| Saturday, January 4th, 2014 |
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Evgeny Morozov http://www.aldaily.com How did a kid from Belarus become an Internet buzzkill? Evgeny Morozov likens his polemics to grenades. “In five years, I am returning in a tank”… more» |
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Emotion, Morality, Politics http://www.aldaily.com We are born social, wired to be tribal, prone to conflict with those who hold different values. Is a universal moral philosophy possible?… more» |
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Beware Roboticism http://www.aldaily.com Roboticism holds that computers are the measure of man. It is the opposite of humanism, says David Gelernter, and it’s a social disease… more» |
| Friday, January 3rd, 2014 |
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Hemingway’s Letters http://www.aldaily.com Hemingway, wary of distraction, focused on essentials: “fighting and eating and drinking and begging and stealing and living and dying”… more» |
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The Bizarre Battle Over the Remains of Richard III http://www.aldaily.com The discovery of Richard III beneath a parking lot in Leicester prompted not only a media frenzy but also a bizarre battle over the royal remains… more» |
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Inglorious Revolutions http://www.aldaily.com Revolution is often a messy, bloody, drawn-out affair. Indeed, exhaustion and disillusionment are what allow democracy to take root… more» |
| Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 |
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Proust, a funny genius http://www.aldaily.com A little Proust can be too much. “Nobody told me he was a mental defective,” said Evelyn Waugh, who was immune to Proustian humor… more» |
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Daggers of Jorge Luis Borges http://www.aldaily.com Man of steel. As a young man, Jorge Luis Borges sought the company of knife fighters. He even carried his own blade, later inspiring some of his finest fiction… more» |
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Roth unbound http://www.aldaily.com Philip Roth met Primo Levi in 1986. Months later, Levi was dead. “It hit me like the assassinations of the 60s,” Roth says… more» |
| Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 |
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Artificial Intelligence has grown up http://www.aldaily.com Alan Turing predicted that computers would be able to think by 2000. No dice. Not even close. We still don’t understand what thinking is… more» |
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Museums and technology http://www.aldaily.com Audio guides, apps, multimedia: Museum-going is ever more mediated by technology. But attempts to woo audiences with razzle-dazzle can be alienating… more» |
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On postcolonial theory http://www.aldaily.com The ideas of a few South Asian historians snowballed into an influential concept: Subaltern studies. What have they wrought?… more» |
| Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 |
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Extinction of passenger pigeon http://www.aldaily.com How did the population of passenger pigeons drop from billions to zero in less than 50 years? Jonathan Rosen explains: They tasted good… more» |
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Split personalities http://www.aldaily.com “A jest,” said Freud, “betrays something serious.” Chaplin, Pryor, Belushi, Grimaldi the clown. Are comedy and happiness incompatible?… more» |
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Making Up Hollywood http://www.aldaily.com Making up Hollywood. Brick dust and paprika, petroleum jelly and vegetable shortening, flour and white paint. Enter Max Factor… more» |
| Monday, December 30th, 2013 |
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On Lawrence Buell http://www.aldaily.com The Great American Novel is mocked as a foolhardy notion, reeking as it does of hubris. But the American fetishization of fiction persists. Why?… more» |
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Lunch with Élisabeth Badinter http://www.aldaily.com “I have a bizarre feminism!” says Élisabeth Badinter, who leads a decades-long assault on the idea of maternal instinct… more» |
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Essays by Craig Raine http://www.aldaily.com Forget pen and paper – literary critics employ scalpels, hand grenades, and dynamite. “Hatchet job” doesn’t begin to describe their work… more» |
| Saturday, December 28th, 2013 |
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On Tennyson http://www.aldaily.com Tennyson was a bore at dinner parties with his many prominent friends, who endured recitations of his latest, longest poems… more» |
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Saving the art of conversation http://www.aldaily.com We communicate more now than ever: email, text, tweet, Facebook. No boring bits in making a point. But is efficiency at the expense of conversation?… more» |