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Scientists Want to Study Exoplanet Atmospheres for Signs of Alien Life
Instead of looking at individual biosignatures, a new dynamic framework suggests that studying atmospheric seasons may be the key for detecting alien life on exoplanets.
The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of
How the PLATO system, a pre-internet online platform that first came to life at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s, quietly fostered some of the first digital natives.
Artist Duo Blends Sculpture, Collage, and Watercolor into an Adorable Claymation
Multimedia and animation team Jyun Jyun and missTANGQ present a dreamscape of supple ink paintings and stop-motion animation.
Modern Spin on Plato's Cave Explores the Limits of 3D Reality
Artist Yiannis Biliris’ take on Plato takes us out of the cave and onto the screen.
Elon Musk Is Wrong. We Aren't Living in a Simulation
A simulated apple can't feed anybody, and other reality checks by a philosopher and a cognitive scientist.
Sculptures or Skyscrapers? Daniel Mullen's Paintings Look Like Both
Painter Daniel Mullen is striving to paint an illusion... of an illusion.
Pneuma Hagion's R. Discusses Death Metal, Greek Philosophy, and Gnosticism
Nuclear War Now! Productions' bestial new signee gets philosophical.
A Chronology of Terence McKenna-Related Books, Ideas, People, and Other Things
A chronological list of 30 McKenna-related books, ideas, people, and other things that combine Terence McKenna's attraction toward history, his focus on memes, and his perspective that "the world is made of language."
'MATTE' Magazine Presents Ben McNutt
Check out Baltimore artist Ben McNutt's queer perspective on wrestling in issue 24 of 'MATTE' magazine, available now.
A/V Installation Re-Imagines The Universe As A Sonic Solar System
Inspired by Plato's theory that each planet has its own unique sonic tone, "Timée" strives to create "new music of the spheres."
Thomas Cahill Is Saving Civilization
Over the course of books such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sailing the Wine-Dark Seas, and Mysteries of the Middle Ages, historian Thomas Cahill has done more for making ancient history readable and entertaining than all the cobweb-covered...