A Story For Tomorrow.

There is no right way to mediate by Yumi Sakugawa

MR: Why does South Indian food taste better when you eat it with your fingers?

From Tyler Cowen: I can think of three reasons. First, there is a placebo effect.  For the Westerner/outsider, eating with your fingers seems exotic.  For (many, not all) South Asians, eating with your fingers brings back memories of family and comfort foods. Second, your fingers are highly versatile and they are often the best implements […]

Why Did Picasso Prosper?

Ian Leslie suggests that Pablo Picasso’s success with Cubism was hardly inevitable, but rather the product of circumstance: First, there was a new kind of consumer: the industrial revolution had created a class of young, educated, affluent Parisians, who, keen to distinguish themselves from their more conventional elders, prided themselves on daring displays of taste. Second, new […]

6/18 Quote: Siddhārtha Gautama

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” -Siddhārtha Gautama (Buddha)