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This Article From Issue November-December 1999 Volume 87, Number 6 View Issue Tasting a spoonful from a much-diluted punch bowl might be sensible for…

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Was led out and bound to a stake, but the bundle of wood would not burn, or the flames parted away from her, whereupon the officer in charge of the troops drew his sword and beheaded her, or, in some other texts, stabbed her in the throat.

(CNN screencap) This is a special collaboration between Public Notice and Judd Legum of Popular Information. For more news and analysis from Judd and his team,…

The Man With the Key Is Not Here 管钥匙的人不在 Karin Malmstrom & Nancy Nash The Man With the Key is Not Here 管钥匙的人不在 offers 'Sixteen Chinese Key Words' (pun intended), or 'Everyday Mantras', and their layered meanings, that Chinese watchers of China know to be on the watch out for. China Watch

Public institutions are ceding to industry the power to regulate policing, writes Texas A&M University School of Law professor Hannah Bloch-Wehba.

John Berryman often arrived at lectures and seminars by taxi from whichever rehab clinic was treating him, and...

No, the Leiden Declaration is not a "public cry for help!"

Floating-point numbers are very useful for scientific programming, but early microprocessors only supported integers directly. 1 Although...

Picture Book of the Life of St John and the Apocalypse is a unique and visually striking example of the picture-book Apocalypse – a distinctive group of…

Gordon Willis was one of the cinema’s greatest artists. Drawing from over 25 feature films where he served as cinematographer, this video essay by Steven Benedict celebrates Willis’ lighting, blocking, preference for a 40mm lens and above all his use of strong geometric patterns. Whether he was collaborating with some of Hollywood’s most celebrated auteurs;

From Organic to Ornery The Story of Gorzynski “Ornery” Farm Many customers come to Greenmarket for organic ingredients, seeking out that certification on stand signs. But each Saturday at Union …

As artificial intelligence (AI) muscles its way into field after field, researchers have wrestled with what it means for the future of their disciplines. Few…

There’s a lot to love in this New York Times profile of the Mister Softee/New York Ice Cream feud: “Let me tell you about this business,” Adam Vega, a thickly…

Last week, 12 refugee women from across the globe traveled through the South on a pilgrimage to see and learn from civil rights heroes that lived, fought and changed the country with their sacrifices.

What a perfect life it would be to find joy, not only at home, but at work too. This joyful life can be yours, according to Joseph Campbell.

Essays The End of Books What happened when a dumpster arrived behind my university's library Sheila Liming Preserving the library alone will not rescue reading,…

May/June 2026Vol. XXXVIII No. 6 Lament for the MIT Libraries Elizabeth Cavicchi https://bit.ly/3Q36xNs Click to copy…

Oakland DIY music spaces of the early 21st century. A High Places show on the Bus, 2007. (Jhon Benson) The AC Transit bus pulls up to the West Oakland BART…

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Cinematographer Roger Deakins uses his blog to pull back the curtain on the lighting tricks that have made him famous. Roger Deakins, 2004, via Buena Vista.…

Credit: Far Out / Alamy Behind the Iron Curtain: Elton John’s concert in defiance of the Cold War Callum MacHattie Sat 4 January 2025 8:00, UK Follow us on…

How quiet it is in autumn, a strange and unearthly quiet. Everything is just as it always was, it seems nothing has changed. Neither the marsh nor the farmland,…

For the most part, when I hear someone use the word “autofiction,” I stop listening to what that person is saying. Wikipedia defines the term as “a form of…

Sermon - JUNGIAN TRANSFERENCE IN REAL LIFE - Images from the Rosarium Philosophorum © Barbara F. Meyers 2002. All Rights Reserved. A sermon delivered at the…

In this 1971 conversation with Amos Vogel, the Italian master discusses The Conformist, newly restored and in theaters now, and more

Red, Brown, and Black, (1958) by Mark Rothko In 1943, Mark Rothko, with his friend the painter Adolph Gottlieb, wrote several philosophical statements that…

(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the…

Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure that thousands of software developers working on those systems failed to find. This capability will have major security implications, compromising the devices and services we use every day. As a result, Anthropic is not releasing the model to the general public, but instead to a ...

Emmanuel Carrère examines Philip K Dick in I Am Alive and You Are Dead. Michael Moorcock on one of science fiction's strangest sons.

Collision between a USAF B-52G and KC-135 over the Mediterranean Sea near Spain The Palomares accident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a United States Air…

India’s Jamnagar refinery, via Wikipedia. Though wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still…

By questioning the myth of the cowboy, he offered a different kind of legend, one more suited to this country and its contradictions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s (1749–1832) Maxims and Reflections is a terrific source of philosophical wisdom. The German writer, statesman, lawyer, playwright,…

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The Lede TMZ Gets Political The celebrity tabloid has been basking in the Schadenfreude of catching politicians shirking their responsibility to the American…

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An art historian locates the political in paint – Sasha Frere-Jones

Short CGI video, one of the earliest examples of a meme or viral video Screenshot of the dancing baby The "Dancing Baby", also called "Baby Cha-Cha" or "the…

Before we start off, just a note to say that the fact that last week’s post came out on Friday rather than Sunday doesn’t mean a change of schedule, it was…

The Horta Museum, Brussels, Belgium Photograph: Alixe Lay In 1898, architect and designer Victor Horta embarked on building himself a family house and studio in…

A recently discovered tape, briefly released by Morrison on iTunes, may be a rock & roll Rosetta stone, serving as the link between Van the sorta-pop star and Van the Man superstar.

Every college campus is an adventure, requiring advance planning on my part so that I am able to navigate as quickly as possible to radio stations that are…