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Is Nostr an Antidote to Social Media Censorship?

What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?

Reason · Sep 17, 2024

Typography glossary – an A-Z of type terms

Discover all the type terms you need to know with this ultimate type glossary.

Creative Bloq · Sep 16, 2024

Back in the USSR? Malcolm Knox’s dark comedy leans into the ridiculous

Fans of Soviet history and/or the 2017 comedy film, The Death of Stalin, will remember Levrentiy Pavlovich Beria as the ruthless would-be successor to a certain General Secretary left lying on the floor in a puddle of his own urine following a stroke because, as historian Simon Sebag Montefiore puts…

The Conversation · Sep 5, 2024

What is mental imagery? Brain researchers explain the pictures in your mind and why they’re useful

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected].

The Conversation · Aug 26, 2024

France remembers heroic liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, 80 years ago

France commemorates on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from German Nazi occupation, nine months before the end of World War II. RFI looks at what's being remembered and how.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 25, 2024

The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad at math.” I suppress the response, “You are forgiven, my child.”

The Conversation · Aug 20, 2024

Gail’s comes under fire after customers told to pay £1 extra for day-old croissants

‘The day-old croissants are sturdier than fresh ones, making them the perfect bake’

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2024

A post-pandemic novel with a fairy tale twist, Julia Phillips’ Bear is a harrowing story of economic hardship

With her second novel Bear, Julia Phillips consolidates her position as a leading novelist of the cartographic margins.

The Conversation · Aug 15, 2024

The greatest poet who never lived – Ern Malley at 80

Eighty years ago, an exciting new poet was published in the modernist literary journal Angry Penguins. Of course, we all know now that Ern Malley was a hoax, so it can be easy to overlook just how blindsided Max Harris, Angry Penguins’ precocious young editor, must have been.

The Conversation · Aug 14, 2024

What makes a book a bestseller? It’s tricky

It is a truth generally acknowledged that authors and publishers want their books to become bestsellers. Bestseller lists, especially those published in prestigious media outlets, such the New York Times, or publishing industry magazines are important marketing tools for publishers, and useful selection tools for booksellers, librarians and readers.

The Conversation · Aug 12, 2024