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Are the real questions not eternal and almost all answers provisional? It is easy to formulate questions, isn’t it? Children love it, philosophers love it – don’t they? Does this suggest there is a deep connection between philosophers and children? What could it be? That both like to be amazed maybe? That they find the world amazing? That they try to look at the world as new, or to the old world afresh, as flabbergasting, full of questions and questionable things? Aren’t questions the b...

Image: PM Images/Getty Images Keller Easterling is an architect, designer, and author whose works traverse a wide range of spaces. I came to her work as someone interested in complex systems — a topic that Easterling, a professor of architecture at Yale, has been writing about for decades. She has written about everything from the Appalachian Trail (in Organization Space) to North Korea’s demilitarized zone ( Enduring Innocence) to special economic zones and broadband infrastructure ( Extr...

When Italian professor Damiano Benvegnù came to Dartmouth, he saw a divide between the sciences and humanities where there should have been a bridge. Particularly in response to the climate crisis, he noted that the cry for change is interdisciplinary — incorporating a diverse dialogue of voices from policy to poetry to art to science.

First instalment of The World Around virtual summit to feature talks on storytelling Dezeen 30/01/2021 © Provided by Dezeen Ya No Estoy Aqui by Fernando Frias In partnership with The World Around, Dezeen is broadcasting a programme of live talks featuring Ryue Nishizawa, Liam Young, Alice Rawsthorn and more. Watch here from 3:00pm London time (10:00am New York time.) The first instalment of the day-long summit, which will be streamed on Dezeen in three parts, will feature a diverse range o...

Caroline Tracey At the start of the COVID-19 quarantine, I moved into my girlfriend’s apartment, a renovated garage in a triangle of blocks where three Mexico City neighborhoods come together. We share it with Lázaro, a handsome, anxious, black-and-brown half greyhound that Mariana adopted four years ago after a friend found him curled up under a truck. We quickly took on a slower, quieter pace of life. We spent long mornings reading in bed, drinking coffee, and snuggling with Lázaro. We ma...

Emily Hansell Clark , January 23rd, 2021 09:55 In an exclusive extract from the new journal Focus on Sound, edited by Nicholas Burman, Emily Hansell Clark explores the sensory history of imperialism and enslavement The sensory faculties – seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting – played a crucial role in the flurry of European exploration that began in the fifteenth century. Making sense of encounters in Africa, Asia, and the Americas required expanding the limits of the known to e...

Toward better tech journalism “Could technology journalists be in service of something better than more speech, improved content moderation, unbiased algorithms, and consensual surveillance capitalism?” Continuing Nieman Lab’s tradition of expressing hopes as predictions, I see an even better kind of technology journalism rising in 2021. Reporting on how technology shapes and reflects social, political, economic, and cultural life has improved greatly in recent years. Coverage has moved f...