Historic Interest

I've got a holiday recipe from the late 1800s and a recipe for a shaker loaf that's probably older than that, but it would really please me to use a recipe that dates back 2000 years. I've checked the website at The British Museum,…

Quiet Mind

http://bookmania.me/post/125524048237/quiet-minds-cannot-be-perplexed-or-frightened-but…

Brave new world?

> In case you thought "Her" was sci-fi .... For Sympathetic Ear, More Chinese Turn to Smartphone Program http://t.co/9njxjNkisF — John Markoff (@markoff) July 31, 2015 [https://twitter.com/markoff/status/627130786966179848] I'm flabbergasted. I can't deny that it's coming, but…

Eliot's house

> Michael Bloomberg now owns George Eliot's house. @Rebeccamead_NYC [https://twitter.com/Rebeccamead_NYC] draws lessons for the ex-mayor from "Middlemarch." http://t.co/KXFj9gSVzd — TNY Culture Desk (@CultureDesk) July 29, 2015 [https://twitter.com/CultureDesk/status/626442090663165952] The article at the link contains this…

Sobremesa

gezeleig, sobremesa, utepils, Schnapsleiche, saudade, тоска, flâneur. From Oxford Dictionaries, seven more words worth knowing that don't have an exact equivalent in English [http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/07/7-foreign-words-you-need-to-know/]. There's some pretty useful words here, words that I'll actually use (not that tsundoku…

How Much?

http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/125160124816/chocolate-can-benefit-brain-function-and-memory The possible health benefits of chocolate have been celebrated here before. This report estimates how much chocolate you would need to eat each day to realize those benefits: 44 pounds.…

James Gillingham

> 1900: How a humble English cobbler stunned the medical world with high-tech prostheses. http://t.co/t4Fi9bqJ5S pic.twitter.com/BFywiBJ1FO [http://t.co/BFywiBJ1FO] — Mashable (@mashable) July 26, 2015 [https://twitter.com/mashable/status/625442131457523712] At least one of the images at the link has appeared here before…

Walking in Tbilisi

> "Beauty surrounds us / but usually we need to be walking / in a garden to know it." -Rumi. Hiking above Tbilisi, #Georgia. Photo/caption by C.B. [https://instagram.com/p/5hlmU9tSki/] A photo posted by Out of Eden (@outofedenwalk) on Jul 24, 2015 at 8:59am PDT…