‘Davis’s skill is to notice the way feeling snags on the various contingencies which by their indifference to its clamour make it visible to itself: a cane, a rug, a furnace, a caterpillar, an old shirt, a plate of chilli.’
David Trotter on why Lydia Davis writes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"In 1987, the team found, each route had 2,034 birds on average. By 2017, that average had decreased by 304 birds per route, or 15 percent." 🌎🧪
Necati Tosuner için mezar taşı
canbahadir.substack.com/p/necati-tos...
Dans la Rome antique, il existait un usage social et affectif des larmes. Leur exubérance s'est perdue... Aujourd'hui, elles sont suspectes, et leur puissance émotive se doit d'être maîtrisée.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/jkE
In conflicts with indefinable battlefields, women's bodies are sites of militarization.
"Colouring sits comfortably alongside reading in sustaining focus and creating meaning in everyday life."
theconversation.com/adult-colour...
"Translation, like the modernist novel, is by necessity a self-conscious act, an attempt to bring fragments together in a whole that can never be completed."
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
I have books* where Picasso was quoted as saying Africa has no art and no culture, even though he and others built their careers and entire art movements using African art as "inspiration".
*Exhibit showing many African objects that he owned right next to artworks they "inspired" has quote too 😞
So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.
My heart breaks at the end of the Books section at the Post. So many brilliant people there, especially @roncharles.bsky.social, the most beloved book critic I know. I feel like I should write more about this, but I’m on deadline and trying to finish a freelance piece myself.
Scientists discover molecule in space that hints at origin of life
https://www.europesays.com/uk/731384/
Scientists have discovered the largest organic molecule containing sulfur — a key ingredient for life — ever identified…
“The modern attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word,” Rose Horowitch reports. “Now professors are finding that they can’t even get students—film students—to sit through movies”:
Bir çocuk, arkasında duran bir yetişkinle birlikte küçük bir traktörün direksiyonunda oturuyor. Çizim tarzındaki görselde, yetişkin çocuğu arkadan sararak yönlendiriyor; etrafta çitler ve yeşil bir alan görülüyor. Görsel, koruma, rehberlik ve birlikte hareket etme fikrini çağrıştırıyor.
#biamag | Korumanın paradoksu: Rekabetçi düzen çocukları nasıl köleleştiriyor?
✍️ Metin V. Bayrak, korumacı ebeveynlik pratiklerinin rekabetçi düzen içinde çocukları güçlendirmek yerine nasıl bağımlılaştırdığını anlattı.
bianet.org/yazi/koruman...
Wikipédia a aujourd'hui 25 ans. À l’heure des réseaux sociaux et des plateformes géantes, certains continuent de croire à un internet fait de coopération plutôt que de concurrence.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/UCW
Quand il fait très froid, tout semble se figer. Le mouvement ralentit, le bruit s’étouffe. Depuis toujours, cette sensation nourrit l’idée que le froid serait le contraire même de la vie.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/4hI
A chain of white bell shaped flowers hangs between big oval green foliage
Today’s flower 🌱 #1289
Lily of the valley
“The core value of the newsroom becomes interpretation, clarity, and emotional intelligence — not volume.”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/succ...
Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
www.huffpost.com/entry/cosmic...
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
The awesome Dr. Sarah Wayland, is writing another much-needed book and you can help. "The Forever Parenting Project
How can you support your adult with disabilities as you age?" Join a focus group to share your experiences and concerns.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
#parenting #disability #aging
Cumartesi İnsanları’ndan İshak Tepe yaşamını yitirdi
Kürt siyasetinin ve kültürel mücadelesinin öncü isimlerinden İshak Tepe, 32 yıl boyunca faili meçhul bir cinayette kaybettiği oğlu Ferhat Tepe için adalet aradı.
bianet.org/haber/cumart...
"But the growing wariness in academia of the impact of A.I. on learning (on top of older concerns about the distracting nature of social media apps) is troubling news for a country whose performance in reading comprehension is already in steep decline."
What if friendship were understood not just on an individual, personal level, but as something political – a radical practice capable of upending hierarchies and producing revolutionary social change?
Laura C. Forster and Joel White reflect on radical friendship and everyday solidarities.
Tech companies have long promised to deliver a golden age of human connection—but with AI companions, what’s actually unfolding is a digital age “more actively anti-social than the last,” @damonberes.com argues:
Dans son dernier récit, l’historienne Vanessa de Senarclens enquête sur une bibliothèque du XVIIIᵉ siècle, dont les 16 000 ouvrages dispersés à travers l’Europe révèlent une page d’histoire oubliée.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/dew
L’école n’est pas neutre. Pour certains adolescents, elle représente un stress constant, où l’incertitude de l’avenir se mêle à la pression quotidienne.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/shg
László Krasznahorkai's English-language reputation has been built through the work of his key translators, George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet and John Batki.
So let's praise them too!
