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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Me lo diceva anche il poeta residente Roberto R. Corsi pochi giorni fa: meno news e più libri. Le news fanno male. Che dite, chiudiamo il canale?

Money quote: "Perhaps it’s time we realize that consuming more news about the world around us is not the way to improve it (or ourselves), personally or politically. Two thousand years ago, Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations, “Are you distracted by breaking news? Then take some leisure time to learn something good, and stop bouncing around.”"

(Ps: la parte su Marco Aurelio che ragiona dell'information overload mi fa impazzire. Gli americani sono proprio dei giuggioloni...)

https://medium.com/s/story/the-case-for-watching-less-news-8020c88fd5f
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Forse è la più grande rivista manga del mondo: 2264 pagine, 44 manga e 120 personaggi in un volume spesso 13 centimetri: https://bit.ly/2VE6B84.
Morte per selfie. La storia, anzi le storie.

Money quote: "Wu’s death, after all, is only the latest in a string of selfie-related fatalities. Termed “killfies” by some social media researchers, these accidental deaths have involved social media personalities and, of course, adventurers. Canadian rapper Jon James McMurray perished last October after crawling out onto the wing of a Cessna while filming a music video. Last October also witnessed the much-publicized deaths of travel bloggers Meenakshi Moorthy and Vishnu Viswanath, who apparently fell while taking a selfie at Yosemite’s Taft Point, a popular rock outcrop with an 800-foot drop. A month prior, Tomar Frankfurter, an 18-year-old from Jerusalem, also fell to his death in the park while reportedly taking a selfie at Nevada Fall. Last July, three stars of High on Life, a popular YouTube thrill-seeking adventure travel show, plummeted to their deaths at a waterfall near Squamish, British Columbia. And in late March, a man from Macau fell 1,000 feet to his death while attempting to take a selfie on the rim at Grand Canyon West."

https://www.outsideonline.com/2393419/selfie-deaths
Il tenente Colombo, Peter Falk e l'Ungheria

Money quote: "So why is his statue in Budapest? It turns out Falk was rumored to be related to the 19th-century Hungarian writer and political figure Miksa Falk. While it’s clear the actor’s family had Hungarian roots, his connection to Miksa Falk has never been entirely proven. Even so, the Columbo statue was installed on Falk Miksa Street in 2014. The statue, in the context of a city that takes its statuary quite seriously, reflects a desire to preserve and celebrate native Hungarian culture following decades of political turmoil and foreign influence."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-is-there-a-columbo-statue-in-budapest
La storia di Pearl Harbour, in foto.

Money quote: " In this Dec. 15, 1941 file photo, Ruth Lee, a hostess at a Chinese restaurant, flies a Chinese flag so she isn’t mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off in Miami, in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lee was born in the U.S."

https://flashbak.com/pearl-harbor-the-photo-story-of-japans-1941-attack-before-after-and-during-8890/
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