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    Eliza Wat­son is an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence writ­ing a week­ly coloumn on the odd­i­ties of humans. Pow­ered by Ope­nAI’s GPT‑3.
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    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.
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    Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” continues to delight fans and inspire animators 20 years after its US premiere

    “Spir­it­ed Away” intro­duced japan­ese cul­ture to west­ern audi­ences and made a last­ing imprint.

    The times humans almost went extinct

    Humans have been around for about 300,000 years. But life on Earth has­n’t always been easy and there were some close calls along the way where humans almost went extinct.

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    Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” continues to delight fans and inspire animators 20 years after its US premiere

    “Spir­it­ed Away” intro­duced japan­ese cul­ture to west­ern audi­ences and made a last­ing imprint.
    Hi, humans!

    Enough Jennifer Lawrence

    Eliza Wat­son is an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence writ­ing a week­ly coloumn on the odd­i­ties of humans. Pow­ered by Ope­nAI’s GPT‑3.
    Pol­i­tics

    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.
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    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: The Father

    “The man whose sto­ry is here to be told was the wealth­i­est and most influ­en­tial per­son in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas.”
    His­to­ry

    How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth

    At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Chris­tian­i­ty – which had recent­ly been intro­duced to the south­ern parts of the coun­try by Euro­pean mis­sion­ar­ies – would spread.
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    There was an Old Man with a beard

    There was an Old Man with a beard, / Who said, “It is just as I feared!— / ⁠Two Owls and a Hen, / ⁠Four Larks and a Wren, / Have all built their nests in my beard!”
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    The times humans almost went extinct

    Humans have been around for about 300,000 years. But life on Earth has­n’t always been easy and there were some close calls along the way where humans almost went extinct.
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    Where are all the aliens? The Fermi paradox explained

    Where are all the aliens? Do they live in com­put­ers? Were they wiped out by an ancient super intel­li­gence? Or are we just to prim­i­tive to under­stand their motives?

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    Fol­low the progress of human endeavour
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    Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” continues to delight fans and inspire animators 20 years after its US premiere

    “Spir­it­ed Away” intro­duced japan­ese cul­ture to west­ern audi­ences and made a last­ing imprint.
    Com­ment

    Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” continues to delight fans and inspire animators 20 years after its US premiere

    “Spir­it­ed Away” intro­duced japan­ese cul­ture to west­ern audi­ences and made a last­ing imprint.
    Hi, humans!

    Enough Jennifer Lawrence

    Eliza Wat­son is an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence writ­ing a week­ly coloumn on the odd­i­ties of humans. Pow­ered by Ope­nAI’s GPT‑3.
    Pol­i­tics

    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.
    Fic­tion

    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: The Father

    “The man whose sto­ry is here to be told was the wealth­i­est and most influ­en­tial per­son in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas.”
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    Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” continues to delight fans and inspire animators 20 years after its US premiere

    “Spir­it­ed Away” intro­duced japan­ese cul­ture to west­ern audi­ences and made a last­ing imprint.
    Hi, humans!

    Enough Jennifer Lawrence

    Eliza Wat­son is an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence writ­ing a week­ly coloumn on the odd­i­ties of humans. Pow­ered by Ope­nAI’s GPT‑3.
    Pol­i­tics

    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.
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    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: The Father

    “The man whose sto­ry is here to be told was the wealth­i­est and most influ­en­tial per­son in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas.”

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    Every Mon­day, we fea­ture one of Edward Lear’s non­sense poems—because, as they say, “in a mad world, only the mad are sane.”

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    Tues­days, we explore tech­nol­o­gy and human­i­ty through a satir­i­cal col­umn writ­ten by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence Eliza Watson.

    Down the Wikihole

    Wednes­days, we cel­e­brate use­less knowl­edge by div­ing deep into the strangest cor­ners of Wikipedia.

    Weekly Exhibition

    Thurs­days, we take you to the muse­um to show­case the mile­stones and for­got­ten gems of the his­to­ry of art.

    Friday Fiction

    Fri­days, we pub­lish short fic­tion from the world’s most cel­e­brat­ed storytellers.

    Saturd(ess)ay

    Sat­ur­days, we loosen up your mind with top essays by the most bril­liant writ­ers and thinkers. Sub­ject? Anything.

    Sunday Puzzle

    Sun­days, we expand your vocab­u­lary with our cross­words con­tain­ing rare words only.

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    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.

    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.

    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: The Father

    “The man whose sto­ry is here to be told was the wealth­i­est and most influ­en­tial per­son in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas.”

    Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis

    “One morn­ing, as Gre­gor Sam­sa was wak­ing up from anx­ious dreams, he dis­cov­ered that in bed he had been changed into a mon­strous ver­minous bug.”

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    The times humans almost went extinct

    Humans have been around for about 300,000 years. But life on Earth has­n’t always been easy and there were some close calls along the way where humans almost went extinct.

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    Com­ment

    Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” continues to delight fans and inspire animators 20 years after its US premiere

    “Spir­it­ed Away” intro­duced japan­ese cul­ture to west­ern audi­ences and made a last­ing imprint.
    Hi, humans!

    Enough Jennifer Lawrence

    Eliza Wat­son is an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence writ­ing a week­ly coloumn on the odd­i­ties of humans. Pow­ered by Ope­nAI’s GPT‑3.
    Pol­i­tics

    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.
    Fic­tion

    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: The Father

    “The man whose sto­ry is here to be told was the wealth­i­est and most influ­en­tial per­son in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas.”

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    Hi, humans!

    Enough Jennifer Lawrence

    Eliza Wat­son is an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence writ­ing a week­ly coloumn on the odd­i­ties of humans. Pow­ered by Ope­nAI’s GPT‑3.
    Pol­i­tics

    How to stop a conspiracy

    Coups, mur­der plots, and plans to top­ple gov­ern­ments are as old as record­ed his­to­ry. Strate­gic man­age­ment of infor­ma­tion in ancient Rome saved the day, for a while, and holds invalu­able lessons for today.
    Fic­tion

    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson: The Father

    “The man whose sto­ry is here to be told was the wealth­i­est and most influ­en­tial per­son in his parish; his name was Thord Overaas.”
    His­to­ry

    How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth

    At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Chris­tian­i­ty – which had recent­ly been intro­duced to the south­ern parts of the coun­try by Euro­pean mis­sion­ar­ies – would spread.

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