BlogFlockOn March 19, 2025, I read a report in Morning Brew that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, had purchased another company called Wiz for a cool $32 billion. I did a double-take not because of the price or the note that “[t]his is Google’s largest acquisition yet–more than twice as much…
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Cecily120 posts last monthCaroline Williams | Dark Mountain | 25th April 2025 | U
Mên-an-Tol is a series of late Neolithic or early Bronze Age standing stones. It stands near the Madron to Morvah road in Cornwall and is regularly visited by walkers who also visit the abandoned tin mine nearby. The central…
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Cecily120 posts last monthLudmilla Petrushevskaya | Paris Review | 24th April 2025 | U
Drawing by Bela Shayevich.
For Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, who spent much of her childhood in Stalin’s Soviet Union shuttling between orphanages, Young Pioneer camps, and tuberculosis sanatoria, storytelling began as a form of survival. “Every night before bed I’d tell…
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Cecily120 posts last monthXander Balwit | Asimov Press | 21st April 2025 | U
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The Timeless Allure Of Tintin's Aesthetics
Cecily120 posts last monthRyan M. Allen | College Towns | 6th January 2025 | U
The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic.
The Adventures of Tintin was a Belgian comic by the artist Hergé that ran from 1929…
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Unwind with the Ancient Japanese Art of Kumiko, a Wood Joinery Technique
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If you’re familiar with the Japanese art of wood joinery, you’ll likely find kumiko equally intriguing. The traditional craft emerged in the Asuka era between about 600 and 700 C.E. and similarly eschews nails in favor of perfectly cut pieces that notch into place. Intricate fields of florals and…
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