Photographs by Aaron Siskind from the archives at the George Eastman House. The passage of time has given the furnishings of the rooms he photographed a perhaps spurious air of distinction; still the “most crowded block in the world” was surprisingly genteel. Via Wood s Lot.
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Images at the NYPL: Look but don’t touch
The New York Public Library has a digital gallery containing thousands of images. Historians of science will be most interested in the Nature and…
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The frozen coachman
Catarina Dutilh Novaes’ item on literature and on what, thanks to her and to Helen de Cruz, I now know to call “moral…
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Plucks, warbles, blinking lights
(See Mohan Matthen, “ The sense of time passed”, at NewAPPS.) Is there a primitive feeling of duration? There are bodily feelings which…
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