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Life and Death in Kevin Morby’s Midwest | Pitchfork

“The greatest gift the Midwest gave me was being so blown away by the rest of the world,” he says. “Not having all the access to culture, it can create in a certain Midwesterner this lust for life. It only took time to realize the beauty within the Midwest itself.” Source: Life and Death in…

The People Want Cariño

Love this post from Steve Schlafman. I was talking about this feeling a couple weeks ago when I was at a conference with about 150 folks. You could just feel that the folks running the event put an enormous amount of care into the whole thing. I just felt (and trusted) i was in good…

Data Driven: Which Odyssey Translation Do You Prefer?

It turns out, the job of a translator is immensely difficult and we (readers) under-estimate how much latitude and art is in their work. Scrivvium (a history game company) did a cool data project to gauge readers preferences on the various Odyssey translations. Their methodology in and of itself is worth the read.  I took…