch loved his cof­fee. For decades, the film­mak­er let cof­fee fuel his cre­ativ­i­ty, drink­ing five, six, even sev­en cups per day at Bob’s Big Boy. Famous­ly, Lynch cel­e­brat­ed cof­fee in Twin Peaks (remem­ber the line, “That’s a damn fine cup of cof­fee!”), and lat­er direct­ed a whole mini-sea­son of Twin Peaks in the … Read more