The forest, this place of constant change that feels somehow atemporal, an everlasting Yes! to life echoed by an ungrudging and vibrant Yes! to death — a place where one feels most intimately the elemental yet counterintuitive fact that death…
We see Olenka’s mode of loving, from one angle, as a beautiful thing: in that mode, the self disappears and all that remains is affectionate, altruistic regard for the beloved. From another angle, we see it as a terrible thing,…
You can view more of Keiko Ikeuchi’s photography here. Adrian Moore. Photo by Keiko Ikeuchi. The Institute for Ethics in AI are particularly keen to feature humanistic imagery to counter some of the stereotypes that come to mind when we…
How awesome? Well, ahead of the GT4 RS’ official debut, Porsche took a nearly completed prototype to Germany’s infamous Nurburgring to set a lap time. In the hands of Porsche development driver Jörg Bergmeister, the GT4 RS lapped the ‘Ring…
The newest season of Hi-Phi Nation, the popular philosophy podcast hosted by Barry Lam (Vassar College), is a four-part series on the work and life of philosopher David Lewis. Yet, Steffi categorized him as a labor leftist. David’s father John…
Release date: July 15, 2022 Blockbusters of 2021 (and 2022) Tom Hanks is the last man on Earth and Caleb Landry Jones is his faithful robot in this post-apocalyptic drama. Originally titled Bios, it was renamed Finch and will be…
We are born wonder-stricken by the glory of nature — it can only be so, for we ourselves are living wonders, sentient somethings against the staggering odds of nothingness — and yet we so readily relinquish this natural bond at…
The most intellectually alive places I had been had not assigned grades, or had de-emphasized them. Without a grade, you were free to work as hard you wanted, in the way you wanted, past a certain threshhold. It was not…
In any case, I suspect that the primary reason why editors do not feel obliged to provide feedback in the case of a post-review editorial rejection is that so far there has not been enough pressure on them to do…
Maybe Roman is right when he predicts Kendall will self-destruct. Sure, the youngest Roy sibling is unpleasantly quick to put the boot into his elder brother, but he may have a point. What Kendall needs is allies. HBO Succession season…
Sarah Tew/CNET “If we lose the teen foothold in the U.S. we lose the pipeline,” says an internal Instagram memo from last October, which presents a marketing strategy for this year, the Times’ Saturday report said. Last month, Instagram paused…
The visionary poets knew — as do the visionaries of scientist, as do all persons engaged in lives of creativity or contemplation, which are often one life — how this solitary self-discovery becomes the wellspring of all the meaning-making that…