The NYPD beekeeper vacuums up a swarm of bees on a hot dog stand in Times Square.
Medieval missionary discovering the point where heaven and earth meet, twentieth-century coloration of black-and-white engraving from The Atmosphere, by Camille Flammarion, 1888.
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“Where were you last night?” Yvonne asks Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, in Casablanca. “That’s so long ago, I don’t remember.” Her follow-up: “Will I see you tonight?” To which he replies, “I never make plans that far ahead.”
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Lapham’s
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The School Formerly Known as LeConte
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Jim Holt
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Jim Holt, author of When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. More