• The importance of stupidity in scientific research – At some point, the conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made her feel stupid. After a couple of years of feeling stupid every day, she was ready to do something else.

  I had thought of her as one of the brightest people I knew and her subsequent career supports that view. What she said bothered me. I kept thinking about it; sometime the next day, it hit me. Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it. So used to it, in fact, that I actively seek out new opportunities to feel stupid. I wouldn't know what to do without that feeling. I even think it's supposed to be this way. Let me explain.

• Art Spiegelman wants a blood test – “Breakdowns” offers a trek through Spiegelman’s early work and development as a comic artist, revealing what he grappled with before "Maus". At the lecture, Spiegelman presented slides from the book–rough, silly, strange and sometimes simple images that exemplified his mantra: “comics should be whatever you want them to be.”
• 20 Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets – via suviko
• Ameriikassa The Snuggie -lohdutuslakana käy hyvin kaupaksi (NYT Mag / Consumed) – The idea seems to be that if the product is goofy, it ought to be pitched in the most ridiculous manner imaginable. Don’t turn into camp; create camp. The upshot is something like the Pet Rock of the Depression 2.0 era […] while watching one particularly merciless parody, I was startled when YouTube served up a pop-over ad link for the actual Snuggie — a weird case of a brand sponsoring its own satirist.
• Great and Telling Tales by Timothy Dickinson (video) – animoituja lyhyitä historiakatsauksia History Channelilta

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