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What is art? It's healthy, is what it is. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-you-should-make-art-even-if-youre-bad-2016-6?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar&utm_term=desktop&referrer=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2zWwygp-eki3GwRdKY3fiBuhjO_mqNLhOTg_6XsKF76Ob2aqNm_9EM5Vo?utm_source%3Dfacebook?utm_source%3Dfacebook

The paradox of tolerance. Without a doubt the most culturally relevant paradox on this list, the paradox of tolerance is the idea that a society that is entirely tolerant of all things will also be tolerant of intolerance. Eventually, the tolerated intolerant elements of a society will seize control, rendering that society a fundamentally intolerant one. Therefore, in order to remain a tolerant society, intolerance cannot be tolerated. And n short, as we become more tolerant, those who we've become i tolerant of take more power. Which makes sense as we're seeing in modern society and liberal tolerance of the intolerant conservatives. https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/10-bizarre-paradoxes?rebelltitem=10#rebelltitem10

The researchers believe that drawing led to better memory when compared with other study techniques because it incorporated multiple ways of representing the information–visual, spatial, verbal, semantic and motoric. A long time ago, in a state far far away, I started doodling while the teachers were talking. It's something I kept with me then one day it was just gone. I don't know when or why, maybe because I stopped being a student, but one day I was sitting in a corporate training wondering why i couldn't retain much of the information. Upon wondering why I realized there were few to no doodles in my notebook. So, I started doodling and the information became easier to retain. via Luna Occulta Originally shared by Neuroscience News Drawing is Better than Writing for Memory Retention Older adults who take up drawing could enhance their memory. The research is in Experimental Aging and Research . (full access paywall) https://neurosciencenews.com/drawing-memory-retention-...

Where did the term "restroom" originate and why do women get those couches in theirs? Well, that's a story from another time ... The women’s parlor at the Emporium in San Francisco offered visitors periodicals and stationery in addition to a place to rest. Similar impressive but no-longer-existing spaces could be found at Higbee’s in Cleveland, the Jordan Marsh Company in Boston, and at the “rest rooms” at Lansburgh & Bro. department store in Washington, D.C. Today, you can still find seating areas adjacent to the women’s restroom in many Nordstrom stores across the country, as well as at Bloomingdale’s and the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/12/history-womens-bathroom-design-lounge/576742/

The Library of Congress is crowdsourcing translations. Do you have it in you to translate and transcribe historical documents?

Do you like art? Well, do ya, punk? Seriously though, if art is your thing, the Met has some good news for you. You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering "five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free." http://www.openculture.com/2018/11/download-569-free-art-books-metropolitan-museum-art.html

Oh, America. How wacky and fun you are. https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/50-strange-but-true-facts-about-the-us?mbid=nl_111618_Daily&CNDID=53497984&weekend=0&utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_brand=cnt&utm_mailing=tvl_traveler_news_newdb_ACTIVE_2018_1116_am+(1)+remainder&bxid=MjY1NDM1NDY3NzkwS0&hasha=e3dc5895feb8dd4fce0995d31f1537f9&hashb=1ea2f25c0d6ce875538efc39adf7ec66bb8cf6c5&spMailingID=14633478&spUserID=MjY1NDM1NDY3NzkwS0&spJobID=1521266007&spReportId=MTUyMTI2NjAwNwS2

Alright, this is just a little too much fun. Yes, I'm that sort of weird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_redundant_place_names

Looks like dude really does look like a lady. More than a millennium ago in what’s now southeastern Sweden, a wealthy Viking warrior was laid to rest, in a resplendent grave filled with swords, arrowheads, and two sacrificed horses. The site reflected the ideal of Viking male warrior life, or so many archaeologists had thought. via Luna Occulta https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/viking-warrior-woman-archaeology-spd/

Denver's International Airport - called #DIA* by us locals - is up to something. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/denver-airport-conspiracy-theories-construction

A large collection of the drawings and writings of one Leonardo Da Vinci (perhaps you've heard of him?) are now available online for your perusal. How neat is that? Part of the difficulty of piecing his legacy together stems from the fact that his hundreds of pages of notes have been distributed across several institutions and private collections, not all of them accessible to researchers. But ambitious digitization projects are erasing those barriers. We recently featured one, a joint effort of the British Library and Microsoft that brought 570 pages from the Codex Arundel collection to the web. As The Art Newspaper reports, the Victoria and Albert has now launched a similar endeavor, digitizing the Codex Forster notebooks, so named because they came from the private collection of John Forster in 1876. See it here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/explore-leonardo-da-vinci-codex-forster-i#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-888%2C-111%2C3250%2C2211 #Davinci http://www.opencultur...

I just love etymology, don't you? #cocktails https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-a-cocktail-come-to-be-called-a-cocktail

History is full of amazing people we just never have a chance to hear about as it only idolizes pre-approved men. Born around 1673, d’Aubigny was taught fencing by her father, an assistant to the Count d’Armagnac. As a teenager, she was married off to a pretty boring guy who bestowed her with one of her famous names: Maupin. Predictably, d’Aubigny, who was having an affair with d’Armagnac, didn’t stick around. Instead, she found a fencing expert, known as Séranne, and ran away with him. The couple traveled the countryside, showing off their fencing skills to the public. When an audience member questioned her gender — she was just too good at sword-fighting to be a woman, you see — d’Aubigny ripped off her shirt in front of him. https://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-badass-rogue-who-cross-dressed-and-dueled-her-way-to-infamy/76908

Maybe, just maybe, I'll remember to look at this before my next trip to Utah. Probably not, though. #Utah #Waterfall #hikes https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865698733/10-Utah-waterfall-hikes-you7ll-fall-in-love-with.html?utm_source=deseretnews&utm_medium=web&utm_content=text&utm_campaign=bvspotlight&ref=distroscale

I could probably sit here and read about cognitive biases all day long. Like many things in life, they fascinate me to no end. Sadly, it doesn't look like the site's been updated with new articles in 8 years. http://cognitivebiases.com/

The below "meme" is especially poignant as I just read an article about the so-called "Imposter Syndrome", usually described as a very capable person who never thinks they're good enough. In full disclosure, I think I suffer from this. While I have never failed to accomplish my goals I always feel it's not enough and everyone else is better at their job than I am. https://www.fastcompany.com/40421352/the-five-types-of-impostor-syndrome-and-how-to-beat-them Originally shared by Knowledge of Today

We all know - or should know - the movie 300 is a highly fictionalized version of a historic event. But did you know how fictionalized? The Greek City States were the world’s earliest democracies. They flourished when they worked together to confront common enemies and fell when they turned against each other. They gave birth to spectacular advances in the sciences, arts, and culture. https://taskandpurpose.com/the-spartans-were-morons/

Has natural selection set us up for failure? The article below argues it does, I say it's a bit more complicated than that and how natural selection has given us the primal tools to survive, which aren't necessarily the tools we need in a modern world. However, many aspects of the modern world still require the built-in tools we've developed as a species over the past few hundred thousand years. And yet, as the article argues, we need to override some of those innate traits and use our developed rational minds to seek success. In our default decision-making state, we let natural selection run its algorithm on us — we will value pleasure and comfort over discipline and dedication at any given moment. What we need instead is to let our rationality take over, and allow it to shift the levers of our mind to their symmetrical positions. In other words, we will need to do the tough work of ensuring that what we inherently know is aligned with what we actually do:...

Progress always happens. You can't stop it, even with total dominion over the culture or society. It can't be stopped, it can only be slowed., but it always prevails. Fifty years ago yesterday a small step in the name of progress spread across the pages of newspapers across the country because one school teacher asked one man to be brave. And he was. #CharlieBrown

In 1910 white residents of Slocum, TX took up arms and went on the warpath against their black neighbors. Many people were killed, all of them black. White defenders of the black people were ruined socially and politically. This is the America of a hundred years ago, but history has a nasty habit of repeating itself. #AmericanHistory https://timeline.com/slocum-massacre-texas-mob-4a212c1e63e7?gi=25bde648cd7a