Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life

"Hallucinating" AIs sound creative, but let's not celebrate being wrong

Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection

How might life migrate through the universe?

Piranesi, Borges, and the Labyrinths of Time

Mouth gestures and their meanings around the world (2005)

The two-century quest to quantify our senses

The Tyranny of Science over Mothers

The myth of a wilderness without humans

The Blunders of a 16th-Century Physician-Astrologer

Subterranean Paris: Félix Nadar’s Descent into the Parisian Underground

The art of the shadow: How painters have gotten it wrong for centuries

How New Ideas Arise

Finding Language in the Brain

The Organ-on-a-Chip Revolution Is Here

The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

The New Art of Making Books

Elites tried to monopolize hunting

Freeman Dyson and me

The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’

Scratch Cyborgs: The Hip-Hop DJ as Technology

Legendary Film Critic Serge Daney on Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’

‘That was our beach’: Notes on Fred Conrad’s Iconic 1977 Photograph

The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’

When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders

A Master Perfumer's Reflections on Patchouli and Vetiver

Why Punish?

Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly

Artificial Lives: On the Occult Origins of Chemistry and the Stuff of Life

Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety

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