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There’s a lot about Haruki Murakami’s latest novel that will sound familiar to readers of his work: an unusual other world that exists in parallel to the real world; a strange, walled town where people are cut off from their shadows; unicorns; dream readers. When I first read the summary for The City and Its… Continue reading What to read this weekend: A visual history of Futurama, and more

It’s “something that hasn’t been seen before in physics.” Everything Is Illuminated Lighten up, people: a fascinating new paper has dropped that describes the shape of a single photon, the smallest possible form of energy in an electromagnetic field that we commonly know as light. The work, published as a study in the journal Physical… Continue reading Scientists Say They’ve Discovered the Shape of Individual Photons

They discovered a “cocktail of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids, and alcohol” inside of a 2,000-year-old vase. Bes Up A team of researchers from the University of South Florida has discovered the first-ever physical evidence that ancient Egyptians got messed up on rowdy cocktails of hallucinogenic drugs. The findings add evidence to centuries-old myths surrounding the… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence That Ancient Egyptians Were Tripping Balls

It’s easy to be smug about AI “art” because, hey, doesn’t that stuff look like garbage? But the reality isn’t so simple. To the untrained eye, it seems that AI-generated images are more than just passable; in some cases, they seem to match up to the old masters themselves. That at least appears to be… Continue reading Even People Who Hate AI Art Appear to Actually Prefer AI Art in a Blind Test