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Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
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Reading about Historical Muses
Started this research project after reading about Georgina Weldon. She’s notorious for having a litigation addiction but I’m obsessed with the time Gounod asked for his sheet music back after their divorce and she sent it with her name written across every page. When he attempted to have her committed, she escaped and... See more
Samia
“Are they real?
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
BBC News | UK | New light on human torch mystery
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“In the mid-1800s, gynecologists experimented with the surgical removal of the clitoris (known as a clitoridectomy) or the ovaries (an oophorectomy) to treat hysteria. Isaac Baker Brown was a well-known gynecologist in England and the president of the Medical Society of London. He recommended clitoridectomy as a treatment for insanity, epilepsy, an
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