The Only Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled
It is here that we find the strongest expression of Blake’s politics. True politics are not…
Barry Lopez on Storytelling and His Advice on the Three Steps to Becoming a Writer
In his altogether superb essay collection About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory (public…
Is ‘Healthy Coke’ Healthier Than Real Coke? – CNET
From an oral care perspective, the “healthy Coke” trend isn’t any healthier than consuming a regular…
The Human Kaleidoscope and the Unwritten Story of the World: “Radiolab” Creator Jad Abumrad’s Superb Caltech Commencement Address
Any day.I would like to address this existential question and the angst it presents. (I feel…
Perceptions and Appetitions: New Music About Philosophy (guest post)
The first single for the new album was already released on Wednesday. It’s called The Cabinet,…
The Original Pokemon Snap Is Coming to Nintendo Switch on June 24 – CNET
Nintendo is bringing another classic N64 game to the Switch next week. Pokemon Snap marks the…
June 16, 1816: The Inception of Frankenstein and Mary Shelley’s Prescient Warning About Reproductive Rights
“Oh! Stars and clouds and winds,” cries the Creature in his anguished wish for self-erasure, “if…
Everything to Know About Dall-E Mini, the Bizarre AI Art Creator – CNET
Batman surfing. Here’s what you need to know about Dall-E Mini and its AI-generated art. This…
Twenty Reasons for Being
A pastiche poem of tribute to the past and resolve for the possible. By Maria Popova…
Bronson Alcott on the Meaning of Family and How Our Friendships Humanize Us: His Ecstatic Diary Entry Upon His Daughter Louisa May’s Birth
Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799–March 4, 1888) — abolitionist, education reformer, women’s rights advocate, early proponent…
Why There’s a Tampon Shortage, and What to Do if You Can’t Find Any – CNET
What’s happening Whether you’re able to get your preferred tampon brand (or any tampon that’ll do)…
Moral Dumbfounding and Philosophical Humility (guest post)
Interlocutor: Interesting defense of Double-Effect (although it hardly follows from something’s being innate that it’s true),…
The Beginning and the End: Robinson Jeffers’s Epic Poem About the Interwoven Mystery of Mind and Universe
As usual, Natalie prefaced her reading with a poignant reflection that is itself nothing less than…
‘Ms. Marvel’ Release Schedule: When Is Episode 2 Available on Disney Plus? – CNET
The Disney Plus series Ms. Marvel premiered on June 8, introducing us to Khan, played by…
Astronomers May Have Discovered the First Wandering Black Hole – CNET
What’s happening 7:58 Why it matters The debate over exactly what type of cosmic character is…
The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the “Submerged Sunrise of Wonder”
All of this — the dandelion, the insistence on wonder as the sieve for meaning —…
The Grandmother, the Mermaid, and the Soul: Poet Elizabeth Alexander on How Literature Widens the Portal of the Possible
My grandmother Wenonah Bond Logan was the most beloved friend of my childhood. She grew up…
What iOS 16 and Android 13 Tell Us About the Future of Smartphones – CNET
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers…
Netflix’s Biggest Shows and Movies Ever, Ranked (According to Netflix) – CNET
Netflix, for years, was notoriously tight-lipped about its viewership. But after a few years of dropping…
The Solace of Open Spaces
[…] […] She learns what we all do once some cataclysm awakens us to the finitude…
Scientists Studying Asteroid Treasure Box Find Most Pristine Solar System Rocks Ever Studied – CNET
What’s happening After a four-year journey, Hayabusa2 rendezvoused with the space rock and then, in 2019,…
The Art of Living: The Contemplative Cartoonist Grant Snider’s Illustrated Love Letter to Noticing and Manifesto for Self-Liberation from Striving
“The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of…
Dismantling the Dogmas of Life and Death: How the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
An organized mind must conceive of time as flowing towards that direction in which is more…
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet: Every New Pokemon Revealed So Far – CNET
Fuecoco is Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s fire-type starter. The pepper-shaped crocodile is said to be “laid…
Hermann Hesse on Trees and the Meaning of Life
Constantly this way and thatThe flowering branch flails in the wind,Constantly up and downMy heart flails…
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Trailer Shows Off 4-Player Co-Op, Release Date – CNET
It also appears your character will be enrolled at a different academy depending on your version,…
Light Topics, Real Philosophy: Some Lessons from Writing about the Philosophy of Cover Songs (guest post)
When I announced the release of my book on Twitter, lots of people expressed interest and…
Consciousness and the Constellations: Cognitive Scientist Alexandra Horowitz Reads and Reflects on Robert Frost
Because it is its own place, it can only perceive the rest of reality from that…
Apple Store Down Ahead of WWDC 2022 – CNET
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers…
The Power of the Bittersweet: Susan Cain on Longing as the Fulcrum of Creativity
There is in this notion an echo of Oscar Wilde’s stirring prison letter, in which he…