Arts & Humanities

ballet

A very popular traditional style of dance. It evokes great ephemeral beauty and dedication however the training environment can often be toxic --request

Vastu Shastra

traditional Indian system of architecture based on ancient texts that describe principles of design, layout, measurements, ground preparation, space arrangement, and spatial geometry --wikipedia

graphology

the analysis of handwriting with attempt to determine someone's personality traits --wikipedia

"All the world's a stage..."

...And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And one man in his time plays many parts --Shakespeare's "As You Like It"

historic recurrence (concept)

i.e. "history always repeats itself"

Nobel Minds 2022

The 2022 laureates in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and economic sciences talk to Zeinab Badawi and students in the audience at the Royal Palace in Stockholm about their discoveries and achievements, and how these might find a practical application --YouTube

illiteracy

a lack of the ability to read and write

Erich Fromm

German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist... associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory --wikipedia

the common good

refers to either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community --wikipedia

spoken word

a "catchall" term that includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including poetry readings, poetry slams, jazz poetry, and hip hop music, and can include comedy routines and prose monologues --wikipedia

Freudian slips

Classical examples involve slips of the tongue, but psychoanalytic theory also embraces misreadings, mishearings, mistypings, temporary forgettings, and the mislaying and losing of objects --wikipedia

John le Carré, literary works

a British author, best known for his espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) --wikipedia

Z-library

one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains over 11,179,413 books and 84,837,000 articles --request

Atlas of Emotions

The Dalai Lama imagined "a map of our emotions to develop a calm mind." He asked his longtime friend and renowned emotion scientist Dr. Paul Ekman to realize his idea...

Howl, by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg was one of the leading icons of the Beat movement, and "Howl" became one of the most widely read book of poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages --request