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Artist Selva Aparicio carved a carpet by hand into an oak floor
The carpet that never needs vacuuming. A carpet carved by hand into an oak floor. Artist: Selva Aparicio
Books · People · Humour
Brodsky on addiction to scrolling reels and TikToks, in his Nobel lecture:
One who writes a poem writes it above all because verse is a colossal accelerator of consciousness, of thinking, of one's sense of the universe. Having experienced this acceleration once, a person is no longer capable of abandoning the chance of repeating this experience; he falls into dependence
NB! · Humour
"Doctor, what's wrong with me?" "I fear it is clay"
Cinema · Humour
Reportedly, women played most of the Riders of Rohan in “The Lord of the Rings”
It is said that most of the Riders of Rohan in the filming of The Lord of the Rings were played by women with glued-on beards and moustaches, riding their own horses. It follows that, had Éowyn and Merry not slain the Witch-king of Angmar, any rank-and-
NB! · London · Society · People · Humour
As Jacob Rees-Mogg Demonstrates, the British Parliament Is a Place Not Only for Debate but for the Afternoon Nap
Books · Observations · Science · Humour
Trepanation in the practice of the 16th-century Spanish physician Franciscus Arceus
Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful medicine of the past. What bliss to live in the twentieth century. And, in part, the twenty-first. Trepanation by the sixteenth-century Spanish physician Francisco Arceo
NB! · Humour
Bring Us Some Cream, James Andrews and Me
NB! · Monarchies · Pop Culture · Humour
His Highness Is No Virtuoso, but One Might Say the Prince Is One Letter Away from a Legendary Guitarist
NB! · Museums · Mores · Humour
A Basin for Washing Your Eyes After Everything You Have Seen on the Internet, Fifteenth Century
Books · Mores · Education · Humour
How the Lacedaemonians showed children a drunken serf to instil disgust for drunkenness
Advice on How to Keep the Young from the Temptation of Drunkenness, from an Encyclopaedia of 1597. The Lacedaemonians, that is, the Spartans, would parade a drunken serf before their children, so as to instil in them an utter loathing of drunkenness as the vilest of all passions
Books · Humour
Vera Inber’s poem “Sdayetsya kvartira” about a snail and the would-be tenants of her flat
Once a Snail put out An advert: "To let: flat with a gate Of its own. Peace, quiet. Kitchen garden And garage. Water. Lighting. Ground floor." Scarcely had the notice Appeared in the wood When at once there began A stir all around. Many answered. From his lookout