A Search for Meaning, A Quest for Purpose - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Bonnie McCune·2h ago
by Bonnie McCune “The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” —Robert Louis Stevenson Over what is slowly becoming a lengthy session of being alive...
AI is the Latest and Best-Financed Cult to Emerge from California - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby David Hoyt·3h ago
by David Hoyt Had the historian of California, Mike Davis, lived long enough to take in the spectacle of the AI boom, he very well may have seen a through line to earlier hybrids of unvarnished...
The rise and fall of Carlos the Jackal, the notorious terrorist-for-hire - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·1d ago
Dwight Garner at the New York Times: Carlos the Jackal, the international terrorist, was vain. He wore nipped-waist suits, Italian loafers, fine neckties and sometimes, in a nod to his hero Che...
How do we model the future of work? It takes an AI village - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·1d ago
Christine Kozobarich at Asterisk: A little over a year ago, a group of researchers asked: What would happen if we created an AI society?
The Final Novel Of Danish Author Tove Ditlevsen - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis·1d ago
Janique Vigier at Bookforum: THE PERSONAL AD is a tried-and-true deus ex machina for novelists who write about desperate figures.
What caused the global populist wave? It’s the Internet, Stupid - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·1d ago
Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: Ever since the year 2016, when Britain voted for Brexit and Trump was elected president, social scientists, journalists, pundits, and almost everyone else have been...
Life of M by Rachel Cusk - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis·1d ago
Clare Clark at The Guardian: In this post-saturation era of social media exposure, the intersection of appearance and authenticity has been exhaustively picked over.
Friday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny·1d ago
Buddha I used to sit under trees and meditate on the diamond bright silence of darkness and the bright look of diamonds in space and space that was stiff with lights and diamonds shot through, and...
The Greatest Short Story Writers of All Time - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Azra Raza·1d ago
Dan Sinykin in Substack: In May I was invited to write an essay on the short story. I said yes and then asked myself what I know about the genre.
How Scientists Are Fighting Food Waste with Phages, Silk, and More - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Azra Raza·1d ago
Mariella Cariaga in The Scientist: In today’s world, food hunger and insecurity are not due to lack of food.
Please help keep 3QD going! - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·2d ago
Dear Reader, 3QD is still curated entirely by human editors and writers trying to keep a serious intellectual corner of the internet alive.
When Liberalism Meets a Person: What Freedom Alone Fails to See - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Paweł Skała-Piękoś·2d ago
by Paweł Skała-Piękoś Thomas R. Wells that nearly everyone hates neoliberalism, and that we will miss it all the same once it is gone.
Reading The Bible Is Turning Me Into An Atheist - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Eric Schenck·2d ago
by Eric Schenck I started reading the Bible after Easter of this year. Five months later, I’m about halfway through- And still waiting for my spiritual epiphany.
Fifty Years of Dreams—Surrealism at the Frist - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·2d ago
Leann Davis Alspaugh at Acroteria: It is worth remembering that Surrealism was originally a literary movement, one, as Breton wrote, founded on “pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to...
Machine learning of artistic fingerprints in jazz - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·2d ago
Huw Cheston, Reuben Bance & Peter M. C. Harrison in Nature: Artists are often recognizable through collections of distinctive patterns (‘fingerprints’) in their work.
Saloni Dattani: We’ve solved many medical mysteries. Where are the cures? - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·2d ago
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Two systems of catastrophic power have escaped the cages we built to contain them - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·2d ago
Claire Berlinski at The Cosmopolitan Globalist: We’re now facing a system of grave, correlated hazards unlike any our species has previously confronted.
Disappearing Ink: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis·2d ago
Karen Detlefsen at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: In his preface to this volume of Eileen O’Neill’s collected essays, Gary Ostertag notes two book projects that O’Neill discussed writing: one on...
Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis·2d ago
Maria Popova at The Marginalian: Not often — a handful of times in a lifetime, if you are lucky — you come upon a work of thought and feeling — a book, a painting, a song — that becomes a fountain...
Thursday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny·2d ago
It’s Alright Ma Darkness at the break of noon Shadows even the silver spoon The handmade blade, the child’s balloon Eclipses both the sun and moon To understand you know too soon there is no sense...
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