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Reading classic books can inform you as much about the present as the past.
Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.
Aristotle’s ancient virtues play a vital role in today’s war.
We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
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You would think that with all our technology, like the James Webb Space Telescope, we would know how big the Universe is. But we don’t.
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“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not to mark Mexican independence.
Before Herbert came along and wrote Dune, few if any sci-fi stories were set in fully realized universes.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
Fear is one of the oldest and most powerful emotions known to man, so it should come as no surprise that horror stories are as old as storytelling itself.
It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
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There’s a lot to love about the innovations of Scrivener 3 for the Mac.
Experimental archaeology is the practice of recreating past events using knowledge and tools available at the time. Sometimes, it involves elephants.
Is “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch a condemnation of sin or a celebration of hedonism? Art historians still aren’t sure.
Are you a striver or a pioneer?
In hell, we assume a position of moral superiority, looking down over the sinners and the poor decisions that led them to this wretched place. In heaven, Dante is looking down upon us.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
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To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
A five-year-old reading a picture book in her pillow fort. A college student and his friends at the midnight matinee. A ninety-year-old watching her soaps. What do they have in […]
Although equal parts Hollywood blockbuster and Putinist propaganda, “Trotsky” still manages to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s revolutionary past.