“The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.”
-French-Romanian Absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco, 1958
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The ‘People Map of the United States’ zooms in on America’s obsession with celebrity
There is no one answer. But there are 10.
The GoFly challenge has just announced 10 winning flying-car designs. It’s the first phase of a three-part contest, and they’re very cool.
It’s a delicious treat to watch godless libertarians rise to the defense of Protestant evangelicals this week.
A federal judge has ruled that “liking” something on Facebook does not count as constitutionally protected speech. It is a decision that has confounded some law professors.
The Bir Tawil Triangle is a desert of sand and rocks on the border between Egypt and the Sudan. It is also officially the most undesired territory in the world. […]
Jono Hey — whose sketches have been shared by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Bartlett — draws some of his most valued leadership insights.
Physicist Don Lincoln explains why mathematics is a powerful tool for scientific modeling, but is not a science itself.
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
The findings suggest that biochemical and physical effects of exercise could help heal nerves.
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Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
His $1 million ARC Prize competition is designed to put us on the right path.
50 years ago, Herman Chernoff proposed using human faces to represent multidimensional datasets. It was a good idea in theory — but a disaster in practice.
New radiocarbon dating reveals astonishing insights.
Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.
Rejecting romanticism, these famous paintings depict war as it really is: sadistic and senseless.
The One Ring has its own agency and sentience — and it opens up a wonderful philosophy of things beyond our comprehension.
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
These initially sympathetic characters take readers down a dark path.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
One hypothesis: “gossip traps.”
In 1903, a Vermont doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. It took him 63 days, $8,000, and 600 gallons of gas.
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