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Cabinet
Here is a sampling of the off-beat stories that one finds in the quarterly, Brooklyn-based Cabinet magazine. The philosopher Slavoj Žižek has written, “Cabinet is my kind of magazine; ferociously intelligent, ridiculously funny, absurdly innovative, rapaciously curious. Continue reading
Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
Tweet The ancient Maya did not build their great cities on coastlines but inland. This is partially why archaeologists have focused on their in-land habits. It is the Mayan glyphs which have been so central in the study of this … Continue reading
Dead Alive at MAD
Tweet For centuries man has gathered materials from nature to evoke the spirit world. In Western literature perhaps the most famous is the concoction created by the three witches in Macbeth, Act V, Scene I in which they chant: Fillet … Continue reading
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Pictorial Webster’s – A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
A dictionary is a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information explaining their meaning. Dictionaries, in the Western tradition, have existed since the 1st century AD, when Greeks set about recording the meaning of their words. The first purely English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabetical (1604), containing some 3,000 words. In 1746-47, Samuel Johnson compiled the first comprehensive English dictionary which included 43,500 words. Noah Webster began the task of writing the first American English Dictionary which focused on the differences between European English and New World English, such as the spellings of colour and color. Continue reading
