Frances MacDonald MacNair
‘The Omen’
1893
That Circuitous Route
The Japan Interview, also known as the most important event in human history.
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We’ve entered what some scientists are calling the Anthropocene — a new geologic epoch in which human activity, more than any other force, steers change on the planet. Just as we’re now causing the vast majority of extinctions, the vast majority of endangered species will only survive if we keep actively rigging the world around them in their favor. … We are gardening the wilderness. The line between conservation and domestication has blurred.
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Mark Twain on “sponsored content” and “native advertising,” 1873.
In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest definitions of art.
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Ruven Afanador
Celebrating the Absolute Wonder of Brian Eno on His Birthday
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birthdays today: Joseph Cotten, James Mason, Constance Cummings, Richard Avedon, Jasper Johns, Madeleine Albright, Brian Eno and Chazz Palminteri
