High Culture

According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.

Studio Ghibli movies celebrate the natural world using a very Japanese mixture of Shinto, Buddhist, and Daoist themes.

Scans show similar activity to what occurs when you think about yourself.

Even tyrants and despots offer wisdom worth heeding.

Words of wisdom from H.P. Lovecraft, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dr. Temple Grandin, Hannah Gadsby and more.

“Deepfakes” and “cheap fakes” are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.

In the future, you might voluntarily share your social media data with your psychiatrist to inform a more accurate diagnosis.

New research from MIT is unintuitive but could lead to a better system.

Older people are in grave danger of being left behind.

Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.

The platform experiments with letting users decide what content needs flagging.

Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?

Archaeologists discover a cave painting of a wild pig that is now the world’s oldest dated work of representational art.