art, and other
Mar. 18th, 2019 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishOn the importance of art: "What does art matter compared with something like science, that saves people's lives? Here’s the thing: There's a flaw in the question, because art saves lives, too."
This hung out in a tab on my phone for a couple of months before I closed it by accident, because I keep trying to come up with something more to say about it and failing. It resonates; it seems both self-evidently right and very much worth putting into words.
Neat, though without much commentary:
The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops: "Theo later tried, unsuccessfully, to have the ransom written off as a business expense for tax purposes."
Scott and Scurvy: "But in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost. The story of how this happened is a striking demonstration of the problem of induction, and how progress in one field of study can lead to unintended steps backward in another."
This hung out in a tab on my phone for a couple of months before I closed it by accident, because I keep trying to come up with something more to say about it and failing. It resonates; it seems both self-evidently right and very much worth putting into words.
Neat, though without much commentary:
The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops: "Theo later tried, unsuccessfully, to have the ransom written off as a business expense for tax purposes."
Scott and Scurvy: "But in the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost. The story of how this happened is a striking demonstration of the problem of induction, and how progress in one field of study can lead to unintended steps backward in another."