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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Miscellany
“Why is life a perpetual preparation for something that never happens?” W.B. Yeats asked in his journal, September 16, 1909.
A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732Lapham’s
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Medieval Wellness Tips
Whether the problem was an arrowhead, a beating, or being visible, Middle English manuscripts from the fifteenth century offered solutions. More
The World in Time
Jim Holt
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Jim Holt, author of When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. More