Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
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France’s notorious disregard for washing gradually changed as military authorities and public schools promoted a modern regime of cleanliness.
Over 250 million records sold and more than 70 platinum hits later, Jason Derulo sits down with us to talk about goals, insecurities, and why he still doesn’t feel like he’s “made it.”
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“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
An upstart third party is unlikely to dislodge the status quo in the current system.
Because the milk was thin and had an unnatural, bluish tint, vendors stirred in additives such as chalk, flour, eggs, and Plaster-of-Paris.
Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.
How to figure out the right amount of time for any project.
Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” remain controversial to this day.
In “The History of Western Philosophy,” Bertrand Russell made it clear whose thinking he admired — and whose thinking he didn’t.
Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
The Parthenon embodies the ideals of perfection Classical Greeks sought from architecture. The neighboring Erechtheion offers something else.
While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
The history of hell doesn’t begin with the Old Testament. Instead, hell took shape in the 2nd century from Mediterranean cultural exchange.
An insect? A vermin? An unwanted animal? What in the world is Franz Kafka talking about?
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
Millennia ago, philosophers like Anaximander grasped that nature is the ultimate recycler.
Discover how the threads of myth, legend, and artistry have been woven together by storytellers to craft history.
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
“In witness whereof, the parties hereunto have set their hands to these presents as a deed on the day month and year hereinbefore mentioned.”
There’s a lot to love about the innovations of Scrivener 3 for the Mac.
“Tristram Shandy” trolled its way to fame.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
A Cambridge Ph.D. student has solved a grammatical problem that has befuddled Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC.
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?
Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
The technology is not a replacement for human labor — it’s a way to complement existing human tasks.