These Harvard students…did not react well to the report on grade inflation: “The whole entire day, I was crying. I skipped classes on Monday, and I was just sobbing in bed because I felt like I try so hard in my classes, and my grades aren’t even the best. It just felt

Menu from the Stockpot restaurant, Old Compton Street, 1986

This is awesome. Even more than the act itself - he went on the Today Show and announced to millions of people that he's doing an altruistic donation, and encouraged others to do it as well. What a guy.

spot the typo in today’s Guardian

All the saints. From the Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480.

Slums of Old Delhi… at Delhi’s Sunday Book Bazar

O My God… Professor Desai’s copy of Yeats’s Poetry—like a lifetime’s companion

"Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Dark Palace on Saturday", Folio 23v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami #artbots #themet

Here’s a Christmas letter Marx sent to Engels

Over a decade ago, one of the groceries here in Ridgewood had live carp on hand for Christmas. They took a real bath (heh) on it though, with few sales

The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Atomic Radiation, by Margot Bennett. Penguin Special, 1964. Cover by Bruce Robertson.

Aga saga

Thrilled to get royalties from my onetime appearance (sic) on the Simpsons!

Brigitte Helm on the set of the movie Metropolis 1927

In your charity, please pray for the Pope’s November intentions, for those tempted to suicide, and for all those who have died by their own hand

The library at #RichardBurton’s home in Switzerland. To mark the date of his birth 100 years ago today. When asked where he regarded as home, he replied, “Home is where the books are”.

just startled my gay friend and he forgot to do the voice

In the 1950s, an average working class man could buy this house, support motel guests and a stay-at-home mom.

generally speaking the Onion is at its best when mocking the left and the Bee is at its best when mocking the right—it’s much easier to write good jokes about a culture and a group you understand

Yōrō Waterfall, by Tazaki Soun, 1887