Sacred Treasure
- Iintriguing: obviously guesstimates but a fascinating exercise. How much did Paul’s Missionary Journeys cost? (HT Chris Howles)
- Speaking trade languages when working cross-culturally?
- Why Tolkien hated Frank Herbert’s Dune
- Ian Paul offers a good overview of why there is growing consensus that Jesus regularly taught in Greek
- Speaking of language, my friend and fmr boss Paul Windsor has some Maori language lessons for us.
- The 21 is a remarkable short film about the 21 Coptic Martyrs beheaded by ISIS in 2015. Here’s a short trailer:
Topical Treasure
- Matt Campau is a digital artist who applies his genius to warn of the dangers of social media in his “Anti-Social” project.
- Why the BBC was uneasy about keeping George Orwell on their staff…
- Timothy Snyder is one of my heroes: the Yale historian (until v recently) of the twentieth century dictators is a fearless pursuer of truth. Here John Lithgow reads his 20 lessons on Tyranny
Quirky Treasure
- Love this: drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and see where it will end up… (HT Chris Howles)
- True relative size of landmasses
- Really dumb: Amazon reviews that are better than the product
- Some examples of not so concealed passive aggression
- Some of the most photographed places in the world can look very different if you just change perspective.
- Do you know about the great Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown? He treated landscape as language. Clearly a man of his time but a genius nonetheless.