Random thoughts and links on books, art, science and anything interesting.@McCallumCathy
to see if we can survive,
severed. — Denise Levertov, from “Divorcing” (via the-final-sentence)
De Nieuwe en onbekende weereld: of Beschryving van America en ‘t zuid-land was first published in Dutch in 1671. This large ‘encyclopedic’ geocartographical book about the New World was written by Arnoldus Montanus, variously described as explorer, missionary and trader but who published a number of other important works…
David Attenborough
Speaking at the RSA President’s Lecture last year, David Attenborough made a profoundly subversive comment disguised as an innocent joke: “Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad, or an economist.”
The trouble is that political and policy arguments are largely driven by the methods and metrics of economists. So while the means to the end of achieving economic growth are constantly debated, the legitimacy of the end itself is barely questioned. In this sense most of our political class are indeed ‘mad’. The problem with Attenborough’s joke is that after the laughter has subsided here we all are, believing in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet.
chocolate and popcorn skulls
(via originofcool)
Lovely photo. Reminds me of Flemish still-life art.
(via thequestionofclarity)
Mary Delany, Pancratium Maritinum, 1778
Collage of colored papers with watercolor
British Museum
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