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Bentham: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...

Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon

This shot from Artemis II of the Moon eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April

Are criminals born or made?

Sophie McBain in The Guardian: In 2021, the psychologist and writer Kathryn Paige Harden co-authored a paper outlining her research into the genetic patterns linked to a higher risk of developing subs

Something From the Outside Coming In

By channeling the Delphic spirits of his mentors, Lerner manages to avoid heavy-handed commentary in favor of stranger pursuits: finding the sense and nonsense in natural speech; intersplicing shards

Virginia Woolf’s Juvenilia

Ruby Eastwood at the Dublin Review of Books: The Life of Violet brings together three interconnected short stories written by Woolf in 1907, at the age of twenty-five. They show her beginning to think

A Catalog of an Entire House/Life

In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, “from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics… abso

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