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A daily dose of inspiration revolving around the arts and sciences. In a world focused on everything we can't do, be inspired by just a few of the things we've already done.
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These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1976. It stars Franklyn Ajaye, George Carlin, Professor Irwin Corey, Antonion Fargas, Jack Hehoe, Clarence Muse, Lorraine Gary, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Pryor, and Bill Duke.
We mark the anniversaries of the births of Spike Jonze, Jan de Bont, Robert Capa, Raghubir Singh, Swami Rama Tirtha, Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, Franz Liszt, an...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1984. It stars Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward, Barbara Hershey, Kim Stanley, Veronica Cartwright, and Levon Helm.
We mark the anniversaries of the births of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carrie Fisher, Domenichino, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Volker Halbach, and Magellan discovering the Strait that would bear his name...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1986. It stars Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, and Paul Newman
We mark the anniversaries of the births of Jupiter Hammon, Arthur Miller, Michael McKean, Norm Macdonald, Jesús “Chucho” Reyes Ferreira, and Henri de Saint-Simon.
Today's poem is by Jupiter Hammon.
Today's image is by...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1987. It starred Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance, Pruitt Taylor Vance, and Mickey Rourke.
We mark the anniversaries of the births of David Zucker, Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill, Günter Grass, and Shay Youngblood.
Today's poem is by Oscar Wilde, and is from, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".
Today's image is a caricature of Oscar...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1976, and was a documentary directed by Barbara Kopple.
We also mark the anniversary of the births of Penny Marshall, the poet Virgil, Mario Puzo, Mikhail Lermontov, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Keyshia Cole.
Today's image is a photograph of Harlan County's miners' homes. It is untitled and uncredited.
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1994 and starred Morgan Freeman, Clancy Brown, Jeffrey DeMunn, James Whitmore, and Tim Robbins.
We also mark the anniversary of the births of e.e. cummings, William Penn, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Luckmann, Masaoka Shiki, Ralph Lauren, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Peace Prize.
Today's image comes courtesy of The Boston Globe, and...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
"The worst part of having a wild imagination is that sometimes it works against you.”
Today's film came out in 1992. It starred Gerard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, and Fernando Rey, who as Christopher Columbus’s son Fernando says, "Of all the words my father wrote - and there were many - I remember these the most: "Noth...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
Today's film came out in 1982. It starred Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Bill Macy, and Peter O’Toole who as Alan Swann reflects, "People like me, we're targets. I'm blamed for a lot of things I had absolutely nothing to do with. On the other hand, because of who I am, I get away with m...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
"He who boasts of honesty tempts the world to test it.”
Today's film came out in 2006. It starred Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin, and Mark Wahlberg who as Staff Sergeant Sean Dignam say, "I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1997. It starred Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Billy Bob Thornton, Powers Boothe, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, and Jon Voight.
We also mark the anniversary of the births of Denis Villeneuve, Leo McCarey, Gore Vidal, Louis Aragon, Harvey Kurtzman, and the premiere episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Today's image comes co...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out ten years ago today, and starred Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Mackenzie Davis, and Donald Glover.
It's also the birthdays of Groucho Marx, Gandhi, Gilbert Simondon, Nat Turner, The Twilight Zone, and the telescop...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1993, and starred Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri.
You'll also hear about Clarence Darrow in a story you're guaranteed to have never heard before, before he defended a teacher's right to teach the truth in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Today's cover image comes courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, and is titled Winston and Clementine Churc...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out 20 years ago today. It starred Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Alan Tudyk.
Today's painting has a rather long title which is, The Piazza Navona, Rome, above the ruins of the Circus of Domitian, the Church of Sant Agnese to the right, Bernini's fountain in the center, from "Vedute di Roma", and was painted by Giovanni Batti...
These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's featured piece of art comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York. It is called The Relief Fund in Lancashire (for "Once a Week"), and was created by James McNeill Whistler. It is a proof for a wood engraving that was published July 26, 1862.
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