Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately âthat intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.â
Time for a status update on cultural drift. Iâve been pondering solutions, and now see at best only three weakly promising options. The other possible approaches seem to me at best only modest supplem
Design is perhaps the software paradigm most wedded to the mouse and the GUI. But thereâs no reason it canât be text-driven.
To me, the hard part about being creative is that youâre always trying to
Americaâs two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January â including during Winter Storm Fern.
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that th
âFearlessness is what love seeks⌠Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future⌠Hence the only valid tense is the present, the Now.â
Just over an hour ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the end of a tolerant, democratic Europe and its break-up into a disparate group of smaller, Trumpist states, and the Europeans in t
New York City nurses reached deals and ended their strikes at two hospitals last week. But at NewYork-Presbyterian, New Yorkâs richest hospital, 4,200 nurses are still striking after overwhelmingly re
Itâs good that the federal occupation of Minnesota is ending. But the Trump administration shouldnât be allowed to pretend it never happened. Justice would require a wave of impeachments, criminal cha
Mexicoâs president, Claudia Sheinbaum, wants to send Cuba some desperately needed oil. Donald Trump sent the US Navy into the Caribbean to make sure that doesnât happen.
The invasion of Venezuela has
Thanks to AI, white-collar workers are discovering what blue-collar workers learned a half-century ago: theyâre disposable.
Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon, speaks during an unveiling ev
If what you want is to see tiny people all over your plate, you 100% absolutely have to try Lanmaoa asiatica. The mushroom is a popular food during mushroom season, but if undercooked has the same eff
Janne Mattila at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: The large question going through the book is whether setting God as our moral exemplar makes much sense. If God is understood to set the ultimate cri
I know I probably say this every time I post videos like this, but I wish Iâd gotten into art & art history earlier than I did. Channels like Behind the Masterpiece are so good at making this stuff co
What would you do with $3 million?
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On historical accuracy in movies (Wuthering Heights, The Odyssey) and the âanxious, professional monitoring in which the images onscreen must be checked and rechecked for their accordance with the ori
Vivien Schweitzer at The American Scholar: Ask most opera lovers what comes to mind when they think about Richard Wagnerâs Ring cycle, and theyâll likely mention the huge voices and lush, booming orch
Computer simulations offer new insights into the oddities of the ringed planetâs moons
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