From the European Review of Books: Belal felt life had become  too fast, stripped of slowness and reflection, and constrained by the lack of freedom to live and experience fully.  Visiting his homet
I thought the official video of Berghain by RosalĂa (feat. BjĂśrk & Yves Tumor) was great â âI donât even know what this is â classical pop? surrealist orchestral?â â and this recent live performance f
Good afternoon. Time for a break. Given the wall-to-wall coverage by Yves and others here, nothing explicit on this Good Friday about the Ramadan War in West Asia. Instead, herewith a few reflectio
Biographer Richard Holmes reveals how Tennyson predated Darwin and speaks to us today
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Steven Pinker at Quillette: In March 2026, three prominent thinkers died within a day of each other. Lavish obituaries immediately marked the deaths of the always-wrong environmentalist Paul Ehrlich a
Peter Rollins' founding ideas, Barry Taylor's radical theology, John Feldmann's question of structure, and LaVonne Chantal's experiment with intersubjectivity
A women had sex with identical twins (within a 4-day period), got pregnant, and now itâs impossible to tell which is the father, even with DNA testing.
"The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom... is always poised upon the knowledge of
NASAâs Johnson Space Center is gathering updates from the Artemis II mission and posting to this playlist on YouTube. Yay for science. Bonus link: A view of our planet. There will certainly be tons of
Postcrossing is all about sending and receiving postcards from random folks all over the world, and the USPS is putting out a stamp to celebrate the project. These global forever stamps are rare trian
Stephen Sims in The New Atlantis: The drones had been trained using AI to recognize Tu-95 âBearâ bombers based on photographs taken of a decommissioned version in a Ukrainian air museum and to recogni
Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies.
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Today, the poster is rarely, if ever, remembered for its relationship to the Cattle Baron, despite the name printed prominently in the bottom right corner. Instead, in museums and academic papers, Fac
The commander of NASAâs Artemis II mission to the Moon, Reid Wiseman, took this photo of the Earth as the spacecraft speeds away our planet.
There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodi
Over the last decade, Ethiopiaâs trade unions have experienced impressive growth, more than doubling their membership. Ethiopia and other African states with growing unions cut against the idea that o
Coalescing all known information about cacti for anyone who needs to know
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Andrew Deming in aeon: I was 10 when Frank Lloyd Wright first entered my consciousness. I was sitting crosslegged on the beige carpet of my bedroom in a tract house in Melbourne, Florida, watching a K
Stephen Lewis, leader of the Ontario NDP, son of founding NDP member David, and father of current leader Avi, has died. He leaves a complex legacy: he helped bring the NDP into the mainstream but at t
Christine Smallwood in Harperâs Magazine: To live in society involves putting up with people who we did not choose to know and may in fact prefer not to exist. Even those we basically like and get alo