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Automatic speech recognition systems add age-inappropriate captions to children’s YouTube videos. An AI technology that will let you create digital images by describing what you want to see. In praise of the em dash. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” Improving the recyclability of flexible plastic packaging. Graphene may save lives. Required reading: “The Price of Nails Since 1695.” What was statistically the most boring day in history? Mushrooms spe...

Camp Prodigy by Caroline Palmer is a new middle-grade graphic novel, which has been successfully auctioned for publication in 2024. It will tell the story

Albert Einstein is dead. Bohemia, too, no longer exists. They have ascended to the realm of myths and legends, become words to conjure with—yet they are not, in general, invoked together.

Antique Maps of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of New England from the 17th to the 19th century.

The emerging field of “liquid electronics”—and graphene is there! Redesigning corporate logos with a Medieval theme. The Great ReShuffling: meet the new buzzword, same as the old buzzword. An actual, physical object will be the most expensive photograph, bizarrely. Google introduces Roboto Serif. Self-adjusting water-based eyeglasses—in low- and high-tech versions. Coca-Cola’s tepid approach to its refillable bottle program. Beam a 3D hologram of yourself with PORTL. An update on robot...

Today is Sticky Bun Day...

From the US revolutionary socialist paper Labor Action, July 10 1950 If your school-age son is somewhat better than clever in any field of science, you may have heard the expression: "He's an Einstein." It is indeed unprecedented that the name of a scientist working in highly specialised mathematical physics has become a by-word in the homes of his adopted land. This unique status of Albert Einstein rests not only on his scientific pre-eminence but also upon his keen interest in s...

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Such noise, such stink, such smoke there was, you’d swear The Tempest surely had been acted there. --anonymous poem, 1679. Restoration and Eighteenth ...

Astrophotography allows us all to become citizens of the cosmos.