On the morning of June 24, 1993, Yale University Professor David Gelernter arrived at his office on the fifth floor of the computer science department. He had just returned from vacation and was carrying a large stack of unopened mail.
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In one way or another, the superrich have always been trying to extend their lives. Ancient Egyptians crammed their tombs with everything they’d need to live on in an afterlife not unlike their own world, just filled with more fun. In the modern era, the ultra-wealthy have attempted to live on through their legacies: sponsoring museums and galleries to immortalize their names.
I am standing on the sand at Scheveningen, The Hague’s most famous beach resort, in the act of niksen, the Dutch term for doing absolutely nothing. I try not to think about whether I am really doing nothing if I am standing on a beach. Maybe I should be sitting down? But then I would be sitting down.
Artificial intelligence seems more powerful than ever, with chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT capable of producing uncannily humanlike text. But for all their talents, these bots still leave researchers wondering: Do such models actually understand what they are saying?
Thomé de Gamond’s plans for an underwater tunnel between England and France, produced for the World Exposition of 1867. The yellow circles, top left, represent an enormous spiral ramp allowing access to the tunnel from an international artificial island on the Varne sandbank — Source.
TODAY, the third Monday of January, has come to be known in the UK as "Blue Monday", the most depressing day of the year. The idea originated in 2005 via a press release issued by a travel company. Using a formula accounting for factors like weather, debt, post-holiday gloom, failed resolutions, low motivation, and the need for change, they calculated this date to be the saddest day of the year.
LAST WEEK I read an article about a couple who had such trouble staying offline when they wanted to be, that they did the most drastic thing they could think of: they disconnected their internet. They had a landline installed to make calls, and used the Yellow Pages to look up telephone numbers.
During a reading project I undertook to better understand the “third wave of democracy” — the remarkable and rapid rise of democracies in Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa in the 1970s and 80s — I came to realize that this ascendency of democratic polities was not the result of some force propelling history toward its natural, final state, as some scholars have argued.
OUR FIRST Christmas film this year wasn't actually one of our usual old favourites (Christmas Vacation for P, The Holiday for me⏤although we've seen them both so much now that we mainly put them on as background ambience), but The Holdovers...
“It turns out that I’m young, and I have a whole life of shit I can do,” she says. “Maybe because my life became so adult very young, I forgot that I was still that young. I settled in a lot of ways: I lived my life as if I were in my 70s. I realized recently that I don’t need to do that.”
In your brain, neurons are arranged in networks big and small. With every action, with every thought, the networks change: neurons are included or excluded, and the connections between them strengthen or fade.
A golden age of connectivity is ending. “I deleted my Facebook years ago, spend at least three to six months off Twitter every year, and Bluesky invites are just sitting in my inbox,” a friend tells me when I ask how her relationship to social media has changed in recent times.
Hampstead Canvas Tote
$525.00
This lightweight and durable leather-trimmed canvas tote bag was designed as an everyday, carry-all bag that can be used in the city or the countryside. Made from natural double fill cotton canvas, including two shoulder straps. Use it as a travel bag during trips to your favourite places to store all your essentials.
Materials: Double Fill Natural Cotton Canvas (Made in Germany), Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather
Colours: Ecru & British Tan / Midnight / Powder
Dimensions : 30 cm high x 38 cm wide x 14 cm
Handmade in our workshop in England
FOR OUR JAPANESE CUSTOMERS
レザートリムキャンバストートバッグ
都会や田舎で使える、日常使いのキャリーオールバッグとしてデザインされています。天然のダブルフィルコットンキャンバスを使用し、レザートリムが施されており、ショルダーストラップが2本とレザーベースが付いています。世界中を旅行する際に、すべての必需品を収納するための旅行用バッグとして使用できます。
WE ARE BACK with our Design History series, and this week, we’re taking a closer look at an essential material in modern manufacturing and construction: stainless steel.
This lightweight and durable leather-trimmed canvas tote bag was designed as an everyday, carry-all bag that can be used in the city or the countryside. Made from natural double fill cotton canvas and trimmed with leather, including two shoulder straps and a leather base. Use it as a travel bag during trips to your favourite places to store all your essentials.
Materials: Double Fill Natural Cotton Canvas (Made in Germany), Italian Vegetable Tanned Leather
Colours: Ecru & British Tan / Midnight / Powder
Dimensions : 32 cm high x 42 cm wide x 15 cm
Handmade in our workshop in England
FOR OUR JAPANESE CUSTOMERS
レザートリムキャンバストートバッグ
都会や田舎で使える、日常使いのキャリーオールバッグとしてデザインされています。天然のダブルフィルコットンキャンバスを使用し、レザートリムが施されており、ショルダーストラップが2本とレザーベースが付いています。世界中を旅行する際に、すべての必需品を収納するための旅行用バッグとして使用できます。