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Assume You Will Be Hacked . “As AI tools have become extremely good at writing code, they’ve also become extremely good at pulling off cyberattacks. The result has been a change in the scale, speed, and sophistication of hacks…”
Why Lionel Messi is a genius on the football pitch .
The 16 bones that would rewrite history – on the site in Germany where we began to understand Neanderthals, and ourselves - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The duckling family found waddling at the Manhattan museum, Art Basel impressions, and Kim Dacres’s rubber art.
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself - by Martin Puchner Read on Aeon
The people whose private fixations become a way of seeing, remembering, and caring for the world.
[A long riff on book publishing with (perhaps) wide applicability to your work as well.] Publishing is different from writing—it’s the hard work of creating the conditions to help people get in sync, move forward, and get to where they’re headed. The best reason to publish a
The ill-fated romance of Abelard and Héloïse may be a permanent cultural fixture, but it’s worth asking what any of us understand about Abelard or Héloïse themselves. Before the two ever crossed paths, Peter Abelard was already a celebrated philosopher in France whose classes
From Newton’s mechanical calculations to Einstein’s general and special relativity to the baffling indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, the discipline of physics has become increasingly arcane and complex, and less and less governed by orderly laws. This presents a problem for
This is kind of fantastic: Ribbie lets you watch actual MLB baseball games “rendered pitch by pitch in a cozy 8-bit view while they happen”. Ribbie is a simple way to keep a live baseball game nearby. It shows the score, the bases, the count, and a tiny pixel field that moves
As the nation marks 250 years, exhibitions explore artists’ interpretations of the American flag, Joan Miró’s printmaking, collage as critique, Black design, Pueblo pottery, and more.
Full set of Underworld playing live at EDC Las Vegas back in May.
The artists sculpts community tributes from found tires, inspired by its reslience and ability to absorb trauma.
The artist, who uses scavenged auto parts, is concerned not just with materials but with what they reveal about the worlds they inhabit.
For most exhibitors at the Swiss art fair this year, the answer is not spectacle, but rather laser focus.
This week, we honor a painter who made the everyday otherworldly, a poet-photographer, and a champion of Black artists.
A digital clock where the numbers are made from dozens of analog clock hands . Hard to describe…just go take a look.
One of his subjects was a cousin I never knew. I wanted to learn more about the large-scale portraits that helped define the English artist's legacy
On his YouTube channel , Thomas Whichello reads interesting literature aloud, often in the original languages, dialects, or accents, with the goal of making “classic works intelligible and enjoyable to everybody”. One of his most popular videos is his recitation of book 1 of
Robert Kuzovkov, known by the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, was reportedly shot after protesting near the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just how little Jeopardy contestants know about Black history, culture, and celebrities . (See also, of course, Black Jeopardy , which drives home a similar point in a different way.)
"We may know that nothing lasts forever, but this knowledge doesn’t alleviate the loneliness of grief."
For the first time in hundreds of years, two collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been brought together online at the Leonardotheka . In some cases, pages that were cut apart centuries ago have been digitally joined so we can see the full pages again, as Leonardo
It is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolutionary diagram of the upright ape than like a Russian nesting doll, our prior selves not outgrown but
From cows sculpted out of butter to seed art and crazy foods, ingenuity is as much a part of the tradition as showcasing time-honored practices. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little
"GPS is critical to everything from shipping to warfare. Tricking it is ridiculously easy."
A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that naturalist David Attenborough has worked on in his career (1954-present) . “Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you’re looking for.”