“If we want even a shot at achieving our bold ambitions, it will mean having content on Spotify that many of us may not be proud to be associated with,” Ek said during the town hall. “Not anything goes, but…
From the start, I envisioned using the teenage poet’s herbarium — a forgotten treasure at the intersection of art and science, one of my favorite discoveries during the research for the Dickinson chapters of Figuring — as the raw material…
It’s bad enough that SUNY Fredonia’s president, Stephen Kolison, has shown no leadership on this matter. For the faculty to also allow itself to be pushed around by the ignorant mob here would be an extraordinary and shameful betrayal of…
Publons was acquired in 2017 by Clarivate (NYSE: CLVT), formed in 2016 when a private equity firm and an investment manager bought an intellectual property business. Valued at billion, Clarivate has a “bold entrepreneurial mission to help customers reduce the…
(via Susanna Schellenberg) Professor Comesaña specializes in epistemology. He is the author of Being Rational and Being Right (2020) and the forthcoming Skepticism: The Basics (co-authored with his father, Manuel Comesaña), along with many other works, which you can browse here and here.…
“It’s a shocking sign of how much we’re just indicating conversations around sexuality versus really having them,” said sex coach Jessica Habie, who’s developing her own drama series, Here She Comes, which she hopes will push the country toward new…
We are self-contradictory creatures moving through a discontinuous world, glimpsing only fragments of reality. The hallmark of our species, the cost of living inside a consciousness so elaborate yet so self-limited, is that we know all this and yet we…
[Marion Pinaffo & Raphaël Pluvinage – “Affiches Artifices No.8” (aka “On Phire”)] I’m not asking what today’s most influential philosophers are writing about. Rather, what are the members of philosophy’s “next generation”—today’s graduate students and recent PhDs—interested in and working on?…
Prepare for season 4 of The Sinner. Netflix Entertain your brain with the coolest news from streaming to superheroes, memes to video games. Aside from meeting his new partner in artist Sonya, season 3 saw Harry pushed to the extremes.…
Luckily we also have 2/22/22 to get this done! Whew! Gety Images Ignore the missing zeroes, and 2-2-22 is also a palindrome date, because it’s the same forward or backward. Last year, 2021, had a ton of palindrome dates, including…
Upon learning that the city of Ben Tre had been bombed and hearing an American officer declare, in his recollection, “that he had to destroy the town in order to save the town,” Thich Nhat Hanh saw war clearly for…
Again, recognizing that the official topic of a module might not be reflective of its content, the researchers looked at what was taught in these modules, and again, they found that around 90% of the courses had “minimal or no”…