Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The public opening of the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT featured an open house during the day and an inaugural concert in the evening. The opening also was the launch of the Artfinity arts festival.

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and Western philosophies, and the joy of sound itself.

It highlights the role engineers play in fostering sustainability

A silver amulet found in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

Archive of the "eco disasters" section from the Dialectical Butterflies website. Very much a work in progress.

Much like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, who unleashed a flood by over-relying on enchanted brooms, we seem eager to offload responsibility onto AI while clinging to the illusion of control. In our quest for technological wizardry, research reveals that the presence of a manual mode often leads us to blame people more, even when AI is at fault.

Drawing a line from Faust to the GOP's young star.

Cabinetmaker to Marie Antoinette, Roentgen designed "surprise furniture," bureaus and desks that appeared to magically transform at the push of a button.

The Silicon Valley establishment has grown so suspicious and fearful of original and authentic belief.

Naomi Fry on the style and substance of Donald Trump's fund-raising e-mails, as he gears up for the 2024 Presidential election and battles indictments and lawsuits.

Masha Gessen writes about the Russian poet and essayist Lev Rubinstein, who has died at the age of seventy-six.

Copyright for Mickey, Minnie Mouse, and other characters in "Steamboat Willie" just expired

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How our culture, politics and technology became infused with a mysterious social phenomenon that everyone can feel but nobody can explain.

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A study returns to the case of a soldier injured during the Spanish Civil War who inspired doctor Justo Gonzalo's theory of the human brain

On the unexpected joys of Denglisch, Berlinglish & global Englisch. « My own language, made camp. »

As a member of the White Rose, a small anti-Nazi resistance group, she used peaceful tactics to try persuading Germans to turn against Hitler.

From America to Angola to Australia, almost everyone knows who Superman is. He's the first superhero, the mold from which all other superheroes are cast, where they get their "super" from. Along wi…

THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS Is like Greek philosophy: baffling.