- Emanuel Ax and Yo-Yo Ma podcasting: “’We’ve developed a sixth sense,’ Ma said, after the show. ‘We’re not looking at one another, but we know exactly when to do something.’ ‘You have a very expressive back,’ Ax said.”
- The film Nuremberg: “The movie doesn’t show how the specially designed space at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice really looked on November 29: overhead lights were shone on the defendants so the entire courtroom could see them taking in the reality of their crimes. Madeleine Jacob, who covered the trial for the French newspaper Franc-Tireur, wrote: ‘I’ll never forget their faces broken by the horror when they found themselves suddenly face to face with the incriminating evidence: a documentary film on the concentration camps, presented in court this afternoon.’”
- Sports gambling increased to $160 billion last year, up from $4.9 billion in 2017.
- Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch, as a girl: “‘I loved things that made me feel small. I loved looking at the night sky, oftentimes between the pine-tree branches. Or, I love the ocean. North Carolina also has mountains…I just love the vastness of all those things.’”
- Brene Brown in the anti-empathy age.
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