Culture
On art, music, and beauty.
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The Best of Billions: 8 billion humans now, 9 billion in the stone age
Why is paleolithic cave art so good? The artistic standard of the painting in Chauvet, created 35,000 years ago, is outstanding. My preferred explanation is…
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Chauvet Virtual Tour: The next best thing to visiting the cave
The French National Museum of Archeology has a good virtual tour of the Chauvet cave here. They also have a good gallery of the cave’s…
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Avoiding the Paleolithic: Why is there no Netflix show set in the stone age?
Why are there no movies, TV series or even novels set in the paleolithic? After all, it’s the epoch that made us who we are,…
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Do Composers Die Young? Maybe
When Mozart was my age, he was dead for five years already. He had gone from composing to decomposing. He wasn’t the only composer to…
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A Thin Film of Inertia: We can pierce it, with a little effort
The world is covered with a thin film of inertia. Maybe it is created by entropy, or human nature, or a magic yet-understood, or all…
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The Enemy is Blandness
Life, if you’re not careful, can be bland. Modern buildings, food, clothes, interior design, cars: They’re all very convenient, very safe and very bland. And…
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