everythingness

wtf duck duck go is just bing??!

would it be facetious to say i preferred the pandemic?

The latest in our series of writers highlighting lesser-known films is a recommendation for a Korean classic available on YouTube

Scientists report unexpected brain activity in patient, 87, as he died from heart attack

About a new movie by Juho Kuosmanen set on a Russian train in 1996. Interview with the director (also in Dutch) here :

Why people are so stupid.

Het levenseinde verzachten met palliatieve sedatie is prima, maar iets anders dan zelfverkozen euthanasie. ‘terminale sedatie’

About the sounds made by wind, and wires. and other things. And not a mention of Alan whose name was not Mutton but Lamb.

About the sounds made by wind.

it’s when a particle and an anti-particle meet… 🤓

Carnaval gaat los, maar liever niet te massaal en zonder Randstedelingen. Vier feest in je eigen omgeving, ga lekker naar het café, maar mijd grote menigten, is het advies van zorgminister Ernst Kuipers.

The Duke of York is said to be funding his legal settlement with Virginia Giuffre using money from the Queen alongside proceeds from the sale of his luxury ski

Nieuw onderzoek biedt een verklaring voor de mysterieuze lichtstrepen die de Romeinen op klaarlichte dag zagen in het jaar 363. Waarschijnlijk ware...

Romeinse daglichtkometen waren onderdeel van 2.400 jaar durend spektakel De Volkskrant 16-02-2022

review from the new yorker

De documentaire Jeen-yuhs, die deze week op Netflix verschijnt, volgt Kanye West vanaf zijn 24ste tot zijn 44ste. We zien zijn pieken en ook zijn d...

so you could have an archetypal boring old fart’s tut tut reaction to this (oh they will never appreciate charles dickens or the great russian novels) or you could say, good on gen z for not allowing producers of long winded entertainments and self indulgent university lecturers that go on and on to waste their time ...

Justin E.H. Smith and Agnes Callard, What is philosophy? What does philosophy do, and what does it take to do it?

when you come and visit we will go and drink here, ok?

639 jaar John Cage: In Halberstadt klinkt een stuk van John Cage dat 639 jaar duurt. Om de paar jaar is er een wisseling van klank. Zaterdag verdween de ‘gis’, een eenzame, onopgemerkte noot.

The edge is not something to be shied away from, though it is formidable. Rather, regard the precipice with awe and rejoice in your proximity.

The second season of the hit HBO show is a thing of beauty—a stylized, heightened, art-directed fantasia of a dark suburbia where really bad things look really good.

Bamber Gascoigne, with his donnish appearance and patrician voice, was an unlikely candidate for television stardom. As the first quizmaster on University Chall

De man ging voor de spiegel staan en nam zichzelf op van top tot teen. Voor iemand van bijna 50 zag hij er goed uit, vond hijzelf. Hij draaide zich...

For Theodor Lessing, insight was attained through suffering, and knowledge was pain.

I have made, for reasons of survival, a commitment to the uncertain nature of the world. This is where my heart lies. I suspect it always has.

one of the things i do is collect things, in both the analogue and the digital realm. when i was an artist i could pretend that these were materials that i could use to make artworks with one day but what’s my excuse now? one thing i collect is pictures of people who have killed themselves. it is a particular genre of photography which you could write a book about but i don’t have time. there is a particular kind of picture that is beloved by editors of newspapers to accompany the story of someone’s suicide, they have to look happy, and if the dead person is a young woman she has to look beautiful and happy. how could this beautiful happy young woman kill themselves? she had everything to live for! but no one knows what it feels like to be a person in the world who is not yourself, and even if it is yourself you might not know.

i fucking loved this doco.