• Technology

    The Hub

    I asked ChatGPT to write its own versions of iconic poems, and they are… not great!

     
    By Jessie Gaynor  November 18, 2024
    AI

    HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.

    By Drew Broussard  November 18, 2024
    The Hub

    Six newsletters to get you through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  November 11, 2024
    American West

    A Golden Land? Questioning Frontiers, Fantasies and Fulfillment in the Pacific Northwest

    By Rachel Greenley  October 28, 2024
    Cars

    The “People’s Car.” How Nazi Germany Created the Volkswagen Beetle

    By Witold Rybczynski  October 8, 2024
    Book Bans

    “Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas.” The Incendiary Power of Literature in an Era of Censorship

    By Kenneth C. Davis  October 8, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Video Games

    Mundane Preaching: On the Shortfalls of “Awareness Raising” Video Games

    By Marijam Did  October 4, 2024
    The Hub

    Attention Austen fans: Now you can have tea with Lizzy Bennet, IRL.

    By Brittany Allen  September 30, 2024
    The Hub

    Looking for what to watch this weekend? Try your favorite authors’ favorite films.

    By Brittany Allen  September 27, 2024
    Trump Administration

    I read the government graphic novels Elon Musk thinks are a waste of money.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 18, 2024
    Book Covers

    Experiments With ChatGPT: Why Artificial Intelligence Can’t Replace Human Creativity

    By Linda Huang  September 20, 2024
    Publishing

    Posting Truth to Power: In Praise of a Publishing Gossip Site

    By Maris Kreizman  September 12, 2024
    The Hub

    The Internet Archive lost their latest appeal. Here’s what that means for you.

    By Brittany Allen  September 6, 2024
    Travel

    Little Free Library has a new map to help places hit hardest by book bans.

    By James Folta  September 5, 2024
    Mothers and Sons

    Nothing’s Ever Lost: Can AI Help Us Remember Our Departed Loved Ones?

    By Bryan VanDyke  September 4, 2024
    The Hub

    NaNoWriMo defends writing with AI and pisses off the whole internet.

    By James Folta  September 3, 2024
    The West

    What Red Dead Redemption II Reveals About Our Myths of the American West

    By Tore C. Olsson  August 28, 2024
    Technology

    The 20th-Century Technological Debate That Foretold Our 21st-Century Fears

    Andrew Smith on the Competing Predictions of Edsger Dijkstra and Douglas Engelbart

    By Andrew Smith  August 22, 2024
    Space!

    Elon Musk is Sending His Garbage Into Space (with All the Other Trash)

    By Iris Gottlieb  August 19, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    Can Computers Create? A Short History of Mechanized Artistic Ambition

    By Mark Graham, Callum Cant and James Muldoon  August 12, 2024
    Reading Lists

    Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

    By Helen Phillips  August 7, 2024
    Climate Crisis

    Why Methane Removal Might Be Our Best Bet to Stop Rising Global Temperatures

    Rob Jackson Suggests Ways Businesses, Scientists and Governments Can Work Together to Clean the Atmosphere

    By Rob Jackson  August 5, 2024
    Energy

    Atomic Fallacy: Why Nuclear Power Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

    By M.V. Ramana  July 29, 2024
    On Memoir

    What the All-American Delusion of the Polygraph Says About Our Relationship to Fact and Fiction

    By Justin St. Germain  July 15, 2024
    Robots

    Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Over the World Anytime Soon

    By Nicole Kobie  September 26, 2024
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