Why human attempts to mechanize logic keep breaking down.
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My generation of filmmakers shook up cinema forever. Where are history’s periodic surges of creativity taking us?
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Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Barker, editor of the Fremantle Shipping News, to chat about technology and the human condition. We went deep!
John Mitchinson explores how a 600-year-old poem by an unknown poet can reset our moral compass
"The pace and pathway for an amicable resolution of Kanaky-New Caledonia’s decolonisation challenges cannot, and must not continue to be dictated in Paris."
Renée Bergland’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.
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An accident of lighting uncovers Jewish, European, and Islamic origins.
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A radical theory that pagan cults gave rise to early Christianity.
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Clair Wills has long been among the most supple and illuminating explorers of the intertwined cultural histories of Ireland and Britain. She works in the intersections between social experience and literary representation, giving as much weight to supposedly ordinary lives as to momentous political events and artistic movements. That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland During […]
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"The island closest to paradise has become the island closest to hell."