One of the smartest book covers of all time:
The Penguin Books rerun of the The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935) by the author Walter Benjamin.
Whoever at Penguin came up with this.. I salute you 🫡
I don’t know about you, but it’s apparently been a WILD day at my condo building. Trust me when I tell you that you are not prepared for this story arc.
Today I learned about the All Souls examination, which is reputed to be the hardest exam in the world.
To even be considered, you need to have a degree from, or be a current graduate student of Oxford.
Hundreds of people sit and only two people pass every year.
Attached is last year's general exam.
Before I saw it, I wondered, how hard could it be.
Well, it turns out…it's "Defend ghosting.", "Does a pope matter?", and "Is body language a language?" hard:
When a shadow catches the sun and breaks it into a million pieces.
These aren’t digital filters it’s the exact millisecond sunlight hits the rapid diffraction grid of a Black Jacobin’s wings, turning raw air into a stained-glass masterpiece.
📸 Christian Spencer