slide shows, videos, and other little things
The Paris Review has an interview with Alice Munro; I think from an older issue (because it doesn’t mention her 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature), but it popped up in my feed today, and I hadn’t seen it before. In any case, I enjoyed it so much that I have tweeted it twice and am now blogging about … Continue reading Alice Munro on Writing…
Just a mind-blowing, awe-inspiring reminder of how big the universe is, and how small and insignificant we are by comparison. You have to watch it to the very end to fully appreciate. FYI – this is the largest picture ever taken of our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a journey of about … Continue reading 40,000 light years in less than four minutes…
I filed the first draft of a big story yesterday, one that took months to work on and weeks to write. I celebrated by wandering through the Greek and Roman collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and making a brief detour into the renovated Oceanic gallery). Among many inspiring things, I saw this bust of a woman: It was … Continue reading Of microbes and marble quarries
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