The Walrus

2020-07-27 19:39:20 “Why pay big-city rents for an undersized apartment if you can pursue an equally attractive career from a house in the hills?”


https://www.politico.eu/article/the-death-of-the-city-coronavirus-towns-cities-retail-transport-pollution-economic-crisis/ Aprire / Come

2020-07-25 15:45:24 “One day, Steven called me and said, ‘Do you know George Lucas?’ I said, ‘No, I have no idea who he is.’ ‘Well, he’s got this thing called “Star Wars,” and he wants to have a classical’—his term, he didn’t say Romantic—‘classical score, and I’ve convinced George he should meet you, because he admired the score for “Jaws.” ’ I came out here one night, to Universal Studios, and met George.”


https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-force-is-still-strong-with-john-williams Aprire / Come

2020-07-21 19:11:11 “But even today there are plenty of autorickshaw drivers in Old Delhi who will tell you about the prince who lived in the jungle. And they will be telling that story long after mine has come and gone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/the-jungle-prince-of-delhi.html?referringSource=articleShare Aprire / Come

2020-07-02 12:50:27 Local witnesses say some elephants were seen walking around in circles, which is an indication of neurological impairment. “If you look at the carcasses, some of them have fallen straight on their face, indicating they died very quickly. Others are obviously dying more slowly, like the ones that are wandering around. So it’s very difficult to say what this toxin is"


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/more-than-350-elephants-dead-in-mysterious-mass-die-off-botswana-aoe?fbclid=IwAR0BvfJ4RHKUAi7ENS6xJouPx1lkGMXI-bbz6Brx1MRxupm1GjFnJcJejk4 Aprire / Come

2020-06-15 18:50:41 “What is true is that Dante’s origins are deeply embedded in the old Italian neighborhood. Between 1900 and 1914, roughly two million Italian immigrants arrived in New York, and by 1930, approximately half that number had settled in the city, many of them downtown in an area that stretched from Mulberry and Mott Streets in the east to Carmine in the west, south below Grand and north to Washington Square Park. Macdougal Street was one of the main thoroughfares where restaurants, shops and coffeehouses — including Caffé Dante — opened.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/t-magazine/caffe-dante-nyc.html?referringSource=articleShare Aprire / Come

2020-06-05 20:14:01 Una raccolta di brevi racconti su Twitter.

https://longreads.com/2020/01/15/free-short-stories/ Aprire / Come

2020-05-31 20:31:15 La strada è stata lunga, diciamo.



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2020-05-24 14:42:57 The rise of mainstream conspiracism is the result not just of bad information or bad politics or bad thinking, but of systems built to stoke paranoia and to profit from mistrust. This project is an attempt to illuminate the forces that have created this unreality—and chart a course for how we might feel our way out.

https://www.theatlantic.com/shadowland/ Aprire / Come

2020-05-23 12:00:56 Interstellar for dummies.



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2020-05-20 15:08:56 Anche voi?

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/lockdown-nudism-increase Aprire / Come