By Salvador Dalí

The smell of old books comes from lignin, a compound in paper that’s chemically similar to vanilla. As books age, lignin breaks down and releases vanillin, giving them that nostalgic, slightly sweet scent.

Started a substack. substack.com/@harrymiller35…

“Our Lily, Arum Lily” by Stefan Lorant, 1937.

Alexander the Great Refuses Water in the Desert - Tom Lovell, 1968

We broke every possible social contract for young people, unprecedented wealth transfer from young to old, devalued the currency, made home prices insane, education debt crazy and now for the lulz we're automating all the entry level white collar work. Just incredible

RIGHT NOW in 1944, this is the scene in Normandy. The liberation of France is underway #DDay

"the birds in the war zone make nests from the fiber optic cables left by the killer drones" is the kind of thing you'd expect as a throwaway line of background in a cyberpunk story, and yet

The guy who discovered radio waves

This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…

When asked why great Gothic cathedrals are no longer built, 19th-century poet Heinrich Heine explained: "The men of old times had convictions; we modern men have only opinions, and more than these are needed to raise cathedrals."

Carl Jung, "Few people know anything about the ancestral soul..."

Joseph Campbell, what a passage

if you’re ambitious, please read this poem

In 1919, Wittgenstein renounced his inheritance and became a gardener at a monastery in Hütteldorf, near Vienna. Around this time, leading intellectuals began to distance themselves from him, claiming he had gone mad and turned into a mystic.

The 16 year old that sailed around the world with his cat, 1965.

His pen was a hammer. And he swung it at everything.

"Arkensea" is a much cooler name than "outer space". An astronaut should be called an "arkenfarer".

The stray cats at the nearby 7-Eleven were basking in the sun, turning into a pile of cats lol