FYI #49
18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian, by Maria Popova. Latest life learning.. #18 ‘How you love, how you give, and how you suffer is just about the sum of who you are.’
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table, via Smithsonian Magazine.
What makes a good newsletter? A roundtable with five email critics, via One Thing
More than 30 000 new seed samples deposited in Svalbard Global Seed Vault, via the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Andrew Garfield’s Closet Picks, via the Criterion Collection
On Being Butthurt: Writers' notebooks, "privilege," lugubriousness, and more, by Elif Batuman
‘The bush calls us’: the defiant women who demanded a place on the walking track, by Ruby Ekkel, via the Conversation
Podcast listening highlights this week:
Lin-Manuel Miranda: Everything is Basically the School Play, on Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism, Text Privacy and AI, on On With Kara Swisher
Guillermo Del Toro on the new season of Ruthie’s Table 4
Archbishop of Canterbury: Faith, mental health, and the future of the Church, on Leading
Lauren Elkin & Octavia Bright: Scaffolding, via the London Review Bookshop podcast
Help, I Need a Critic!, via via the New Yorker’s Critics at Large