Reads tagged with “history”

When Babbage and Dickens Waged a War on Noise

How the father of the computer enlisted the greatest Victorian novelist in ridding the streets of sound.

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Natural Histories: 500 Years of Rare Scientific Illustrations from the American Museum of Natural History Archives

A lavish celebration of the intersection of art, science, and technology.

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Susan Sontag’s List of Beliefs at Age 14 vs. Age 24

“The only difference between human beings is intelligence.”

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Marilyn Monroe’s Turkey Recipe

How to cook a bird like Norma Jeane.

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The Best Science Books of 2012

From cosmology to cosmic love, or what your biological clock has to do with diagraming evolution.

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The Best Design Books of 2012

From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.

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Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches

Rare sketches, photographs, doodles, and other glimpses of the beloved Muppeteer’s mind and creative process.

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Bruno Munari on Design as a Bridge Between Art and Life

“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

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Geometrical Psychology: Mathematical Models of Consciousness by the 19th-Century Psychologist Benjamin Betts

“Imagination receives the stream of Consciousness, and holds apart and compares the different experiences.”

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Eleanor Roosevelt on Happiness, Conformity, and Integrity

“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”

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Reads tagged with “history”

How the father of the computer enlisted the greatest Victorian novelist in ridding the streets of sound.

A lavish celebration of the intersection of art, science, and technology.

“The only difference between human beings is intelligence.”

How to cook a bird like Norma Jeane.

From cosmology to cosmic love, or what your biological clock has to do with diagraming evolution.

From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.

Rare sketches, photographs, doodles, and other glimpses of the beloved Muppeteer’s mind and creative process.

“The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.”

“Imagination receives the stream of Consciousness, and holds apart and compares the different experiences.”

“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”

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