Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
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"Curious History Pocket Calculator"
The document discusses the history and features of the Curta calculator, an innovative mechanical pocket calculator invented by Curt Herzstark during his time in a concentration camp.
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Thinking of the 19th century French artist Grandville and his satirical carrots. His drawings were wildly surreal, yet so politically biting that he was persecuted by the monarchy. He broke from the conventions of realism, and tapped the uncanny non-rational order of dreams
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Do we ask the point of knowing what Einstein thought? Do we make a great puzzle of why Mozart is played in so many adverts or why Vermeer stops everyone in their tracks? Do we need to be reasoned into reading our way through hundreds of pages about behavioural economics or the history of early humans? Do we wonder whether seeing a work of... See more
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That can explain the actions of people like Hiram Edson, who watched the prophecy fail and then decided, actually, the prophecy hadn’t failed at all. The Second Coming had instead been a purely heavenly event—Jesus had moved from the “Holy Place” to the “Most Holy Place” and began a new era of history, indiscernible from all previous eras of... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The day the world didn't end
One way to make it easier to drop your grudges is to see how funny they look on other people. Alain de Botton flips out on someone who negatively reviews his book: “I will hate you til the day and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you ever make. I will be watching with interest and schadenfreude.”
Alara • Review of Alain de Botton’s “Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”
this is so funny omg Alan De Botton commented on a dude’s post who reviewed his work badly I’m dying
i wish there was a way to add multiple cards to a collection at once.
Historian Gerda Lerner says that this marks a "counterfactual account of the origin of human life" in which man is literally the woman's mother.
Elan Ullendorff • A brief history of creativity (and power)
The Venetian Atlas is a recently rediscovered work of the 14th-century Genoese cartographer Petrus Vesconte, thought to have been completed towards the end of his Venetian period (c. 1330). Though the geographer has long been renowned for the accuracy of his nautical maps of the Mediterranean and Black seas, this long-lost portolan chart is... See more