“Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A: Living in fear.”

Commas, dashes, semicolons, and spaces have shaped how we read for centuries. What happens when machines start crafting the sentences?

The West can play at being universal, seeing itself as the only ‘civilisation’ and basing itself on metrics of...

“In this potato salad, there are potatoes. Mayonnaise. Paprika, obviously. Two giant celery chunks. One red onion, diced. Three hard-boiled eggs. Two ants an...

A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.

A 500-year old unsolved mystery

After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

“Human lives are fragile. A piano might fall on a person’s head. A person might get mistaken for a piñata at a birthday party and get beaten to death. An aut...

Alison Goldfrapp · Flux · Song · 2025

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It wasn’t enough to sing of God’s love, Dolly Parton felt she had to share it. And share it she did.

The representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of The Odyssey’s imagined world. We are not...

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne ...

YouTube video by Joan Osborne - Topic

A traveler asked: “How could ancient people possibly understand mathematics?” Excellent question. We accidentally invented geometry while trying to avoid car...