Art
Notes and explorations in the history of art.
- MPB map
The artists of Música Popular Brasileira placed on two axes — time and influence — from choro and samba roots through Bossa Nova and Tropicália to today.
- MPB artists & their key songs
Every artist from the MPB map, with their main stylistic contributions and key songs or albums — one card per idea.
- Reading — the facts
Is reading up or down? What about book sales? How concentrated is it, and what does reading provably do to cognition? The numbers, with sources and their caveats.
- Culinary world map
The world divided into 182 culinary regions — Brittany, Oaxaca, Sichuan, not countries — each with a card on its particularities, signature dishes, defining ingredients and chefs.
- Dishes of the world
The signature dishes of every culinary region — one card per dish, with what it is and why it matters.
- Ingredients of the world
The defining ingredients of every culinary region — one card per ingredient, with the role it plays in its region's cooking.
- Artistic map
Some 500 artists placed on two axes — time and influence — linked by known lines of influence, from Phidias to the present.
- Artists & their ideas
Every artist from the map, with their main ideas and key works — one card per idea.
- Movements & schools
The movements and schools of art history — what each one claimed, the artists who carried it, and the works that define it.
- Culinary map
The great chefs and gastronomes placed on two axes — time and influence — linked by lines of teaching and reaction, from Apicius to the New Nordic kitchen.
- Chefs & their signature dishes
Every chef from the culinary map, with their main concepts and signature dishes — one card per idea.