This is pretty cool (and by “cool” I mean fun for word nerds and, for everyone else, a painful reminder + more
This is pretty cool (and by “cool” I mean fun for word nerds and, for everyone else, a painful reminder + more
Just when I thought the nerds of Silicon Valley couldn’t get any weirder, news of a super-secret brain-trust of highly + more
Bad news, folks: Naturalist Adrian Shine, who has led the Loch Ness Project since 1973, says Nessie doesn’t exist. “The + more
Well, this is depressing: Most of us now discriminate against members of the other political side explicitly and implicitly—in hiring, + more
In addition to torturing dissidents, starving millions of their own people to death, and running several countries’ economies into the + more
In War and Peace – “the greatest of all novels” – Tolstoy “shows us how our minds work even though + more
The most prolific art thief who ever lived? Over at GQ, Stéphane Breitwieser reveals his secrets. “In the annals of + more
Can we talk about the word belated? Here’s how The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fourth edition) defines + more
Mark Hollis has died. The Talk Talk front man was only 64. Two of the band’s albums – 1988’s Spirit of + more
EVEN SUCH IS TIME Sir Walter Raleigh* Even such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all + more
Did you know that there are hierarchies to cool? In a brilliant and incisive (not to mention hilarious) essay over + more
If you’re in the midst of an existential crisis right now, you’re probably not going to want to watch this. + more
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences includes a pretty interesting finding: “Listening to the + more