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3quarksdaily.com
Genetic studies support what historians have argued for decades: ancient India was a place of migration and mixture

the history of how that history has been imagined, framed and written at different times by different people over the past 200 years is almost equally enthralling.

— Kiran Kumbhar
1d ago

The task, then, is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.

2w ago

The poet only asks to get his head into the world, but the world always strikes back and prevents him from seeing anything.

3w ago
notboring.co
Weekly Dose of Optimism #189

It's hard to recognize you're in a sci-fi novel when you're living through it, but if you zoom out a little bit, it sure looks like we are.

3w ago
longreads.com
The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt

I was trying to find the human side of history, and humans were often my best source. When I thought about Sacajawea in the Rockies, trying to keep her infant son alive, I thought about my own kids at that age—about my wife breastfeeding them, both parties always hungry, always thirsty.

3w ago

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Every man is wise when attacked by a disease from which he is never likely to suffer.

4w ago

The mind, once expanded by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

1mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Monday Media Diet with Celeste Blewitt

During the pandemic, Australia was closed to the world, international and domestic borders closed for nearly two years. WITI gave me the opportunity to time travel all over the globe.

1mo ago
themarginalian.org
Corrective for a Broken Heart

Why all the threadbare drama, the stale catastrophism of calling it broken? It still beats, doesn't it, still trembles at the sight of fog flowing through the forest like a slow dance song. It was only dislocated, lost its locus for a while, popped out of the socket of good sense.

1mo ago
themarginalian.org
How to Stop Doing and Start Living

Maybe it was the sudden sense of death dislodged, however temporarily, that made me look at the small, seasonal deaths around me with a feeling of kinship. Fallen leaves soften the path I walk on, but not for my sake. The leaves fall to feed the trees, to shelter the creatures who are essential to this forest in a way that I will never be.

1mo ago
whyisthisinteresting
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 97

How are things different now from the way they were in the golden age? The best way to answer that might be to imagine what someone from the golden age would notice if we brought him here in a time machine.

1mo ago

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

1mo ago

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. The fact that some of us look at the stars does not make us better than those who do not.

2mo ago

The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees.

2mo ago

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