What I saw on the web on 2025.5.18

[reblogarythm]

1. Myths of "the Renaissance"
   by Ada Palmer speaking to Tim O'Neill
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1ksVVeRWI
   a wonderful and wide-ranging conversation very different from the one i linked to two days ago
   via checking to see what she'd done on youtube recently
   
   
2. I ask my students every week to write 10 observations of the actual world. It’s very hard for them.
   by Marie Howe
   https://www.tumblr.com/artemis-howl/726643994643382272/tinyghostsi-want-you-to-do-this-with-me-for-one
   sounds like an excellent exercise
   via discord
   
   
3. big rock candy mountain
   by Baby Gramps
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awSI01AqnS0
   that would be a thing to do to the inventor of toil, yes
   via remembering it
   
   
4. Inventing the Renaissance: A Book Discussion with Ada Palmer
   by Ada Palmer, surprisingly enough
   https://graham.uchicago.edu/event/inventing-the-renaissance-a-book-discussion-with-ada-palmer/
   yet another conversation, but one that hasn't happened yet!
   via discord