The Symbolic Animal
The appearance of a new English translation of Ernst Cassirer’s The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms marks the culmination of an unlikely intellectual revival. Cassirer’s three-volume magnum...
Infinite Quarantine
The phrase “surprise best seller”—often applied to more or less any book that achieves some commercial success despite not being by John Grisham, Nicholas Sparks, or...
Me Too in Egypt & Morocco
On July 1, 2020, Nadeen Ashraf, a twenty-two-year-old student at the American University of Cairo, noticed that a 2018 post by a fellow student to an...
How allies can step up for the Asian American community
In light of a series of horrific attacks against Asian Americans, Mashable’s Chase DiBenedetto breaks down where allies can start. Read more here. Read more… More...
What is Starlink? Elon Musk’s satellite internet service explained
Mashable’s Jennimai Nguyen answers the most pressing questions about SpaceX’s internet system, how it all really works, and how to sign up. Read more… More about...
Your House Key? Researchers Are Working On a Way To Hack It
In a study published last year, researchers with the National University of Singapore laid out what is essentially a high-tech solution for breaking and entering. Read...
This Cheap Cherry Ergonomic Keyboard Is Comfy As Hell
Cherry is best known as the creators of highly-coveted keyboard switches, the tiny switches that sit behind every key in your favorite input device. They’re less...
Report: Biden Admin Punishing ‘Dozens’ of Staffers for Prior Weed Use
President Joe Biden’s administration is telling staffers that they absolutely have to have just said no to drugs—after telling them it was ok to have said...
Sandra Cisneros on Reaching Non-Readers with Her Books
For WBEZ Chicago, Sandra Cisneros discusses winning the Fuller Award, an honor given to the city’s greatest living writers. Her most celebrated novel, The House on...
