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admissible evidence : AI translations of animal vocalisations in the court room and other assorted legal stupidity   mulholland drive : th...

Via Clive Thompson’s latest Linkfest , we are afforded the chance to revisit the myth of Hermaphroditus through modern scientific conjec...

As NPR reports , twenty-six new sites from all over the world have been inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage ( see previous...

Realising the resonance of revelation seems less abstract now than in more peaceful and sanguine times, a special exhibition put togeth...

A recently excavated domus of an elite family in Pompeii ( previously )—so named above for a fresco in one room depicting a part of the m...

tvwishes : a reappraisal of digital preservation—via Waxy   wasp 121β : ultra hot Jupiter exoplanet has a uniquely layered and roiling at...

Having pinned the obsession with our devices and the dopamine hits that they provide to the allegory of Narcissus —and by extension a Sis...

Mapped onto all sorts of anti-social behaviour and privations of gluttony, the real and reputed ὀψοφάγοɩ, gourmandise of ancient Greek c...

Via Clive Thompson’s trusty alternative to doomscrolling , we learn that pioneering electronic composer Vangelis ( see previously ) has ...

Two weeks ahead of the introduction of the new currency, the mints of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union began on this ...

Having recently learned about the origin stories of some of the characters of the Illiad and how these narratives would have been known to...

Having to unfortunately access our dear Blört by proxy (get me to a hotspot, anon, and wishing a belated, incredible twenty-fourth blogove...

urban glitch : a series of nostalgic, hyper-detailed paintings from Jeff Bartels  ganz kleine nachtmusik : a previously unknown work by Mo...

Disembarking this day in 1954 from Marseilles with a retinue of over one hundred royal dignitaries from twenty five current and former re...

Pathologically-speaking, the antiquated term for watery discharge, especially with an offensive odour, was deliberately given in negati...

Via Curious Notions , we learn the above term from the Ancient Greek χῑλιάς for a grouping a thousand things mostly encountered in modern...

Earthmoving equipment for the construction of a new airport in northwest Crete, to replace the current second largest one in Heraklion ...

The paradoxes of ancient Greek philosopher Zeno, as recorded by Aristotle’s Physics , argues motion is illusionary with the dichotomy th...

Discovered on this day in 1873, the horde of gold treasure and other artefacts excavated at the site of modern day Hisarlık by Heinrich S...

Using a dual process of optical coherence tomography and infrared hyperspectral imaging to eke out characters from carbonised scrolls ho...