Friday Links!
Leading off this week, a phenomenal piece of work: The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief.
An absolutely excellent read: The Black executioner: Medieval artists depicted bodies as vehicles for politics and hierarchy. Repeated enough, these roles began to appear natural
A heady title and hopefully not unbearable pressure: ‘New Einstein’ vows to find ‘source code of universe’ and change everything.
This is terrific: Shall we play a game? Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.
A fascinating read: ‘Lawrence is karma’: the gangster who became an icon of Modi’s India.
From Wally, and it seems like a solid idea: The one change that worked: I swapped doomscrolling for reading comic books. 100 years! Before sci-fi was everywhere, this pioneering magazine championed 'scientifiction'. In depth: AI doom warnings are getting louder. Are they realistic? Clever and accurate: boookmark alignment chart. An interesting read: Where Does Publishing’s A.I. Problem Leave Authors and Readers?
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