Human brains comprehend symbols—geometry, basically—in ways unmatched by other primates or machine learning.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Few ancient paint palettes have been uncovered, but the ones we have teach us about painters’ roles in ancient civilizations.
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Two-thirds of young people in the UK miss lockdown. “[Lockdown] was an introvert’s paradise. I miss it immensely.”
↩︎ The Face
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Analysis: The Taliban’s backtracking on letting girls attend school suggests a better future for Afghanistan is a long way off.
↩︎ BBC News
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Librarians in many places are self-censoring, removing books—mostly LGBTQ- or race-related—before parents can protest them.
↩︎ The Washington Post
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An interesting conversation with a researcher who used drug-developing AI to identify 40,000 potentially lethal molecules.
↩︎ The Verge
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Rarely do communities have extreme loyalty to these platforms. If they don’t feel they’re being engaged with on a fair level, they take their friends and they get the hell out.
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“This is my pirate drag, basically.” Emma Stern brings virtual female characters to life with oil paint.
↩︎ Artforum
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