Highlights from the Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear Collections
Some of my favourite outfits from the fall 2015 RTW collections.
Further Reading
Karl Ove Knausgaard is traveling across America. Interview with John Ioannidis. Interview with Yasmina Reza. The selfish ribosome. In Balanchine’s beautiful forest. Art as an asset class. The idea of two sexes is simplistic. The problem with action movies today. In search of authenticity. And more.
Further Reading
Luciano Floridi on the philosophy of information. Remy Charlip and the problems of dance notation. Chris Ware interviewed by Jeet Heer. A speech by Karl Ove Knausgaard. 24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog. Tim Parks on the limits of satire. Arundhati Roy on the scourge of caste. And more.
Further Reading
John Kemp on the distinction between breakeven and shut-in prices for oil wells. Stunning aerial photos of NYC at night. Mathematicians have uncovered the four basic rules behind the ancient Japanese art of kirigami. An essay about Srinivasa Ramanujan. An interview with Michel Houellebecq. And more.
Further Reading
The girl with a pearl earring may not be wearing a pearl earring. How a commercial airplane is built. Longform Best of 2014. What happens when you strike a match. The Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal remembered. Why is everyone so busy? Britain’s war in Afghanistan. Books of the year. And more.
The Best Albums of 2014
A short list this year, but Aeriality by Anna Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir is one of the best contemporary classical albums I've heard in a long while.
The Best Books of 2014
A selection of the best books I read in 2014 in various categories, from best fiction and best non-fiction to most fashionable, most eye-opening and the best book about Wittgenstein that is(n't) about Wittgenstein.
Further Reading
A resistance checklist by Lebbeus Woods. The reason I'm so inefficient. The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Jean Tirole. Andrew Gelman & Eric Loken on the statistical crisis in science. The ubiquitous Tracy-Widom distribution. Kishtwar Kailash: road to basecamp. Why hipsters look alike. And more.
De Nieuwe Wildernis
Hard to believe, but this was filmed in The Netherlands!
Highlights from the Spring 2015 Ready-to-Wear Collections
Some of my favourite outfits from the Spring 2015 RTW collections.
Further Reading
JM Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz in conversation. Sand is rarer than you might think. The most detailed map yet of our place in the universe. Why walking helps us think. A Q&A with Karl Ove Knausgaard. Dreadnoughtus: a new dinosaur discovery. The lethal lure of Mont Blanc. And more.
Further Reading
What Would Krishna Do? Or Shiva? An interview with Philip Roth. The etymology of the different names of tea. America in decay. Profile of Shigeru Ban. The Iberian Peninsula by night as seen from ISS. History of the term scientist. Profile of Isadora Duncan from The New Yorker (1927). And more.