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A 1915 advert for Cascade Whisky from the Rock Island Argus. Nashville From the 1890s through the tumultuous years leading to Prohibition, the city of Nashville was very much like the wild west—a bustling, exciting, changing, and dangerous place. Political debates and rallies were frequently held in the downtown streets with hordes in attendance. Legal […]
Hey book community! I'm looking for an app that I could put book notes into that would then cycle them back to me daily. So for example, I would finish a book, put all the notes/quotes that I marked into the app, and then I would get like a daily notification or something that brings […]
By most intense, I mean someone who makes you feel very strong feelings (e.g., hating them with a passion). And by complex, I Mean someone who triggers a combination of very different emotions, like anger but also love. What happened was that I was having a chat with a fellow reader who said he likes […]
Jamie Oliver says he is “devastated” by the offence he has caused to First Nations people and has issued an apology, after calls by Australia’s peak body for Indigenous education for the British celebrity chef to withdraw his children’s book from sale. Oliver is in Australia promoting his latest cookbook, Simply Jamie, but it is […]
Joyspace is a new book by Adam Rolston. His ambitious text, in part a response to Rem Koolhaas’s 2002 essay “Junkspace,” surveys modernism’s discontents, contemporary media addictions, and the dissolution of the binary fields of architecture and interior design. The two sections below bookend the publication: After quite literally asking “How did we get here?” […]
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Writing to the then Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in October 1988, Salman Rushdie lamented that Indian democracy had become “a laughing stock” after the government placed a ban on importing his contentious novel The Satanic Verses. Now 36 years later, the author may have the last laugh as the ban looks set to be […]
Quarterback Matthew Stafford has been smoking in the passing game for the Rams. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Matthew Stafford already moved past Eli Manning on two NFL career passing lists. The Rams quarterback is on the verge of doing it again. If Stafford throws a touchdown pass against the Miami Dolphins on Monday […]
Tonight I've completed the second book of the Odyssey series just now which is "2061: Odyssey Three". Here I again revisit Clarke's fantastic future with two space expeditions that have become completely entangled with human necessity and the laws of physics. And here the survivor of his two previous encounters with the monoliths Heywood Floyd […]
Phineas Gage in the time after his accident. Phineas Gage is perhaps the most famous neurological patient in modern history, called one of the “great medical curiosities of all time” and a “living part of medical folklore.” Malcolm MacMillan of the University of Melbourne records that two-thirds of introductory psychology textbooks cover Gage and his […]