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AddIt was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
When Nolan’s space epic was released in 2014, critics picked at the plot holes and scientists picked at the science – now, 11 years later, it’s the internet’s favourite film. Was it just ahead of its time?
swordcrossed Now available from Tor and Bramble UK! A USA Today bestseller!A New York Times Best Romance of 2024An Indie Next pickA LibraryReads Hall of Fame pickA LitHub most anticipated book of 2024 Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his […]
S3 E4 Back to Thailand - Cave Diver Craig Challen on The Rescue, Risk and Adventure
The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption and...
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Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …
I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson
Moving the capital is an old idea and a perennial nonstarter.
The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.
S2 E8 Free Solo and More - Alex Honnold on Life and El Capitan