Many male octopuses, to avoid being eaten during mating, will keep their bodies as far removed from the female as possible, extending a single arm with a sperm packet towards her siphon, a manoeuvre known as ‘the re…
An essay from 2018 by Laura Fridman about “pain language”—indicating to other people that we are still alive.
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“If Michelangelo saw the robots, he would tear out his hair.” Robots are sculpting marble in Italy.
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by The Tournament of Books Staff
This week we discuss the back half of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. If you thought the first half was fraught with ethical dilemmas, well, get ready to get thorny.
An interactive look at how much energy our inboxes consume.
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Connecting a love of the outdoors to a distaste for money, which is “dirty, unenlightened, unspiritual.”
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Minnesota asks people not to release goldfish into the wild, where they can grow over a foot long and threaten indigenous species.
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“That’s what the label pays the TikTok people to dance to.” Theories for why there are so many guitars in contemporary hip-hop.
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On summer afternoons, tiny worms emerge from the glaciers of the Northwest—maybe to soak up sun rays, though no one really knows.
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