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"Still, she was enjoying the class, and it was probably why she'd dreamed of a Jvichoru song, even if she couldn't figure out how her brain had produced it." "Maghda's Song" is a short fantasy story by Eleanor Glewwe, published in 2022 in Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Glewwe is a linguist and musician, and notes, "There is also a cat, if you need...

Highbrow horror cinema has won respectability—but sold its soul. (slTheBaffler)Horror fans, get ready to rumble with this article! Also, Longlegs was perfectly fine but not the scariest movie of the year. Not by a long shot.

"Broadway intersects 59th Street and Central Park West. This was formally called Grand Circle and also just The Circle. [ ] Broadway has actually been a thoroughfare in New York City long before Central Park existed. In fact, it goes back to before the city was called New York, and even before it was called New Amsterdam. The native Lenape people living on this...

You, too, can strengthen English and write good. "...First, we must not allow new verbs to enter the language in a weak state. We must ensure, for example, that to clone is established as clone, clewn, clown, as in: Future generations of booksellers may reproach us for not having clown Joyce Carol Oates and Isaac Asimov."

Social Communication is a site dedicated to helping people improve their ability to communicate with others. We hope to provide straight talk about talk, tone, and other ways humans form and maintain social relationships, for people with social communication challenges. We recommend you start by reading more about social communication in general, but you might also be interested in how this site is organized...

Meet Johnathan, the AI-powered camera, just one type of new technology saving the ocean's endangered animals. It is often said AI will take the jobs humans should be doing — but in this case, the human researchers are happy enough to pass on the job of scanning thousands of hours of recordings made deep in the Southern Ocean, freeing them up for the pursuit...

André Malraux's Theory of Art - Challenges to Traditional Aesthetics A brief essay on André Malraux's answers to the 20th century transformation of aesthetics and what qualifies as art.Rendered in authentic Web 1.0 style.

Laurie Anderson has a new work out. Amelia [YT Playlist] explores the life of Amelia Earhart. She discusses it here for about a half hour, if you're so inclined.

Eric Adams Is Indicted in New York [archive] "The indictment is sealed, and it was unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams, a Democrat, will face or when he will surrender to the authorities. Federal prosecutors are expected to announce the details of the indictment on Thursday."

A UCLA professor is suing six major academic publishers for violating antitrust law. The proposed class action claims that Elsevier, Wiley, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wolters Kluwer "conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would have otherwise funded scientific research" by not paying for peer review, banning simultaneous submissions to multiple journals, and preventing scholars from freely sharing their work.An...

AP/PBS investigative series (part one, part two, interactive; full length documentary)on how (esp in the 1970s & 80s) the international adoption agencies, the governments of South Korea AND the receiving countries (esp. in Scandinavia and North America) met the demand for adoptable children by turning children with families into "abandoned" kids available for export. Though the stated intention of adoption was to spare children...

It's natural to focus on successful teams: Winning is, after all, the point of every game, the reason we have scoreboards in the first place. But we remember the truly great teams far more than we remember the regular everyday champions: to be the best at something will make you immortal. It thus stands to reason that being the best at losing is also...

The brazen heist, which made international headlines, occurred during a COVID-19-related lockdown in Ottawa some time between Christmas Day 2021 and Jan. 6, 2022, the hotel determined. No one was in the building during that period. The photo had been gifted to the hotel by Karsh himself and had been on public display at the Château for decades until it was removed from the...

A person has died for the first time in euthanasia campaigner Dr.Philip Nitschke's suicide machine, the Sarco, in Switzerland. The Sarco machine is in effect a mini gas chamber which fills with nitrogen, an inert non-poisonous gas, after the person who wants to die has entered, closes the lid and presses a button, leading to a painless drug-free death without medical assistance. Nevertheless, several...

Nari Nari Tribal Council looks to wind farm to restore culture and country in New South Wales. A traditional owners' group strikes an agreement that could see it become an equity partner in a renewable energy project proposed for their land in the state's south west. Only one per cent of renewable developments in Australia involve Indigenous ownership, compared with 20 per cent in...

Highlighting all the small but powerful steps you've taken to conserve energy over the past few months (and how that energy has instead been used to fuel the insatiable beast that is AI).

Nowadays, we have a different appetite or tolerance for scientists who had mystical beliefs. We have become increasingly tolerant of his heretical views, which have seemed less problematic. Sometimes, people can still get very upset about the alchemy. But there's actually very little that he left of his own work in alchemy. Most of it is copies of other people's stuff that he indexed...

UFO 50 is an anthology collection of 50 games made by the fictional company UFO Soft in the 8-bit era.The project (official website) was conceived by Derek Yu of Spelunky (prev) and Jon Perry (best known for work on board games, including Air Land and Sea, with the team growing to six during development. Genres span include the traditional (point-and-click horror adventure Night Manor,...

I'm sorry, but this fart by horse Sven is epic in a way that will delight 3-year-olds for hours. And probably a few adults too.

The U.S. military's admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history. "Much of this tendency to imagine U.S. soldiers as Spartan warriors comes from Steven Pressfield's historical fiction novel Gates of Fire, still regularly assigned in military reading lists. The book presents the Spartans as superior warriors from an ultra-militarized society bravely defending freedom (against an ethnically foreign "other," a feature drawn...

"Wendy and Lisa are veteran composers and singer-songwriters. They were integral members of Prince's Revolution ...They talk with us about their 40-plus year partnership, and their Emmy award-winning work as composers. They'll reflect on their childhood friendship and the work their fathers contributed as members of The Wrecking Crew. And of course, what it was like to collaborate with Prince, and work on some...

Mirrors in Movies: How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear. When a camera takes a shot full-on of a character facing a mirror, you don't see the camera in the reflection. How do they do that? An entertaining look at the tricky techniques.Part 2