www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... The valuation of this car is more than £500k higher than its recent rebuild cost. So the “ship of Theseus” problem has apparently been solved.

Very aggressively set field.

A great riff on Stavanger’s own Pulpit Rock.

The unusually tall door in this small early 20thC building next to St. Giles-in-the-Fields church near Covent Garden was to allow for theatre scenery to be moved in and out at this former artists' studio.

Apparently this process starts with a “Potential Asteroid Impact Notification”, the acronym for which would be PAIN.

What a generous, compassionate project and book @horatioclare.bsky.social. I hope it helps raise awareness of (and funds for) the fine humanitarian work done by some of the institutions discussed, such as the RNLI.

Here's another "cooling" image which I hope might help during this spell of hot weather. This is "Alpine Love" by John Cooper from 1930. It is in the collection at Manchester City Art Gallery. #JohnCooper #EastLondonGroup

The etymology of the word cliché is very cool

Emil Schulthess - Oymyakon, Yakutia 1968

Here is St Martin of Tours cutting his Roman army cloak in half to share it with a beggar. It is on the gateway built in 1900 to connect the medieval tower of St Martin’s Church at Carfax to the new shop on the corner of Carfax. More information here: www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/city_...

Rainswept Rooftops by photographer Bill Brandt, 1933. #WorldHistory #History

“Order a Segway now! It’s only at Amazon”

Fascinating audio here of TSE - : tseliot.com/foundation/1...

Having just spent a few days with friends a little further down the coast in Rock, this view of "Appledore" by John Cooper from 1935 now seems remarkably "familiar" to me because of the similarity of terrain & the estuary. #JohnCooper #Appledore #EastLondonGroup #Devon

A thought prompted by a detail in this nice memoir: imagine signing up for “philosophy club” with a half-dozen schoolmates, and two of them being Joseph Raz and Peter Hacker.

Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead software engineer for the Apollo program, stands next to the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the Moon in 1969.

This is great fun from John Fuller, although anyone who has felt intimidated by the intellectual pyrotechnics in his poetry may smile at the irony...

Elizabeth Keith (1887-1956). 'The Forbidden City Wall, Peking', c.1920s

We live in an increasingly tribal world, and mine is blue / savoury / dogs / Aristotle. #philsky

Oracle bones: A tortoise plastron used in divination c.1200 BC. The writing records the diviner, their prediction, and (in an Enlightenment-avant-la-lettre twist) the actual outcome. Anyang, Henan province, China. #AncientBluesky

Alan Garner on pass agg uses for Attic Greek #AncientBluesky

Antony Gormley, “Body Buildings”, currently exhibiting at the Galleria Continua in Beijing. Intricate, thoughtful explorations of human form and the built landscape (and a lingering moment of respite from the minus 10 degree winter outside).

Hearing that Mr. Turner was much troubled at what I do in the office, and do give ill words to Sir W. Pen and others of me, I am much troubled in my mind, and so went to bed; not that I fear him at all, but the natural aptness I have to be troubled at any thing that crosses me.

Today's museum find: An 18th-century Japanese netsuke of an octopus, carved from ivory. Part of the Met collection, but not currently on display Image Attribution: The Met (Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891, Object 91.1.966) #octopus #MuseumFind #18thc 📜🗃️

NEWS: C20 Society has applied to list the first UK building by David Chipperfield Architects. Built 1987-89, their former studio and offices in Camden combines influences from Le Corbusian-style modernism and traditional Japanese architecture. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...

Brilliant short piece. The numbers matter, of course, but they have to be interrogated; and so much that is of value cannot be quantified.

He doesn’t get to ride the motorbike, or hit the high notes, but Ed Norton gives us the pathos of a man’s world beginning to fade away, and fairly steals the show. #ACompleteUnknown

We’re mourning the loss of the wonderful Michael Longley, who has died in Belfast aged 85. A Vice President of The Poetry Society, we were proud to publish him in our magazine The Poetry Review throughout his long career. Sharing below a 2014 poem which celebrated his long marriage to Edna Longley.

J.M. Kelly, on the ascendancy of Augustus: "On the surface, indeed, nothing had changed... But a silent, hardly visible transformation...had in fact taken place; because every part of the constitution now contained a new, tacit term, namely acquiescence in the will of an individual." #AncientBluesky

This piece includes the amazing fact that the CEO of #Bluesky, Jay Graber, has the Chinese name 蓝天 (lan2tian1), meaning “Blue Sky” *and that this is a coincidence* www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

These snows would have fallen about the same time the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Korematsu v. United States.

It’s all so — modest.

I was once lucky enough to attend a tour of this Lasdun masterpiece by the delightful @barnabascalder.bsky.social, who wrote an informative and beautifully illustrated piece for the 50th anniversary, available here: history.rcp.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

A characteristically broad and interesting list; although some readers may come away thinking that a moral philosopher is just a reflective, questioning, humane (etc.) member of a faculty of politics, literature, history, psychiatry (etc.) #PhilSky

Caravaggio - Narcissus 1597-1599 (Gallerie Nazionali d'Arte Antica)

Our Christmas Day poem is an extract from White Egrets by Derek Walcott.

Edward Hopper, Christmas card, collage on paper, 1928 whitney.org/collection/w...

Michelangelo’s ink drawing of “The Philosopher”, currently being exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. M was not in the business of debunking stereotypes… #PhilSky

@londonreview.bsky.social readers are so dapper these days.

The richness of Tolstoy’s moral psychology can be jaw-dropping. Here he is in a Nietzschean mode (from Anna Karenin, Penguin Classics ed., p.421). #PhilSky

L. S. Lowry ‘The Stone Circle’

'Nocturne: Grey and Gold - Snow in Chelsea' (1876) by James McNeill Whistler (Harvard Art Museums)

I enjoyed this extended interview with Hilary Putnam, which is full of charm and enthusiasm, as well as clear convictions. The Rorty anecdote at 36:45 onwards is a treat. youtu.be/U3gtfO-bcuQ?...

Pound’s ‘Cathay’ is something singular. Some C8th (and earlier) Chinese poems are cribbed into English by Japanese scholars for the benefit of an American, whose annotated versions are picked up by Pound and turned into… a translation? This is from Li Bai. #poetry

A wonderful record, and an elegantly framed argument.

Tired of seeing liberalism battered from the right? See it battered from the left instead! (As ever with Geuss, one can stand and admire the erudition irrespective of one’s political orientation.)

NEW "What we’re trying to do is to find the best history books created within the UK in the last year" British historian Diarmaid MacCulloch talks us through the shortlist of the 2024 Wolfson History Prize.

I would recommend Small Things Like These, which has all the rich texture of Claire Keegan’s book. This interview spotlights Cillian Murphy, whose quiet resolution as Bill Furlong is as arresting as the restrained menace of Emily Watson as Sister Mary.