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Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.
Just as there are many types of believers, there's not only one type of atheist.
AI programs like ChatGPT can create "thanabots" based on deceased loved ones' digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.
Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there's a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
Sci-fi enthusiasts have long hoped that a substance called antimatter might experience gravity opposite that of ordinary matter. It doesn't.
The Russian writer’s scorn went beyond a difference in taste; Leo Tolstoy virulently hated everything Shakespeare had come to stand for.
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
He co-created one of TV’s funniest shows. He still felt like a failure in his 30s. This is comedian Neal Brennan’s story about conquering toxic self-talk.
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Dive into five philosophical schools that have faded into obscurity but still whisper through the ages.
Many of his criticisms ring true today.
Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature's most unreliable narrators.
If a court needs to know if two trademarks look too similar to each other, perhaps the jury should be given a brain scan.
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky's talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
Uncovering the ideology of "Karens" and "Kens."
Take your story from beginning to end with expert guidance.
Because Dylan “samples and digests” songs from the past, he has been accused of plagiarism. But imitatio isn't the same.
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
If a person stands little chance of ever being wealthy, perhaps playing the lottery is a rational decision.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
Man does not live by measurement alone.
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
The answer may lie in the power to see far, far beyond yourself.
George Orwell got it right: "Never use a long word where a short one will do."