There are three things that all living persons have in common: a body, the certainty of eventual death, and the fact that someone once cared for you, effortfully and around the clock.... Read more »
Most of us aren’t quite sure how we’re supposed to feel about the dramatic improvement of machine capabilities—the class of tools and techniques we’ve collectively labelled, in shorthand, artificial intelligence. Some people... Read more »
Date and Time December 5, 20232:00–4:00 p.m. ET Overview Are you interested in learning about training opportunities available in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program (IRP)? Join the Office... Read more »
Kristin M. Girten tells a new story of feminist knowledge-making in the Enlightenment era by exploring the British female philosophers who asserted their authority through the celebration of profoundly embodied observations, experiences,... Read more »
A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age,... Read more »
Every morning for the past 15 years, my father has sat at his usual corner table at Café HaMeshulash on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. He is the first to arrive when... Read more »
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month. The post On Our Nightstands: May 2023 appeared first on Public Books. Source link Read more »
As wildfires burned across Canada and smoke traveled at the end of May and the start of June this year, I heard from friends in New York, family in Minnesota, and former... Read more »
“Seven Moons” makes space for the cacophony of ghostly voices of those killed and disappeared in Sri Lanka’s long civil war. Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the Booker... Read more »