the cameraman’s revenge: a 1912 stop-motion film featuring taxidermied insects by Ladislas Starevich—see previously
collateral damage: Trump’s seizure of Venezuela has deliberate knock-off effects for Cuba
the monkey’s paw curls: prediction markets and betting on everything
a spirit of dialogue: the World Economic Forum begins its summit in Davos (previously) in moment of geoeconomic warfare
il tormento di sant’antonio: an examination of Michaelangelo’s juvenilia, the painting (more on the subject) not attributed to the artist for half a millennium
bic cristal: the flagship product of the French sundry firm turned seventy-five—see previously
mercator projection: famed Flemish cartographer believed that there was a magnetic mountain, Rupes Nigra, at the North Pole, accounting why compasses point towards the arctic—see also
snow crash: Facebook quietly discontinues the Metaverse
vanity project: Trump has formed an intergovernmental agency to oversee reconstruction in Gaza called the Board of Peace as an alt-UN with billion dollar membership dues—see previously here and here
how now, brown cow: back-scratching bovine causes animal behaviourist to reassess their intellect—see also
