knowledge
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On the aesthetics of time.
What if we celebrated the accumulation of wisdom and experience in the people around us?
age, aging, art, beauty, beauty industry, Cara Jo O’Connell, Cara O’Connell, caretaking, elective brain surgery, elective lobotomy, experience, feminism, feminist, Free Falling into the Cosmos, horror novel, Jenn Shapland, knowledge, lobotomy, Luke Dittrich, Maui, memory loss, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Moana, Mona Awad, neurosurgery, personal growth, relationships, Rogue, skincare, staff art exhibition, Thin Skin, William Scoville, wisdom, wrinkles -
On fire myths and the origin of knowledge
EDIT 5/4/2018: a finished essay based on this research was published here. If you’re writing about conflicts between religious and scientific worldviews, there is absolutely no reason why you’d be forced to write about fire. But, c’mon… fire is cool. Eventually you probably would. While researching myths about the origin of fire, I realized that…
