People & culture
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A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanti…
[ad_1] No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading. We use it to express mild surprise that one person could use both their left and right hemispheres equally well. But in Leonardo’s day, people did not think of…
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H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing Is a Sublime Take on Dicken…
[ad_1] When you find out that your favorite modern novelist has written her own new fantasy take on your all-time favorite novel, at first you feel elated. Then you feel nervous. (Or at least I do.) Of course she’ll nail it—right? She’s a wonderful writer—but it’s a formidable task … Turns out I needn’t have…
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Left alone to find one another
[ad_1] LEBANON 2011. I’d moved to Lebanon to study, after the Israelis had banned me from re-entering Palestine. A friend had already arrived a few weeks before me. Hearing of an apartment for rent in Ashrafiyyeh, she went to check it out. The conversation was, as she later reported, absolutely lovely: after handshakes, the landlord…
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Critter Kitchen Serves Up Whimsical Dishes and Fun
[ad_1] My favorite game this year is absolutely Critter Kitchen from Lucky Duck Games. Designed by Alex Cutler and Peter C. Hayward, with the incomparable art of Sandara Tang, Critter Kitchen, which funded at the end of 2023 and has hit the shops this year, challenges up to five players to send your chefs out…
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22 Magical & Cozy Winter Books From Around The World
[ad_1] *Disclaimer: Some links on AsianaCircus.com are affiliate links. If you click through and make a purchase we may receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you). Thank you for your support, you’re awesome! =) 24. Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews Holiday Romance Novel, New York Christmas Story, Family Ties…
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Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Criti…
[ad_1] Though he died too young, Carl Sagan left behind an impressively large body of work, including more than 600 scientific papers and more than 20 books. Of those books, none is more widely known to the public — or, still, more widely read by the public — than Cosmos, accompanied as it was by…
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The 100-year-old books salvaged from Venice’s floods
[ad_1] Wearing rubber boots, Zelano waded from the train station through Strada Nova, which was still about 40cm (1ft 3in) underwater. She went to the house of a friend of a friend. The tide had retreated by the time she got there. “All sorts of objects, pieces of furniture, chairs, were piled up, like trash,…
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Surviving fascist solidarity | Eurozine
[ad_1] Ana Teixeira Pinto: I feel like everybody is writing the same article these days. The argument goes like this: the Left has lost the plot by choosing to fight cultural wars instead of economic ones. ‘Divisive issues’ alienated the working class, which, no longer feeling at home in movements taken over by the ‘woke’…
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Wirt, Greg, Beatrice, And The Dog Feature In Mondo’s First O…
[ad_1] Mondo has revealed the first officially licensed collectibles based on the beloved characters from creator Patrick McHale’s Cartoon Network series Over the Garden Wall. Available exclusively on MondoShop.com this month, the figure set is the latest addition to the brand’s ever-growing collectibles line, Mondo Squads. Bringing the show’s fantastical elements to life with its…
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Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora & Fauna: The Beaut…
[ad_1] If you follow the ongoing beef many popular scientists have with philosophy, you’d be forgiven for thinking the two disciplines have nothing to say to each other. That’s a sadly false impression, though they have become almost entirely separate professional institutions. But during the first, say, 200 years of modern science, scientists were “natural…