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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…

In 1883, Sir Coutts Lindsay, owner of the Grosvenor Art Gallery in Bond Street, decided that he wanted to illuminate his paintings without the smoke produced by…

Joy Castro reviews Alba de Céspedes’s “Forbidden Notebook,” translated by Ann Goldstein.

On the logical fallacy of causal projection

In-depth review blending analysis of Alfred Jarry's The Supermale and Messalina, highlighting pataphysical themes, sexual excess, human limits, and expanded metatextual examples like ironic asides, fragmented Latin, and narrative parodies. References to Nietzsche, Freud, Cervantes, Brecht, Derrida, Joyce, and Bataille add intellectual layers.

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I've recently been contributing to the Pybricks project, a community-run port of MicroPython to Lego Mindstorms hardware. As part of that, I obtained a used…

I enjoy writing code. Let me get that out of the way first. The problem solving, the architecture decisions, the feeling when something clicks into place. That…

Explore best practices and practical use cases for reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) with OpenAI models.

William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy d…

The Knockturnal spoke to filmmaker Sabrina Jaglom and curator of Hope Runs High, Taylor Purdee, about the NYC…

mystic and kabbalistic simbology related to life whose meaning depends on culture or religion

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The Habeas Corpus Act passed by Parliament in 1679 guaranteed that a person detained by the authorities would have to be brought before a court of law so that the legality of the detention may be e…

Annals of Inquiry Jane Bennett argues that the stuff that surrounds us isn’t inert—it has a will of its own. February 28, 2023 Illustration by Sean Dong I often…

At lunch with Shep Gordon, the godfather of everything, who played a central role in fostering the careers of everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Alice Cooper to Emeril Lagasse to Daniel Boulud.

Onward and Upward with the Arts The studio is brilliant at selling small, provocative films. Now it wants to sell blockbusters, too. August 25, 2025…

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Annals of Inquiry Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments,…

Wiener was far ahead of his time in recognizing that our habits of technology-fueled consumption pose significant threats to health and the environment.

By laf3adm / April 1, 2003 / Grant Chu Covell / Grant Chu Covell [April 2003.] One of the 20th century’s pivotal musicians, David Tudor, whom we normally think…

As the International Booker celebrates 10 years in its current form, we look back on a decade of powerful prize winners, translated from 10 different languages

Editor’s Note: This article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. The original article can be seen…

Spec driven develoment is the future of software engineering. Most of our time will be spent clarifying intent and goals, giving strong LLMs just enough

4856 words | Dan Hollick Invariably, it involves trying to trap electrons in increasingly complicated ways. ╌╌╌╌ Computers depend on memory - the and are just…

The Five Most-Often Performed Piano Concertos at Carnegie Hall The stage door opens, and a pianist makes their way through the orchestra to the keyboard to…

When Texas Instruments developed a process to mass produce transistors in the early 1950s, they wanted to show the advantages over tubes to spur marketing. The…

By Cynthia Kaplan February 6, 2026 What do you do when you finally admit to yourself that you’ve had something akin to Anne Frank’s diary in your living room…

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Introduction Jacques Rancière’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons In Intellectual Emancipation is difficult to categorize. Reminiscent of certain work of…

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Lemonade Autonomous Car insurance offers Tesla owners 50% off FSD miles in select states. The first insurance designed for self-driving cars.

Jawn (/jôn/) A term used by New York transplants to pander to locals and/or cynically promote their recently opened boutique, restaurant, or bakery. “Come…

In a world where a work of literary fiction hasn’t topped the New York Times’s Bestseller list in over 20 years, the novel, the poem, and the critical essay…

foundational text of Yoga in Sanskrit from ancient India by Patanjali

Streetscapes | Readers’ Questions A view of the co-op at 66 Court Street in Brooklyn in 1939 and today. The building, designed by Abraham J. Simberg, was also…

First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017). Against the muted winter lawn, a minister attempts to hoist a fallen gravestone into the vertical position. This stark…

This probably isn’t something a professor should be telling you, but I walk into class at the beginning of every semester feeling just as anxious as I did more…

An iconic 1970s soundsystem lives on inside a Coney Island attraction. Vivian Host catches up with sound engineer Dan Prosseda about the magical speaker stacks…

Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.

Jamie Kitman’s Octane Film Cars specializes in finding the rides that set period films and TV shows in time

Charles Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, discovered a method of calculating determinants now known variously as the method of contractants,…