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Our dreams are our own — or are they? Meet the researchers behind the new science of TDI: targeted dream incubation

thewalrus.ca·10w

Despite science's efforts, consciousness isn't quantifiable. The hard problem remains stubbornly hard, but reading poetry may help

unherd.com·11w

Rose Lesniak, the magnetic feminist poet who heckled John Ashbery and trained dogs, is dead. She was 70

nytimes.com

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There were two Thomas Manns: the early, coolly ironic author of Death in Venice — and the later, literary spokesman for democracy

commonwealmagazine.org·11w·Hacker News

AI=B+

publicbooks.org·11w·Hacker News

Janet Flanner profiled Hitler the way she'd profiled Coco Chanel: as a human being. Hitler was pleased. American readers were not

theatlantic.com

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Laid off from The Washington Post, the critic Ron Charles turns to books that ask a fundamental question: Do I matter?

roncharles.substack.com·11w·Substack

How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer?

spectrum.ieee.org·11w·Hacker News

Seamus Perry · Pluralism and the Modern Poet

lrb.co.uk

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Werner Herzog has spent 50 years insisting that lies reveal deeper truths. That argument has become harder to make

thenation.com·11w·Hacker News

We lavish minimally competent fathers with unearned admiration. The concept deserves a name: oppressive praise

journals.uchicago.edu·11w

Inside the Reviewnaissance

cjr.org·12w

You’ve Done It Again, Michael

nplusonemag.com·12w

Books and screens

aeon.co·12w·Hacker News, Hacker News

What does it look like when the largest funder in the humanities goes all in on social justice?

chronicle.com·11w

"It’s weird: in Updike’s teenage letters he sounds preternaturally sophisticated; in his forties, he sounds like a horny kid"

newcriterion.com·11w

Why I Stopped Believing in Fallacies

persuasion.community·12w

"What is it to live near to light, in sustained awareness of it? How does it braid itself into our sense of revelation, our communion with grace?

harpers.org

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The Ur-“Conspiracy”: History of a Pseudoconcept by Barrett Brown

theparisreview.org·13w

Philanthropy for Radicals

dissentmagazine.org·13w

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