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Category: Culture

Review: ‘Love, Death & Robots’ 3 (2022)

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“Embrace the suck.”

June 5, 2022 Culture

Hail the Royal Society

A white building of Victorian architecture is visible against grey clouds.
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The Royal Society’s appointment of its first Brazilian member since 1871 brings an underappreciated form of our colonial hangover to the fore.

May 14, 2022 Culture, Science

Why there’s no guarantee that Musk’s Twitter will resemble Dorsey’s

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Many folks are saying they’re not going to leave Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition because Musk and Jack Dorsey aren’t different.

April 26, 2022 Culture, Op-eds, Tech

TV ads are becoming creepy

Have you watched the new ads of Magicpin, Instamart, Rapido and PharmEasy?

March 31, 2022 Culture

Lord of the Rings Day

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War is on our minds, and in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth saga, there were many of them.

March 25, 2022 Culture

A Brahmin wedding

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I was at a wedding this weekend. It had a distinct Omelas-like quality throughout. For most of the […]

March 13, 2022 Culture

Climate change, like quantum physics, will strain language

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One of the defining features of quantum mechanics is that it shows up human language, and thought supported […]

March 10, 2022 Culture, Science

Art is something for cryptocurrencies to con

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Cryptocurrencies have emerged as a way to fund art, and therefore supposedly support artists, using the Trojan horse of NFTs.

February 22, 2022 Analysis, Culture

Streaming now: the 24/7 human centipede

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Have you heard of ‘Bigg Boss Ultimate’?

February 19, 2022 Culture

Marie Curie: An icon or ‘in the way’?

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Who would have been the most iconic woman physicist of all time if the Nobel Prizes didn’t exist?

February 16, 2022 Analysis, Culture, Science

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