James Baldwin – Brain Pickings

“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”

Source: James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society – Brain Pickings

I have more than 70 tabs open on my phone. Surely some of them must be interesting..
Allow me to share some #BrainPickings to ponder on a quiet #NewYearsDay

First up, an interesting study from August this year that documents historical patterns of bicycle sales and ownership worldwide since the 1960s. The authors also quantify the benefits of #Cycling for transport while noting it is unfortunately still marginal in many countries..

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00497-4

A querida @mariapopova, ou #TheMarginalian, embarcou no Mastodon.

Ou a beleza.

#brainpickings #beauty #twittermigration

Someone should do a spoof parody page of The Marginalian, and name it The Merovingian.

(The Marginalian, formerly known as Brainpickings)

www.themarginalian.org

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#TheMatrix #TheMatrix4 #TheMatrixResurrections #Brainpickings #Marginalian #Merovingian #SnackableContent / #fz_funny #fz_links

"Joy is not a function of a life free of friction and frustration, but a function of focus — an inner elevation by the fulcrum of choice. So often, it is a matter of attending to what Hermann Hesse called, as the world was about to come unworlded by its first global war, “the little joys”; so often, those are the slender threads of which we weave the lifeline that saves us."

#BrainPickings
https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/10/21/14-years-of-brain-pickings/