In this, the age of AI, I'm very grateful a reader of my newsletter recommended this book to me: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen

When you start a chess game, you have 20 moves available (16 for pawn and 2 for one knight). After completing the first movement you have more than 40 different possibilities. And 8900 in the third and 197740 in the fourth. In the 40s there will be 10 puissance 40 possibilities.

El barrio

Stalin’s daughter raging during an interview

Your palate is not just bone.

La venganza de un actor (Kon Ichikawa, 1963) es un deleite estético dentro de la magistral paleta de colores que maneja: nos habla de un onnagata, un actor masculino que representa personajes femeninos en el teatro kabuki y que planeará una calculada revancha. Imprescindible.

Sandro Botticelli - Dante and Beatrice in Stars

Grave of Tiddles the church cat, St. Mary's Church, Fairford,1963 - 1980.

𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐠𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐥𝐜𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 In 1784, David Roentgen astonished his royal patron when he presented this exquisite automaton to Louis XVI for

The most dangerous psychological sign

Cathy Rose, Work, 2021, Sculpture, hand-formed porcelain and found materials, 11 x 8 x 3 in 28 x 20 x 8 cm. Collection: Seager Gray Gallery

This is an absolute gem.

Making a Transistor Radio, written by George C. Dobbs and illustrated by B. H. Robinson (1972), is a hands-on guide to the foundations of radio construction. it leads the reader from a simple crystal set through diode detection and transistor amplification to a working radio.

Are we losing our ability to understand the philosophical greats? Babette Babich argues that translating the works of great philosophers ultimately leads to their arguments being misunderstood, a problem increasing as fewer and fewer people can read Ancient Greek. Babich is

Un libro magnífico...que incluye una joya: El estereoscopio de Aleksandr Pávlovich Ivanov.

Décembre 1975: à Apostrophes, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie évoque le village occitan de Montaillou, à l’occasion de la sortie de son livre, qui fut un immense succès de librairie, traduit dans plusieurs langues.

"Cavalry Officer," by French painter, René-Georges Gautier, 1927.

One thousand years ago, the Song dynasty’s Yi Yuanji painted this monkey holding a cat.

L’homme explique que le chant a disparu parce que le tracteur a remplacé le cheval. Ce n'est pas seulement un changement technique : ​Le rythme : Travailler avec des animaux imposait un rythme plus lent et plus "organique", propice au chant. ​Le bruit : Le moteur du tracteur

Faith does not silence reason but radicalizes it. When reason closes itself to transcendence, it shrinks. When opened to revelation, it discovers its own horizon.