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How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance – BBC REEL via YouTube [Video] [Shared]
How a Swedish coffee break can boost your wellbeing and performance – BBC REEL via YouTube In Sweden, a coffee break is more than just a quick hit of caffeine – it’s a longstanding tradition, believed to boost staff wellbeing … Continue reading
The Museum Where Everything Is on Display via Atlas Obscura [Shared]
I am always amazed – and filled with despair – when I see how much of a museum’s collection is hidden from visitors. Virtual online collections certainly help to surface lesser-known pieces, but here is a museum seeking to provide … Continue reading
A Venetian Poltroon: Gentlemanly Bullets by Tim Parks via London Review of Books [Shared]
Tim Parks · A Venetian Poltroon: Gentlemanly Bullets · London Review of Books Between the third and fifth centuries of the Christian era the major world religions ceased to sacrifice animals to appease their gods. For reasons that remain unclear, … Continue reading
The curious history of the clothespeg via The Economist [Shared]
The history of everyday things is fascinating as it illuminates the day-to-day actions of history instead of just the grand battles and the people involved. Great things can come from humble beginnings and the clothespin is just one such item. … Continue reading
A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs by the Legendary Gordon Parks via Atlas Obscura [Shared]
A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs by the Legendary Gordon Parks – Atlas Obscura INDIVIDUALLY, THE PHOTOGRAPHS GORDON PARKS produced during his long and storied career are iconic: Ella Watson, Park’s own American Gothic, posed stoically in front an … Continue reading
18 Free Online Museum Tours To Enjoy Without Leaving Your Couch via The Collector [Shared]
18 Free Online Museum Tours To Enjoy Without Leaving Your Couch As the history of museums is entering its digital age, more and more art institutions are choosing to expand their online services. Most large museums today offer online access … Continue reading
Help Atlas Obscura Explore the British Museum’s Newly Digital Collection via Atlas Obscura [Shared]
Help Atlas Obscura Explore the British Museum’s Newly Digital Collection – Atlas Obscura OVER ITS CENTURIES OF DOMINATION and expansion, the British Empire collected its fair—make that unfair—share of stuff, much of which now resides in the British Museum. Of … Continue reading
The Ten Best History Books of 2021 | History | Smithsonian Magazine [Shared]
The Ten Best History Books of 2021 | History | Smithsonian Magazine After 2020 brought the most devastating global pandemic in a century and a national reckoning with systemic racism, 2021 ushered in a number of welcome developments, including Covid … Continue reading
Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture Goes Digital via Hyperallergic [Shared]
Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture Goes Digital When the National Museum of African American History and Culture first opened its doors in 2016, it was celebrated for its immersive installations that go beyond simply displaying aspects of … Continue reading
For Enslaved Cooks, Persimmon Beer Combined Ingenuity and Joy – Gastro Obscura [Shared] [Food]
For Enslaved Cooks, Persimmon Beer Combined Ingenuity and Joy – Gastro Obscura MICHAEL TWITTY, THE JAMES BEARD Award–winning culinary historian, estimates he has brewed his grandmother’s persimmon beer about a dozen times. Made by fermenting Diospyros virginiana, the diminutive North … Continue reading
Explore Thousands of Free Vintage Cocktail Recipes Online (1705-1951) | Open Culture [Shared]
Explore Thousands of Free Vintage Cocktail Recipes Online (1705-1951) | Open Culture Where do the hipster mixologists of Tokyo, Mexico City and Brooklyn take their inspiration? If not from the Exposition Universelle des Vins et Spiritueux’ free collection of digitized … Continue reading
This Ancient Palace on the Island of Crete Has the Oldest Throne Room in Europe via My Modern Met [Shared]
This Ancient Palace on the Island of Crete Has the Oldest Throne Room in Europe On the island of Crete lies the ruins of an ancient palace. Now part of modern Greece, Crete was once the center of the Aegean … Continue reading
Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order) via Open Culture [Shared]
Watch 194 Films by Georges Méliès, the Filmmaker Who “Invented Everything” (All in Chronological Order) via Open Culture Georges Méliès directed, produced, edited, and starred in over 500 films between 1896 and 1913, most of them brimming with special effects the … Continue reading
Listening To #41 – Pencils via The Boring Talks [Audio] [Podcast]
Listening to #41 – Pencils via The Boring Talks “Behind every boring subject is another layer of boringness you could have never imagined.” James Ward introduces another curious talk about a subject that may seem boring, but is actually very … Continue reading
