The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example

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The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.

A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty questions, thirty types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, mercenary. Which were you?

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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Until I began my Ph.D. in the United States, I had spent my entire life in Korea, speaking Korean. While I had a sense of “using” other languages, having studied Chinese in high school, French in coll...

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A partial history of the hidden labor that makes possible the poems, stories, essays, and books you read.

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot