Author: robert.adlington

Chocolaterie, fromagerie, parfumerie … Parisian shops sound as gorgeous as they look. We choose stores with a history of exquisite craftsmanship — Read on www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/dec/07/13-of-the-best-and-most-beautiful-shops-in-paris

THE LUDIC LOOP of the internet has automated our inner worlds: we don’t have to choose what we like, or even if we like it; the algorithm chooses for us. Take Shein, the fast fashion leviathan. While other fast fashion brands wait for high-end houses to produce designs they can replicate cheaply, Shein has completely…

Les mèmes d’extrême droite se diffusent dans un écosystème qui s’est encore étoffé depuis 2016, incluant les réseaux sociaux d’extrême droite Gab, Truth Social, Gettr et Parler. Sans oublier X (ex-Twitter). Car le militant d’extrême droite le plus visible au monde, Elon Musk, est désormais propriétaire d’un réseau social entier, sur lequel il diffuse quotidiennement…

There’s an assumption that because of the relationship between metabolic rates, volume, and surface area, animals get an average of one billion heartbeats out of their bodies before they expire. Turns out there’s some truth to it. — Read on kottke.org/13/02/does-every-species-get-a-billion-heartbeats-per-lifetime

The natural world, as we learnt from the horrors of Grizzly Man, is not easily compared with ours. The structures we adopt for our stories — be they tragic, romantic or comedic — do not fit nature quite so tightly, and Herzog knows this. Any facts about the penguins’ motivations and thought processes remain unobtainable.…

Depending on the species, and the dimensions, each log in your fire might represent the equivalent of a full years’ growth for that tree. All of its effort to capture the energy of the sun, for the entirety of an orbit around that star, reduced to the fuel in your hand, and gone before your…

Tim Walz. Lil Jon. A big stadium. Everything is a spectacle. Even good guys know about Get Low. Everything has converged. — Read on youngna.substack.com/p/make-it-make-sense

“I OBVIOUSLY didn’t know it was going to snow,” she says, in a way that makes clear that what was obvious to each of us about it not snowing was not equivalent in any way. — Read on youngna.substack.com/p/eight-vignettes-about-power-and-misunderstanding

He is drawn to books that challenge the form itself in different ways, those that self-consciously or otherwise disrupt the more stately certainties of the great 19th-century novels. “The writers of the 20th century are ambushed by history,” Frank writes. “They exist in a world where the dynamic balance between self and society that the…

Casper Grathwohl, Oxford Languages president, said: “Brain rot speaks to one of the perceived dangers of virtual life, and how we are using our free time. It feels like a rightful next chapter in the cultural conversation about humanity and technology. It’s not surprising that so many voters embraced the term, endorsing it as our…