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Some filmmakers start in commercials, honing their chops in anticipation of making personal projects later. A select few go in the other direction, realizing their distinctive vision before fielding offers from companies who want a piece of that vision’s cultural currency. Open Culture, openculture.com — Read on www.openculture.com/2018/07/watch-commercials-david-lynch-directed-big-30-minute-compilation.html

This finding has pushed back systematic bone tool production by more than a million years and challenges previous assumptions about the technological capability of early hominins. Crafted from the bones of elephants and hippopotamuses, these tools showcase an advanced level of cognitive ability and craftsmanship, which was thought to have emerged much later in human…

Individuals with economically left-wing and culturally conservative attitudes tend to score highest on conspiracy thinking. People at this ideological location seem to long for both economic and cultural protection and bemoan a “lost paradise” where equalities had not yet been destroyed by “perfidious” processes of cultural modernization and economic neoliberalism. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/03/who-believes-in-conspiracy-theories.html

Semantic diffusion occurs when you have a word that is coined by a person or group, often with a pretty good definition, but then gets spread through the wider community in a way that weakens that definition. This weakening risks losing the definition entirely – and with it any usefulness to the term. — Read…

So much of education is teaching people context.  That is why it is hard, and also why it often does not seem like real learning. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/02/context-is-that-which-is-scarce-2.html

“I don’t think we ultimately know who we really are all the time. The task for all these different things, whether it’s acting, music, painting, ceramics, the main task is getting out of the way, letting the thing come through you. And it can be frightening sometimes. But sometimes it just has its way with…

Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t – whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi,” Thompson wrote. — Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/maga-america-suburban-donald-trump

In that particular frame, after potting that last red, how did O’Sullivan know that the cue ball would come back down the table that way and land precisely where he wanted it? Of course it was only obeying the laws of physics. But if you wanted to calculate the trajectory of a cue ball coming…

Hyperlinked chunks of text superimpose themselves on each other as you dig deeper into the essay — Read on thehtml.review/04/new-legibility/

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