An Uncommonplace Book

[…] we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. I do...

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen...

We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mour...

Young America in Wall Street George Francis Train (1857)

Summa lacticiniorum Pantaleone of Confienza (1477)

New York Seventh Regiment photographed during New York City draft riots (July 1863)

Leaflet dropped from balloon flight sponsored by the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 18, 1887)