A reporter in Gaza finds a Catholic community grieving their family members killed by Israeli bombs, but still worshipping together.
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“And I saw Sisyphus in agonizing torment, drafting a reply to Kayleigh’s ten urgent UX questions. He hit ‘send,’ and immediately received an autoresponder: ‘I no longer work here! For questions, contact Caleb, Chief Joy Officer.’”
—Homer, Odyssey
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“Sisyphus thinks he can outwit death. But the company hive mind pings him relentlessly, even on weekends, and so he stares at his phone on a Saturday and misses his daughter score her first goal at a soccer game.”
—Pindar, Olympian Ode
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“Athena quietly adds Sisyphus to a sinister Google Doc called ‘Q3 brainstorm,’ which emails him whenever anyone comments on this document, which he does not desire and from which he cannot escape. The notifications may be silenced only in settings reserved for the Gods—and thus, not for Sisyphus.”
—Seneca the Younger, Hercules Furens
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“There, Sisyphus toils—straining to zero the inbox, only for Nathan to smite him with that cruelest of follow-ups: ‘Just checking if you saw this?’”
—Virgil, Aeneid
The problems of our time are too complex for heroes to swoop in and simply erase. Our movies should reflect that reality
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From Newton’s circle to Schrödinger’s curved geometry, we’ve yet to arrive at a perfect way to map colour
- by Aeon Video
Acting on impulse often feels good at first, but brings trouble later. Understanding these urges can help you control them
- by Peggilee Wupperman
I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday
- by Diana Saverin
While no progress was made towards a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers
One of the issues that emerges when one is studying undergraduate macroeconomics is that there is a curious disregard for the role that income and wealth distribution play in determining the aggregate outcomes, that are at the centre of the study. Most students in my cohort didn’t think about that and the curriculum certainly didn’t…
A book review from Inside Story: After The Spike by Spears and Geruso The most striking observation in Dean Spears and Michael Geruso’s new book, After the Spike, is summed up by the cover illustration, which shows a world population rising rapidly to its current eight billion before declining to pre-modern levels and eventually to zero. […]
Nowadays, when I go to an art gallery, it’s usually to play. One big reason for this is that I have two small children: pretty much the only things they do when they’re awake are play, eat, and, if not playing or eating, complain. Another reason is that I live near the BALTIC gallery in […]
Twenty eight year old Sydney based accounts assistant, Jeff Jones, has spent his week at work bemoaning to one and all how he has no interest in any of the weekends games of ‘sportsball’ as he calls it. Mr Jones... Read More ›
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The influence of the basic themes of the philosophy of history on the social-theoretic argument of the Dialectic of Enlightenment is so strong that Adorno and Horkheimer cannot but comprehend the socially oppressed subject as a passive and intention-less victim of the same techniques of domination that are aimed at nature. It seems as if […]
In the latest edition of DWM, Doctor Who icon Sylvester McCoy discussed traveling to Ukraine for FanCon to bring some hope to the fans there.
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Today, economics education has all but erased courses on the history of economic thought and economic methodology. This is not just an oversight — it is an intellectual crisis. A discipline that fails to reflect on its own foundations, that neglects to question its methods and assumptions, is a discipline in decline. History and methodology […]
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Arriving in November, BBC's "The Art of Time Travel" is a Doctor Who concept art book that showcases 20 years' worth of concept artwork.