Morgan Meis

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Steven Shapin at the LRB: R oger Penrose​ liked puzzles. In the 1950s, inspired by a catalogue of prints made by the paradoxical Dutch artist M.C. Escher, the young Penrose and his psychiatrist-geneticist father, Lionel, set out to produce drawings of 'impossible objects'.

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

1 week ago | 3quarksdaily.com | Morgan Meis

James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher at Cabinet Magazine:In January 1934, the eminent anthropologist Julius Lips sat in a small hotel room at the Hôtel des Nations in the Latin Quarter of Paris, staring down at a trunk full of cardboard-mounted photographs. It was about all he had with him, having fled Germany with no family, no means of support, and no clear conception of his future except the idea that he might make his way to the United States.

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Mitch Therieau at The New Yorker:There is probably not a second that goes by without an ABBA song being played somewhere in the world.

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Maria Popova at The Marginalian:The best measure of serenity may be our distance from the self - getting far enough to dim the glare of ego and quiet the din of the mind, with all its ruminations and antagonisms, in order to see the world more clearly, in order to hear more clearly our own inner voice, the voice that only ever speak of love. It is difficult to achieve this in society, where the wanting monster is always roaring and the tyranny of should reigns supreme. We need silence.