Arts & Humanities - News, Articles, Books, Photo-Art, and Videos.
CURIOUSMINDS
A weekly serving of great articles we curate, and original content we produce. So, all you have to do is pick, read, watch and listen. |
|
|
Stories from Around the World that Affect Us |
|
|
Netanyahu attacks Palestinian recognition as dozens walk out of UN speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attacked the recognition of a Palestinian state by multiple Western countries during a combative speech at the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu labelled the recognition moves a "mark of shame" that sent the message "murdering Jews pays off".
|
|
|
Iran Faces Sweeping Sanctions
BBC (Politics)
Sweeping economic and military sanctions on Iran lifted under a landmark international deal over its nuclear programme 10 years ago are set to be reimposed on Saturday night barring a last-minute breakthrough. It comes after the UK, France and Germany wrote to the UN Security Council last month, accusing Iran of failing to fulfil its commitments. That triggered a mechanism giving Iran 30 days to find a diplomatic solution to avert renewed sanctions.
|
|
China to keep Killjoys off the Internet
|
|
|
|
|
We Lose When We Can't Talk
Communication
The past 10 years have done major damage to our social fabric. Polarization is at an all-time high. It can feel daunting—perhaps even misguided—to engage in meaningful dialogue with those holding starkly different views. What does it mean to champion pluralism in such a moment? Persuasion’s new series on the future of pluralism, generously supported by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, features essays and podcast interviews that make the case for civic dialogue and highlight inspiring examples of it in practice. Image by Dream Studio
|
|
|
|
|
The Secret Language of Cults: Crash Course Lecture Crash Course Linguistics |
|
|
Words hold tremendous power. Cult leaders know that all too well — but so do fitness instructors, celebrities, and corporate leaders. In our world today, we are increasingly exposed to, and influenced by, complicated mazes of buzzwords, mantras, euphemisms, clichés, and redefinitions: in short, language that’s just a little bit cultish. Social commentator and author Amanda Montell presents this Crash Course lecture about linguistics, culture, and belonging. Image by Leonardo |
|
|
Quote of The Week
Leave a part of yourself with every hello and every goodbye.
- James King -
|
|
|
Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
|
|
Democracy only Works if we Agree on Facts
That basic requirement is now broken. Consider this: 30% of Americans believe Joe Biden stole the presidency despite no evidence of widespread fraud after countless Republican-led investigations. One-third of adults believe COVID vaccines have caused thousands of sudden deaths in otherwise healthy people. 63% of Republicans think the January 6th defendants deserved pardons. These are people believing things that didn't happen.
|
|
|
The Power to Choose
THE SUBSTACK POST (Freedom of Speech)
In his farewell address in September 1796, just five years after the First Amendment took effect, President George Washington warned his young nation of the dangers of factionalism. “It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection,” America’s first President said. |
|
Why Authoritarians Fear Common Knowledge
PERSUASION (Philosophy: Epistemology)
When the little boy said the emperor was naked, he wasn’t telling anyone anything they didn’t already know. But he added to their knowledge nonetheless. By blurting out what every onlooker could see within earshot of the others, he ensured that they now knew that everyone else knew what they knew, that everyone knew that everyone knew that, and so on. |
|
|
Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing
“As a man is, so he sees.” William Blake Because how we look at the world shapes the world we see, every act of noticing is an act of worlding. The Latin root of notice is to begin knowing, to have an instrument of recognition, and yet human consciousness is a prediction machine that recognizes only what it already knows, sees what it expects to see, lensed through its anticipations and past experience. |
|
|
Misremembering Civil Rights
PERSUASION (Human/Civil Rights)
Violent protests don’t work in a democracy. They don’t create change. They destroy opportunities to reform America. Several times a year, there’s another burst of moral enthusiasm on some issue followed by disruptive protests. Shabbily dressed rowdies emerge, faces covered, to shout, obstruct, and intimidate. They block streets and entrances. They take over public spaces. They chant angry slogans and carry vulgar signs. They get in people’s faces. They pull offensive stunts, they set things on fire, loot, or outright riot.
. |
|
Why Civilization Is Older Than We Thought
PALLADIUM (Built Environments)
When we find remains of beavers, we assume they built beaver dams, even if we don’t immediately find remnants of such dams. The beaver dams are part of what biologists would call the animal’s extended phenotype, an unavoidable necessity of the ecological niche that the beaver occupies. When we find Homo sapiens skeletons, however, we instead imagine the people naked, feasting on berries, without shelter, and without social differentiation. The contemporary imagination of the state of nature has been bounded by the thought experiments of Western political theorists. |
|
|
UPGRADE to PAID
CURIOUSMINDS content and opinions contain important information curated from reliable sources. We rely on reader support to keep it FREE. We want it to reach as many people as possible. If you value what we do and would like to help us sustain it, please consider a small monthly or annual contribution. Contributing subscribers get full access to all James King Publications including archives of CURIOUSMINDS, and a valuable BONUS: FREE ebook versions of all James King’s published books.Click - View them at Amazon · Donate via the - Choose a subscription plan - page. If you are not a subscriber already - Go to the Welcome page |
|
|
James King Blog offers valuable resources for students of Arts and Humanities. Particularly those interested in Environments, Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Art, Philosophy, Travel, and Human Rights. The articles provide insights into complex interactions between humans and their environments, and the ethical and moral dimensions of environmental issues. The Blog is relevant to students of all ages and those who are just fascinated by the Arts and Humanities. |
|
|
 Jericho – The First City on Earth? – Stunning History Documentary
They could all lay claim to being the first city on Earth. But Jericho, one of these early settlements, holds a special place due to its links to the biblical walls of the Old Testament, showcasing the earliest evidence of static communal living in history. |
|
|
FREE BOOKS201 Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense FreebiesThis Promo Closes October 20 Thriller authors join forces in joint promotion campaigns to introduce themselves to readers. You can download as many books as you like.
I hope you find plenty to entertain you. CLICK THE BANNER BELOW TO VIEW THE PROMO - AND GRAB AS MANY BOOKS AS YOU WANT |
|
|
|
|
ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND - SERIES
If you like thought-provoking drama, romantic tragedies, and damaged characters, then you’ll love the tropical sauna and wry humour of POST- IT NOTES and the other books in this Psychological Thriller series. The Series is a story of human challenge, manipulation, rejection, abuse, and a search for peace. |
|
|
|
|
THE KENRIGHT CHRONICLES - SERIES
The Kenright Chronicles is a psychological thriller series. Jack Kenright, a young investment banker gets involved in an international art swindle. which cripples his business and threatens his life and his family. He ends up a recluse, working for the FBI undercover and exposes massive corruption in the gambling world. |
|
|
|
|
The Immortal King Rao By Vauhuni Vara
Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in FictionNominated for the 2022 NBCC John Leonard Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vox, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary Hub
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government.
|
|
|
|
|
A Guide for the Perplexed By Dara Horn Intense, multilayered story." —Jami Attenberg, New York Times Book Review Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When she visits the Library of Alexandria as a tech consultant, she is abducted in Egypt's postrevolutionary chaos with only a copy of the philosopher Maimonides' famous work to anchor her—leaving her jealous sister Judith free to take over her life. A century earlier, Cambridge professor Solomon Schechter arrives in Egypt, hunting for a medieval archive hidden in a Cairo synagogue. Their stories intertwine in this spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.
|
|
|
Substack - Creative Xellence -
Join us at Creative Xellence where we are building a home for James King's Poetry, Short Stories and serialised Novels. Subscribe for Free and you will be notified of new content and recieve the Newsletter.
|
|
Medium
At Medium we curate high value informative articles related to A&H from major publishers and authoratative sources. And we publish a smattering of selected articles from James King Blog and articles written by James King for Medium Publications.
|
|
|
Please Share
Please share CURIOUSMINDS with those whose life it may brighten. Many readers don't realise that even if they don't spend a cent on one of my books, just by reading free books and blog posts, they are supporting the growth of James King Publications.
If you are not a subscriber already and would like to receive CURIOUSMINDS, CLICK HERE |
|
Important Emails
Important emails sometimes go to your SPAM folder. Here's how to avoid it happening repeatedly. In your Spam or Promotions Folder, mark them - Report as not Spam - they should then go to your inbox. See our Amazon Author Page and Facebook |
|
|
|
|
-b399lo.png)
