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Samuel Arbesman writes: When people think of knowledge, they generally think of two sorts of facts: facts that don’t change, like the height of Mount Everest or the capital of the United States, and facts that fluctuate constantly, like the temperature or the stock market close. But in between there is a third kind: facts…

Wow. A day in the life of New York City, filmed in a way that makes it look like a toybox. The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Over the weekend, I was praying the Psalms, and a line in Psalm 136 — the well-known lament of the Jewish exiles held captive “by the waters of Babylon” — made me pause in my prayers: How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? It made me think of cancer as a…

Here’s a discussion of a terrific Life magazine article from 1949, about a failed campaign in the small East Texas town of Whitney, to ban a bench that the town’s old coots sat on and watched the world go by. Excerpt: It came to the mayor of Whitney, Frank Basham, to appease “a delegation of…
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