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@Culture_Crit Rome, because of all the layers of history piled one on top of the other. Go below street level and you're in the Baroque, then the Renaissance, then the Middle Ages, then the time of Julius Caesar and before that, the Etruscans. Beauty and history always intertwined.

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@jzux I noticed my short-term memory got way worse during the pandemic. I chalked it up to boredom and anxiety, but it hasn't really rebounded. Is it a kind of global PTSD? It happened to so many people.

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@Culture_Crit Seneca’s essay “On the Shortness of Life” was a complete revelation to me. “We are not given a short life, but we make it short by wasting it on activities that do not matter…Life is long if you know how to use it.”

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@Culture_Crit Strasbourg, France. Off-the-charts cathedral and more Michelin-starred restaurants than anywhere in Europe. Also, really friendly people and very walkable.

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@Culture_Crit Here's the version of St. Bartholomew in the Lateran by Pierre le Gross, c. 1710, piously displaying his knife and flayed skin.

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@Culture_Crit Always think about the old Penn Station when I go to Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome. Classical bath complex built under Diocletian and transformed into a church by Michelangelo. Same sense of sprawling interior volume. Penn Station was the closest the US got to the Pantheon.

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@creation247 @Culture_Crit Governments love to congratulate themselves over wind farms -- the bigger, the better. Can they really not see how hideous they are?

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@SoVeryBritish Ha! Well done. I once had a whole bunch of people honk at me for not going through a green light. Two of them huffily went around me and immediately got tickets from the policeman who was halting traffic (and whom they couldn’t see). Victory! 💯

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@fasc1nate The figure in the upper left was amazingly life-like. The cumulative effect must have been staggering -- and more than a little eerie...

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@ML_Philosophy Really, really paying attention to what other people say. But that kind of listening is very rare.

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@Culture_Crit Truly stupendous. Even more so on the interiors of the Gothic cathedrals, which seem to defy gravity. Here's Ely Cathedral (England), mid-14th century.

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@Culture_Crit Euston Station in London is always the most egregious example for me. 1960s urban "improvement" at its "best."

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@Culture_Crit Somebody should write a book about overlooked staircases in well-known buildings. Here's the one inside the SW tower at St. Paul's Cathedral, London (not visible to the public).

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@Culture_Crit One minute in the chapter house at Wells Cathedral (built in the mid-14th century) shows the enormity separating the modern era from the Middle Ages.

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@Culture_Crit The black & white photos of Gothic cathedrals during the World Wars are hauntingly beautiful. Here's Amiens (France) in 1918, with sand bags piled up around the choir stalls in case a bomb lands inside:

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@culturaltutor I've always loved apophasis: bringing up a subject by saying that you're not going to mention it. Cicero often addressed the Senate by saying, "And I'm not even going to mention the [lots of horrible things] that this person has done to Rome." Very effective, then and now.

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@Culture_Crit For northern Renaissance, I'd put in a vote for Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition altarpiece, painted c. 1435 and now in the Prado. Brilliant on every level!

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@archi_tradition Don't forget about Beauvais Cathedral -- it was basically the 13th-century version of a skyscraper!

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@Culture_Crit Gothic, no question. Here's Laon Cathedral, the finest of the early Gothic interiors from the mid-12th century.

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@fasc1nate From Wiki: "The red-green municipal council was forced to resign on 24 July, although shortly afterwards the municipal council re-elected a new council, largely identical to the previous one and renamed by the local press as the 'photocopy council'." They landed on their feet!

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@SoVeryBritish Sunday roast lunch at a restaurant or pub. Very, very few places do even a passable job.

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@culturaltutor The bronze athlete statues are so life-like when they retain their original imitation eyeballs. Rare and great survivals. Here's a great one from the Acropolis Museum in Athens (made c. 340-330 B.C.) wearing a laurel crown of victory.

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@Culture_Crit I love the angel's delicate touch of Teresa's crackling. garment. Always reminds me of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel.

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@Culture_Crit The scale is truly gargantuan. One of the greatest engineering feats in the world -- ever. People used to climb the top of the dome and peer over the edge of the oculus into the interior far below. Talk about terrifying!🫢

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@BarackObama @HGMedia @JonBatiste @suleikajaouad We need see art as fundamentally transformative and not just an activity for middle schoolers.

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@stats_feed People have a hard time conceptualizing the vast difference between a million and a billion. They just think it's a few zeroes, so analogies like this are a big help.

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@ML_Philosophy People constantly scrolling on their phones so as to avoid being alone with their own thoughts.

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@Culture_Crit Here's Exeter Cathedral in SW England, completed in the late 14th century and still the longest, uninterrupted vault in the world.

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@MerriamWebster I feel bad for Jeremy Strong getting roasted for a term that’s totally normal in acting circles. It’s really not a big deal.

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@ML_Philosophy The inability to project your faults onto someone else and thereby dodge responsibility. When you're single, you have to own up to everything, both the good and the bad.

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@Culture_Crit I love how Dalí was *so* avant-garde but also still firmly in the Renaissance tradition of the "memento mori." Great artists can only look forward by looking backward.

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@ML_Philosophy Genuine loyalty is rare, so cherish it when you get it.

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@fasc1nate Reminds me so much of the ceiling in the Palatine Chapel in Palermo (Sicily), made in the mid-12th century.

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@engineers_feed In the olden days, you would thread your headphone cords through there to keep them from getting snarled on things. And to keep your MP3 player or Discman safely inside your bag.

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@qikipedia And they’re all some nuanced version of “I heartily disapprove of you.”

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@CFunderburg "Flames, flames on the side of my face..." 🔥

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@hubermanlab Having at least 1 day per week completely off is really key here. It doesn't have to be Sunday. But when people try to "up" their productivity, they usually do it by working every single day of the week and the toll is too great. Way too easy to burn out.

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@dieworkwear The hand placement really isn’t helping. Looks like a last-minute fumble to cover his package before they went on the air.

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@AcademicChatter One of the few careers which is still a genuine meritocracy. Follow your passion! Because the cream always rises to the top!

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@DrZoeRSmith @AcademicChatter They should at least wait to ask for references until they've made a shortlist of semi-finalists or finalists. When people's applications get eliminated in the first round (as most do), the letters are just more wasted time.

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@culturaltutor I’ve always been partial to this copy — appropriately enough, it sits outside the Philosophy department at @Columbia

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@MerriamWebster "Ok" means "ok" "Ok." means "ok, but I'm not happy and you're going to hear about it later"

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@BarackObama In the Netherlands, all citizens are required to vote and they do it via an app on their phones. Wish we could do the same in the USA.

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@IntrovertProbss Don't forget: -- mistaking normal social events as threats to personal freedom -- reassuring people that I'm just quiet, not mad -- recharging my batteries at home for 3x the amount of time spent in public 🤣

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@the_transit_guy Not strictly “real,” but my favorite is the Tube-esque map of road networks during the Roman Empire. Love it!

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@archi_tradition Pro tip: get a ticket and climb the stairs up to the roof. The view of Milan is incredible and you see so much sculpture up close and in amazing detail!

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@susie_dent As opposed to the 21st-century "shothog": a fun member of a group who nevertheless manages to be in the loo every time it's his turn to buy a round.

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@engineers_feed Anything involving "cheerleading" or talking about how close-knit and friendly their "teams" are. The more employers say this, the less it's actually true. If companies are genuinely collegial, they don't have to keep stating it every 5 minutes. It will be obvious.

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@archi_tradition New Orleans, New Orleans, toujours New Orleans.

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@ZubyMusic Humans are hard-wired to pursue goals. The bigger, the better. If people don't have a mission, their mission defaults to social media, TV, and imaginary problems.

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@PhysInHistory Sheldon Cooper.

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@culturaltutor I think the best way to see the dome of St. Peter's is by climbing it. Shows the utter enormity of its scale and the genius of Michelangelo's engineering. Extra bonus: You get to test your Latin! ("...Et tibi dabo claves regni" = "...and I will give you the keys of heaven").

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@ZackBornstein That's pretty much a declaration of war. Like using the urinal right next to you when there are 25 empty ones available.

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@creation247 I work with home-schooled kids a lot and find that they're often *much* better socialized, especially when communicating with adults. I promise you that anyone trotting out this "home-schooled kids are backwards" trope has never actually spent time with ANY home-schooled kids.

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@callicrates_ Lived in a place like this for 2 years and it was mind-blowing. The best part? They all seemed genuinely confused about why they were all overweight and felt like crap. It's amazing how people can't see cause and effect in their own lives.

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@RobertGreene The more your master appreciates you and gets closer to you, the greater the danger of this. You have to be vigilant because one careless move can undo years of progress. Once people feel threatened, the shutters come down FAST.

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@fasc1nate Originally, there were plans to have the top of the spire serve as a docking station for blimps. Would have been so cool!

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@MarkHamill The first glorious appearance of Mrs. Chewbacca!

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@archi_tradition The interior of the Duomo in Monreale (Sicily). Every square inch covered in original 12th-century mosaics.

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@engineers_feed One of those physician-style body scales. Love sliding the weights back and forth, hearing them "clump" into place, and seeing the arm slowly pivot and come to rest.

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@Culture_Crit The best place to recapture Penn Station's vanished glory is the church of SM degli Angeli in Rome, originally built as a bathing complex in 283-296 AD and remodeled by Michelangelo in 1563-4. Similar dimensions, architectural vocabulary, and volumes of space.

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@rebelEducator No -- just the opposite. I work with a lot of homeschooled kids and many of them are MORE socially advanced than their peers, as well as more independent and creative.

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@Culture_Crit This is what artists *used* to do with ink.

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@jordanbpeterson @Harvard This could be the thing that finally drives poststructuralism from campuses forever!

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@SoVeryBritish Meanings of “no” 1. You’ve pushed me *WAY* past the breaking point and I doubt we’ll ever speak again

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@Architectolder And it has Michelangelo's Pietà. Talk about a win-win!

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@culturaltutor Another great set are the windows by Marc Chagall in the parish church of Tudeley in Kent, England. Blazing, luminous colors.

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@susie_dent Synonyms: nirvana, heaven, pure bliss.

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@Codie_Sanchez I've never understood this. And the people who do it the most always have good jobs and plenty of disposable income. PSA: I don't want to wake up an hour early to drive you to the airport to save you $30 -- especially when you're headed out on a $10,000 vacation. I'm good! 🤷

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@Culture_Crit Another great one is the Pont du Gard in France, a combination bridge-aqueduct built by the Romans in the 1st century AD.

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@jenheemstra Failure often means that you're pushing into new directions that will advance the field, but you can also become a lightning rod for other people's envy, territoriality, or laziness. Squeaky clean research that is universally praised doesn't push the envelope or the status quo.

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@Sachinettiyil For me, Washington Cathedral will always be the best in the US. It's where I fell in love with Gothic.

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@ML_Philosophy Because people (including those desperately looking for friends) are usually focused on what they can gain, not what they can *give*.

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@Culture_Crit Thanks! I'm headed there in a few weeks and can't wait!

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@Culture_Crit I've always loved the photo of Michelangelo's David during World War II -- far too heavy to move, so it was encased in brick to prevent potential bomb damage.

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@fasc1nate One of the best demonstrations of Roman engineering is the Pont du Gard in France, built in the 1st century AD. Two tiers of big arches with an aqueduct channel on top.

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@SoVeryBritish Cullen skink, even though I don't like it.

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@Culture_Crit My vote for the best in England will always be the medieval ruins at Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire. Most magical place on earth!

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@IntrovertProbss Friend: OK, it's three days later. Me: Thanks for your patience. We will now initiate the 2-week post-recovery hiatus, so please check back next month.

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@Culture_Crit Even more astounding is that the Empire State Building (shown here with the Chrysler Building in the background) was built in only 1 year and 45 days. A miracle of the modern world and a previously unthinkable world record -- all done so quickly.

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@PhysInHistory Marie Curie also said, “Nothing in life is to be feared — it is only to be understood.” I’ve always loved that quote!

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@StephenKing It's sadly ironic that the people who warned against playing records backwards (and thus unleashing Satan on the world) are the exact people brainwashing themselves with the evils of Fox News.

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@JeremyTate41 There's a reason that the trivium remained the basis of higher education all through the Middle Ages. For more than 1,000 years after the fall of Rome, the classical model remained intact and inviolate. It's one of the greatest examples ever of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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@Culture_Crit Definitely Middle Temple (London), designed by E. M. Barry in 1879. The sculpture of the woman with the sword is a personification of Justice.

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@archi_tradition Aachen is also home to the glorious Palatine Chapel, one of the gems of medieval architecture. Begun by Charlemagne around 792 AD and consecrated by Pope Leo III in 805.

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@IntrovertProbss Talk about a false binary! Going big *IS* going home, so I win both. No choice to be made.

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@JohnIsBuilding Audible. I used to look down on audiobooks but they've transformed all that time I spend in my car. Learning so much in there. My car has become my Rolling Temple of Learning (tm). 🚗

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@SoVeryBritish 1) McVitie’s milk chocolate 2) McVitie’s milk chocolate 3) McVitie’s milk chocolate There is nothing else.

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@Culture_Crit For better or for worse, it’s unlikely to happen without religion. For the majority of human history, the greatest artistic expressions have been in the name of some kind of supernatural, transcendental reality outside ourselves.

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@PottsJustin Wow. I've seen double-decker elevators before but quintuple-deckers would have been amazing. The mail chutes would have been awesome, too.

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@SoVeryBritish Real outrage is saved for the things that deserve it, like not bringing the water for tea to a proper boil.

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@culturaltutor Barlow's single-span roof at St. Pancras was also the inspiration for Alfred Waterhouse's fantastic ceiling at the Natural History Museum of London, begun in 1873.

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@JeremyTate41 Not to mention all the amazing, intricate details that can't be seen from the ground. Each one of these pinnacles is a miniature cathedral of its own.

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@lexfridman One of the biggest problems in US education is that students are taught to avoid failure at all costs. Making mistakes boldly -- and then really dissecting their causes and how to prevent them in the future -- is THE key to success.

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@Culture_Crit Always an easy choice for me: the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, built in 1242-48 to house the relic of the Crown of Thorns.

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@WeirdMedieval Spoiler alert: Humphrey Goldenbollocks was a late 11th-century porn star. Way ahead of his time.

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@ZackBornstein It's because too many people were sharing their passwords.

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@SoVeryBritish The key is that the “twists” are completely trivial but delivered with massive gravitas: “My secret is that I…[stage whisper] I cut up a little more onion and add a pinch of salt.” And then wait for the other person to drop dead in astonishment!

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@tferriss “The 4th Law of Thermodynamics states that the lower the client’s budget, the more demanding, cranky, and unreasonable they will be.” — Isaac Newton

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