Mary Wollstonecraft’s image was beamed onto the Palace of Westminster during Wednesday’s rush hour to raise money for another image – the first ever statue of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
Wollstonecraft Image Beamed onto Palace
Pink Matter
No doubt inspired by the musical stylings of Ricky Rozay (aka Rick Ross), Peter Foges set out to investigate the origins and present state of pink champagne.
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Yea, As If They Know What They’re Doing
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Metaphorical Departure
We all spend way too much time in airports this time of year, but Brad Leithauser searched for a metaphor about his journeys through BWI. As he writes for The New Yorker, “There was a piquant pleasure on the night when I first put these two experiences—morning churchgoing, evening airport-going—side by side. I’d been idly and only semi-consciously asking myself what these nocturnal intervals at B.W.I. reminded me of, and now, suddenly, I’d located my metaphor.”
I Love You
There are an estimated 1,025,109.8 words in the English language. Why, then, do we return to the same three over and over?
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The President’s Summer
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“I wanted to write about the feeling of life. Not life as an intellectual process, or a concept, but as a feeling.”
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STEM for Dogs
Even dogs are learning STEM now. Check out this rigorous program from Rollover Academy at McSweeney’s.
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“It is difficult to make a living”
“There is a possibility of your having a decent attitude toward people and work. That alone may make a man of you.” Wise words from Sherwood Anderson.
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That was us! The projection was organised by Mary on the Green, maryonthegreen.org. Supporters of Wollstonecraft, or indeed the insatiably curious, are welcome to contact me for further information.