Category: Lifestyle
How Our Gesticulations Convey Meaning
The gesticulations that accompany your speech are so much more than mere hand-waving – they contain and convey meaning.
A Mystery in the Shape of a Book
Philip Graham in The Millions: On a gravel road outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, I stood…
Einstein’s Open Fly
by Irshad Salim, Karachi: I’ve observed that my contacts on WhatsApp generally have a shorter…
A History of Prejudice
David Feldman in The Ideas Letter: Over the last 100 years, the struggle against antisemitism…
What Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks Can Teach Us About Creativity
by Tracy Caldor in Cupoty Newsletter: Back in the 1980s I borrowed a Fighting Fantasy…
Meet the Editor Who Turned Himself Into an AI News Anchor
Alex Kantrowitz at Big Technology: The AI version of Elihay Vidal looks a lot like…
Travelogue: Red Phone Booths
by Azfar Shakil, Toronto: The red color public telephone booth locally called “Phone Box” in…
Review of “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” by Yuval Noah Harari
The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth.
The Great French Painter Who Had No Time For France
Describing himself as the ‘savage from Peru’, Paul Gauguin avoided French society when he could, returning to Polynesia in 1895, where he spent his final years…
Recipe: Pasta Shells
by Ghulam Mustafa: Pasta shells in bursting tomato soup with garlic crisps topped with garden…
Sarcastic Quotes That Are the Perfect Mix of Witty and Clever
Chloe Nannenstad in Reader’s Digest: Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s a reason sarcasm quotes are…
Aldous Huxley: On Truth and the Nature of Spiritual Reality
From Poetic Outlaws: In religious literature the word ‘truth’ is used indiscriminately in at least…