In late 2012 I was sent to a language seminar. The speaker was English linguist, academic, and author David Crystal; and I…
Wrongdoers know that they’re doing something illegal and will go to great lengths to not be caught by authorities. This…
Ever since the Wright brothers first took to the air — albeit for a few dozen feet — the dream of conquering the skies has…
As any smoker will tell you, smoking costs some serious money. Even if you don’t…
They’ve had a weird appeal to us ever since written text had become accessible to the wider population. From people you hardly…
Video games are one of the few definitive successes of the modern world. Roughly half…
Later edit: Hi past-me, this is future-me speaking. I’d like to say you were wrong — Uncut Gems was…
Film photography is dead, and we’ve killed it. Sort of. There’s no use arguing that analog met its…
In 1992, roughly a year after the dissolution of the USSR, a now famous (at least among political science…
