December 2011
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Why women need fat →
“Evolution shows that women’s dieting beliefs aren’t just unrealistic — they’re unnatural. An expert explains”
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George Whitman, American dean of Paris literary... →
NexNote: Au revoir, monsieur Whitman.
“Living by a motto taken from Yeats — “Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise” — Whitman helped out bohemian souls in return for them lending a hand in the shop or cooking supper. Hundreds left behind handwritten notes telling their life story.”
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Why Skyrim Is Horrible for the Economy →
“However, it’s not all bad news. While Skyrim might be crushing real world productivity, in Tamriel, I am being incredibly productive. I own several homes, participate in countless transactions with merchants worth thousands of gold pieces every day. I manufacture products for sale in local markets and generally contribute to Skyrim’s society. I spend hours helping local governments...
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Indies’ world view is Pinoy view →
“A recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines in 1992, Deocampo headed the Mowelfund Film Institute, which trained some of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the new generation. He also taught Film at the University of the Philippines and De La Salle and Ateneo de Manila Universities.”
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How to Accomplish More by Doing Less →
“It’s called the law of diminishing returns. Bill’s average over 10 hours is 60 percent of his capacity, which means he effectively delivers 6 hours of work.”
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The Arts of Occupation →
“The N17 projection is perhaps the most photogenic example so far of the ways in which artists affiliated with OWS have transformed and contested urban space in architectural, visual and symbolic terms. As the movement enters its post-Zuccotti phase, now is a good time to assess the range of methods, styles and tactics adopted by its artists, as well as to probe some of the tensions...
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“Education is really the long-term solution to other social issues.”
– Dan King, Ojibwe (via nativeskins)
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Clive Thompson on the Future of Printed Books →
“Will the ebook kill off the print book?”
Every time I hear that question, I think about the “paperless office.” Back in the ’80s, the rise of word processors and e-mail convinced a lot of people that paper would vanish. Why print anything when you could simply squirt documents around electronically?”
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Looking after the cultural life of a nation →
“The wounds inflicted by James Fallows’ essay “A Damaged Culture: A New Philippines?” run deep. The controversial piece, published in 1987, tagged the country’s post-Marcos funk as a cultural glitch. “If the problem in the Philippines does not lie in the people themselves, what is the problem? I think it is cultural, and that it should be thought of as a failure of...
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Why Is Art So Damned Expensive? →
“A pile of stools for $575,000. A cabinet full of surgical instruments for a cool $2.5 million. The global economy’s in a tailspin, but among the world’s elite collectors, works are selling for record prices.”
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You Say You Want a Devolution? →
“For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new.”
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Who says selling sex is degrading? →
NexNote: My point exactly. Wow, I had the same sentiment a decade ago! Someone please buy me this book for Christmas!
“Catherine Hakim’s Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital could quite easily have been titled Everything We Sort of Already Knew About Sex and Didn’t Need a 250-Page Book to Reinforce.”
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Academy bats for films based on Filipino... →
NexNote: SA WAKAS! Palakpakan!
““The MMFF committee has already approved this, but we are still looking for funding,” Martinez told Inquirer Entertainment, adding that the National Center for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has agreed to hand out film grants, but he’s still awaiting response from the Quezon City Film Development Council.”
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Warning: High Frequency →
“… here I am… standing bathed in the radiation from the cell phone panels on the parking garage next door. I am also bathed in the radiation from the neighbors’ wi-fi downstairs. The waves are everywhere, from public libraries to Amtrak trains to restaurants and bars and even public squares like Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan, where the Wall Street occupiers...
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Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not... →
NexNote: I still remember Anselm Kiefer’s fantastic exhibit at the Guggenheim Bilbao. So excited to watch the documentary on his work!
“Celebrated German artist reflects on his work before opening of his biggest UK show, at White Cube gallery in London”
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Rats Free Trapped Friends, Hint at Universal... →
“With a few liberating swipes of their paws, a group of research rats freed trapped labmates and raised anew the possibility that empathy isn’t unique to humans and a few extra-smart animals, but is widespread in the animal world.”
NexNote: Palakpakan! Galing, galing!
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THE DESIGNER WHO MAKES BUILDINGS →
“He makes pavilions from seeds and breathes life into buses. Bryan Appleyard meets Thomas Heatherwick, whose quirky style points to a new kind of architecture …”
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Polar bear 'cannibalism' pictured →
“Polar bears normally hunt seals but if these are not available, the big predators will seek out other sources of food - even their own kind.”
NexNote: Depressing.
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LA and Occupy LA Agree: It's Time to End Corporate... →
NexNote: FINALLY! I held an ACLE back in college on the corporation and how it’s a “dysfunctional person.” Thank you Occupy!
“What’s the issue that unites the occupiers and the city they’re occupying? Getting corporate money out of politics.”
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How to Make Love Like a Caveman →
“For instance, why is monogamy so difficult? According to Ryan, we are biologically programmed against it. It was not until the advent of agriculture that man developed a notion of private property, and had reason to feel jealous of a promiscuous mate. Culture invented monogamy, and with it marriage, cheating, and a sense of shame that surrounds our sexual selves.”
NexNote:...
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Threatened species need farmland →
“Several threatened species in the developing world are completely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, say scientists.”
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Veteran titlist is Mr. Gay World bet →
NexNote: Carl!
“Rosadiño told Inquirer Entertainment that he discovered his true sexuality as an Art Studies junior at the University of the Philippines, when he welcomed a suitor from a different school.”
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The Islamic Scholar Who Gave Us Modern Philosophy →
“In the year 900, by far the most robust and impressive philosophical tradition was found not in Europe, but in the Middle East. Islamic scholars there had embarked on a wholesale program to recover the traditions of Greek philosophy (particularly the works of Aristotle), translate them into Arabic, and rethink their message in light of the newly revealed teachings of the Qur’an. Anyone...
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When size matters too much →
“A young gay man’s phallic fixation has driven him to risky promiscuity — and he wants to understand why”
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Why we invented monsters →
“How our primate ancestors shaped our obsession with terrifying creatures”
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Monarch of muscle →
“Victorian strongman Eugen Sandow was thought to possess the perfect male body. Like Oscar Wilde, he is essential to understanding modern manhood”
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“People outside UP can’t understand activism in UP because they are not part of...”
– Bernadas, 2011 (via vanilla18princess)
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The Power of Cosmic Thinking →
“Abrams and Primack write: “We and our children may be the most significant generations of humans that have yet lived,” which means we carry a far greater burden of responsibility than any previous generation.”
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Rick Steves: Make Marijuana Legal →
“Nex Beñas of Akei Philippines attended the 2011 International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Los Angeles, California and emailed this video of renowned personality, speaker, and author, Rick Steves and his argument on marijuana legalization.”