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Ah. Over the years, artists, writers, and filmmakers have tried to answer that question, creating some dazzling works of Science Fiction in the process. But are the higher dimensions we see in scifi really fiction . Meet maggie, scientist by day and scifi fanatic by night. Maggies watching a 1950s film about scientists who invent a device that catapults them into the Fourth Dimension, where they can walk through walls and read minds. Like the rest of us, maggie lives in a threedimensional world....

It’s only January 3, but one thing is clear already: 2024 is going to be the Year of Reading Proust. Everyone, but everyone, on social media is boasting of their firm resolution to do so. The great Ryan Ruby has just published this fine piece on our favorite bedridden French mama’s boy. I thought in light of all of this now would be a good time to share with my free subscribers the big “Proust piece” I myself wrote in 2021.

(1) PRESIDENT’S DAY WEEKEND. Get ready for Boskone 60, coming February 17-19, 2023 in Boston – and via the internet. The convention’s guests are Nalo Hopkinson - Guest of Honor; Victo Ngai - Official Artist; Tui T. Sutherland - Special Guest; and Dave Clement - Musical Guest. Full information at the link. Boskone 60 will be held in person

Aristotle was tutor to Alexander the Great. You could be the tutor of Aristotle. And thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was one of the greatest intellects of all time. But you know far more. You have a deeper, more penetrating, more comprehensive understanding of the way the world wo ...

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An irresistible history of the OED reveals that English is a global language in its sources, its reach and its ownership.

Article: Flatland - Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness Sri Aurobindo, who used his own consciousness as a laboratory, discovered and described the following levels of awareness, which he expected to flower as we evolve: Ordinary egoic mind, Higher mind, Illumined mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, Supermind.

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Popular text-to-image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have introduced what some believe to be a new creative frontier in the architectural design process. However, they also encourage us to reflect on a series of relationships at the heart of design, representation, and...

Many of us have read books that changed the way we look at the world.