Wittgenstein’s newly translated notebooks, covering God, integrity and sex
On July 4, 1916, the twenty-seven-year-old Ludwig Wittgenstein, picked up his notebook and wrote down the idea that the meaning of the world does not lie within it but outside of it.
Trinny Woodall: I became addicted to cocaine because I had a total lack of confidence. I was very insecure and unappealing. I finally stopped because I didn’t recognise myself. I was so detached from life; I had no feelings. That is a scary thing.
The Times 11 June 2022
I don’t do Botox to look young. I do it not to look tired. If I look in the mirror and feel awake and alert, I will be awake and alert. If I look exhausted, I feel it. I want to feel full of energy – that’s all it is.
Met een revolutionaire nieuwe behandeling kwam hij van zijn jarenlange dwangneuroses af
Neurochirurgie: Met een druk op de knop kwam Bart de Beurs af van de angststoornis waarmee hij jarenlang kampte. Daarna begon de zoektocht: wie was hij nu?
Medewerker slachtbedrijf Vion overleden na aanval van stier in Tilburg: ‘Het is vreselijk’
TILBURG - Een medewerker van slachtbedrijf Vion aan de Enschotsestraat in Tilburg is vrijdagochtend overleden nadat hij werd aangevallen door een stier. Een woordvoerder van het slachtbedrijf laat weten dat het bedrijf meeleeft met de familie en nabestaanden van het slachtoffer. „Het is vreselijk.”
Review of An Immense World by Ed Yong — The Times (archived 10-6-2022)
Birds have four colour receptors, rather than three, giving them access to a vast array of colour combinations unknown to us. So do some humans. Almost 50,000 people in the UK are “tetrachromats”
Matthew McConaughey was playing the bongos naked and stoned at 2.40am at his home in Austin. By his telling, he was “winding down” after a 48-hour bender following a triumphant victory by his beloved Texas Longhorns — “it was time to smoke a bowl . . . time to stand over my drum set and follow the rhythm of the blues” — when two policemen rudely burst in. He refused to allow them to protect his modesty with a blanket: “I’m not putting shit on! My naked ass is proof I was mindin’ my own business!”
Tehching Hsieh's one year performances required some serious commitment. My personal favourite is No Art Piece 1986 where he abstained from making or looking at any art for one year.
from July 1, 1985, to July 1, 1986, abstain from making or looking at any art (No Art Piece).
if i was still teaching art i would make this a requirement for every student
Gwyneth Paltrow’s shaman Durek Verrett casts his spell over Norwegian princess.
ok so his real name is Derek. one day he woke up and said, i'll change my name to Durek but no one said, well that's naff. people will think of condoms.
Nicolien Mizee: ‘Dan denk ik: dat komt dus nóóit meer goed’
Schrijver Nicolien Mizee: In haar ‘faxenboeken’, die uitgroeiden tot een culthit, schrijft Nicolien Mizee over haar leven, haar familie, haar depressies. „Mijn leven voelde als een groot, prutterig drama dat me overkwam.”