— Jessica DolcourtThat being said, let’s have a look at what we use to relieve some pressure. Almost every modern job comes with aches and pains. Whether you’re in the trades or you sit behind a desk, some part of…
How we went from quanta packages to the laughter of children on a summer afternoon. By Maria Popova Consider a world without consciousness. The darkness is a bubbling cauldron of energy and vibrating matter, locked in the dance of thermal…
Juan Carlos Flores (University of Detroit Mercy)A Critical Edition of Henry of Ghent’s Summa Quaestionum Ordinariarum, Articles 73–75 Preparation for print and digital publication of 13th-century philosopher Henry of Ghent’s Questiones ordinariae (Summa), articles 73-75.(5,528 / [Scholarly Editions and Translations)…
It’s harder to modify the interiors of modern coachbuilt cars — blame those pesky safety regulations — so the Batur’s cabin doesn’t differ too much from the Continental GT, but Mulliner is able to do a lot of wild stuff…
That is what Kwame Anthony Appiah explores in The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity (public library) — an uncommonly perceptive and sensitive book about the nested nature of belonging, punctuated by poetry, with the appropriately nested sub-subtitle “Creed, Country, Colour,…
This Midwest can is one of the plastic cans a few CNET Cars staffers have in their garages. We like it for the 2-gallon size and the fact that it exceeds CARB and EPA requirements for storing flammable liquid. What…
A World Brain, operating by an enhanced educational system through the whole body of mankind… will replace our multitude of uncoordinated ganglia, our powerless miscellany of universities, research institutions, literatures with a purpose, national educational systems and the like; in…
Diego Luna, in particular, fails to convince as an icy assassin, but that could also be because his soulful eyes are just soooo dreamy. Faithfully brushing up against the Star Wars saga, Rogue One nonetheless takes us places in the…
Now, philosophy is not quite so lucrative as medicine (or perhaps even medieval candle-making). But when there’s less to go around, it’s all the more important to control who takes a bite from the pie. We’ve created politely distanced metrics—CV…
Nowhere is the joy of existence so apparent as in music… Intelligent life-forms have created a multitude of sounds that express their exhilaration at being alive. That is what the poetic physicist Alan Lightman explores with great subtlety and splendor…