Colin Marshall
Host and Producer, Notebook on Cities and Culture and Contributor at Freelance
Co-founder, Diamondback Beer // working on what’s next
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2 weeks ago |
openculture.com | Colin Marshall
Contrary to somewhat popular belief, Chinese characters aren’t just little pictures. In fact, most of them aren’t pictures at all. The very oldest, whose evolution can be traced back to the “oracle bone” script of thirteenth century BC etched directly onto the remains of turtles and oxen, do bear traces of their pictograph ancestors.
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2 weeks ago |
openculture.com | Colin Marshall
It’s difficult to imagine that there was ever a time without the word “Kafkaesque.” Yet the term would have meant nothing at all to anyone alive at the same time as Franz Kafka — including, in all probability, Kafka himself. Born in Prague in 1883, he grew up under a stern, demanding, and perpetually disappointed father, then made his way through college and entered the workforce.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Colin Marshall
NowFantasy Novels for People Who Think They Don’t Like FantasyInterested in dipping your toe into the genre? The author Leigh Bardugo recommends books that can get you started. Listen, I know you’re a sensible person. You live in the real world. You read books about real people doing real things. You reject escapism in all of its forms.
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2 weeks ago |
openculture.com | Colin Marshall |In ART
As much as you may enjoy a night in with a book, you might not look so eagerly forward to it if that book comprised 314 folios of 1,971 papal letters and other documents relating to ecclesiastical law, all from the thirteenth century. Indeed, even many specialists in the field would hesitate to take on the challenge of such a manuscript in full.
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2 weeks ago |
openculture.com | Colin Marshall
Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define.
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