Selected by George Newman, the author of ‘How Great Ideas Happen.’

The actress made her directorial debut with this recently remastered 1987 documentary, which presents a range of opinions on life after death in witty, unconventional style.

DM Good morning. I've incubated for many weeks regarding where emotions and personality may reside within the Universal Holophren™, particularly the human version of it. Before I offer my conjecture, where do you believe these to be (...inclusive of genetic, epigenetic and experiential aspects), based upon our multitudes of prior-related conversations? I also attach the graphical representations to date of both The Universal Holophren and its "human version" (two PDF graphics

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer Matt Klein about how to win back our attention in an age of infinite information.

It’s time we all got off our asses, left the house, and had fun,’ Mark Cuban said in a statement.

The paper of record for the nation’s capital cut a third of its staff this week. It didn’t have to be like this.

In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation.

Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

What if you really did live every day as if it were your last? That was Brian’s plan.

The standout performance last night was about a mom reconsidering her political views.

Artist Pierre Huyghe’s Atari grid is 1,024 feet and comes with two controllers

You’ve long heard about search engine optimization. Companies are now spending big on generative engine optimization.

What a new life stage can teach the rest of us about how to find meaning and purpose—before it’s too late

Try my protocol for a happy start to the day and see what works for your own well-being.

On Wednesday Bruce Springsteen released a protest song condemning the violence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis.

DM Related to many of our conversations, I (divergently) continue to consider optimally pragmatic means to introduce, instruct, facilitate and sustain UII™ (Ubiquitous Integrated Inquiry™) to adolescents and adults who possess applicable motivations. This may be integrated with, or even central to 4Chairs.Life communities, and have relevance to prior post regarding the pursuit of eudaimonia. I foresee both non-trivial challenges as well as vast opportunities and benefits. As

In modern Britain, all roads lead to London, but one can still find traces of older routes and borders that once subdivided the island.

With Anthropic’s buzzy AI tool, two WSJ columnists vibe coded the interactive page you’re reading. Can you tell?

World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?