- “Those who ultimately fell into a midcareer slump averaged 30% wage growth in their first 10 years of work, compared with 71% for those who kept progressing… The good news is that obtaining a few strategic skills to shift into a more promising, adjacent field can significantly reduce the risk,” reports WSJ.
- Sanjana Friedman, City Journal: “In the debate over data-center construction, we are indeed deciding how much electricity to allocate or how much water to conserve. But we are also deciding whether the risks of progress outweigh the risks of stagnation, and whether we are still the sort of society willing to find out.”
- “The scene of the ransom of Hektor, originally configured in terms of archaic gift-exchange, increasingly [over the 6th and 5th centuries, especially 570-430] drew upon the form and symbols of imperial expression found in West Asia and then, finally, in classical Athens itself…”–based on Athenian vase paintings, argues Margaret C. Miller in Antike Kunst.
- JRR Tolkien drew extensively on his classical education and classical sources, which is finally being appreciated, says a recent review in Acta Classica. Note the Old Forest as an Ovidian landscape, Tom Bombadil as a Christianized Orphic figure, hospitality as xenia, Numenor like a Platonic Atlantis, reappropriating ancient models of idealized communities, etc.
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