To you too. Let us hope that reading still matters in 2025 as much as it needs to.

J. L. Borges on English YouTube video by Andrea Cirla

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And to you too.

Love this.

Beautiful.

Endsong YouTube video by The Cure - Topic

December
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Welcome back to Memory and Metacognition Updates Jonathan Firth's Memory & Metacognition Updates #85

This was my first (proper) Memory & Metacognition Updates post after the summer: firth.substack.com/p/welcome-ba...

🎨 Xiang Weiren

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio(聊齋志異), written by Pu Songling during the Qing Dynasty, is a collection of 491 supernatural tales featuring fox spirits, ghosts, and demons.
Pu's narratives show more compassion for non-human entities than humans and satirize social issues of his time.
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Study for Self-Portrait

Study for Self-Portrait www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/study-f...

The Sheepfold, Moonlight by Jean-François Millet 1856-60
Oil on Panel
(Walter Art Museum, Baltimore)

Not for me.

It’s fair to say that Picasso showed some early promise ~ here’s Picador, his first oil painting. at age 8 ■ his study of a torso, at age 10 ■ and, at age 14, a portrait of his mother

Early Picasso. Just incredible.

"The epistemological grounding of human knowledge is human operation as a living system."

—Humberto Maturana

'Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?'
The History of Distributed Cognition Project at Edinburgh University. www.hdc.ed.ac.uk/welcome-hdc

It all depends on the quality of the T-shirt.

Japanese shinhanga print depicting a group dancing with a full moon in the sky.

In Japan, Obon is a traditional Buddhist festival to remember and honor the spirits of ancestors held each summer, beginning today. It is believed that the spirits of the dead visit their living relatives during this time. Music, dancing and food are offered to entertain the...
#JapaneseFolklore
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Absolutely beautiful.

Love this. The blue and white are charming.

This book is cogsci.
Just not classical cognitivism.
Not what's become popular on EduSocialMedia.
It's enactivist cogsci.
A different view of cognition enacted in my classroom.
#UKEd #EduSky #SciTeachUK

Really enjoyed it. Plus the medal ceremony theme and the new Renault ad music.

The "Phoenix" Fountain pen for the revival of Wajima matsuzawakobo.com/phoenix_en/
By adding this masterpiece, which we create with all our heart and soul, to your fountain pen collection, you will be supporting the revival of the Wajima urushi industry.
#fountainpen #wajima

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (2nd version)

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (2nd version) www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/three-s...

#HasuiKawase (1883-1957)
Miyajima Shrine
#japanese #woodblock

#KawaseHasui (1883-1957)
Kamo River, Bosho 1934
#japanese #woodblock

The reception set created by Japanese urushi artist Gonroku Matsuda in 1932 was priced at 5 million yen in Japan, but after being purchased by a foreigner and sold in Marseille, it rose to 12.5 million yen, and eventually, the Guimet Museum acquired it for 50 million yen😅

That sounds great. Let me know how you found them.

He wrote two 'Japanese inspired' novels, his first two actually. Artist of the Floating World and A Pale View of the Hills. I recommend them to you.

Really interesting. True craftsmanship is valued.

Study for a portrait of John Edwards

Study for a portrait of John Edwards www.wikiart.org/en/francis-bacon/study-f...