Crate of Curios part 28
Another beautiful blooming Sunday, slightly chilly, albeit the cold-resistant people are already out in shorts and short sleeves. Jewelry sellers were out in Thiseio, people taking Sunday walks and queuing in the coffee shops to get their takeaways, so except for the still-ubiquitous masks life felt almost… normal. As the Sufi poet said — “This too shall pass”. The same, however, goes for this evening hour and as I need to get up early tomorrow, let’s get to opening this week’s Crate without further ado.
- We like to pooh-pooh selfies as a modern malady that our forebearers supposedly were blessedly free from. As it shows, what kept them from plastering their visages everywhere was rather a lack of finances, proven by the Countess da Castiglione, a famous socialite of 19th century, who bankrupted herself paying for her over 700 portrait photos.
2. Why do we consider people with a negative outlook more intelligent than their counterparts with a sunnier disposition? There are a few theories about that.
3. The English language has a funny feature — it uses a number of animal names as verbs. Not all of those verbs do justice to the creature in question.
4. The feel-good feline for this week is Smol Paul, the wobbly tuxedo kitten (by now more of a cat though), living his best life and getting up to shenanigans in Holly’s Home for Manky Moggies. (Paul is wobbly due to cerebellar hypoplasia, a type of inborn brain damage to the part of the brain that controls motor impulses.)
5. Ever wondered how low we can go in Europe in terms of temperature? Find all the answers on this map.
6. And to finish off for this week — a little comic from Nathan W. Pyle for the introverts among us.
___________________________________________________________________
If you want to receive the Crate to your mailbox, you can subscribe here at Substack.
If you want to read the earlier Crates, you’ll find them in my BonaramisArt blog.
Originally published at http://bonaramis.com on April 11, 2021.
