How To Be Good
What makes me the same person throughout my life, and…
A revolution in time
Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in…
Kurt Gödel – We’ll meet again
We’ll meet again. The intrepid logician Kurt Gödel believed in…
Multiverse: Ten implications
Throughout all previous epochs and periods of history of the…
About lips, about dreams: when grandma sings, the orchestra cries
I thought I knew that song. My mom sang it…
We all know that we will die, so why do we struggle to believe it?
In the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Leo Tolstoy…
Quantum Wittgenstein
Metaphysical debates in quantum physics don’t get at ‘truth’ –…
Slow sex, long life
For more than 1,000 years, the Imperial Family of Japan…
Wassily Kandinsky: the painter of sound and vision
Playing with the boundaries between the visual and the musical…
Facing History – Why we love Camus?
The French novelist and philosopher Albert Camus was a terrifically…
10 of the Most Iconic Buildings of Modern Architecture
Modern architecture is the school of design that prevailed since…
The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality
“The body provides something for the spirit to look after…
Love you from Zero to 7
I’m not a Peca Popović. I just put it all together like this: I didn’t know the lyrics of Destiny until…
David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’: How Berlin Shaped Eclectic 1977 Masterpiece
Fully settled in Berlin, with a work system established and in a far better place, physically and emotionally, than he’d been…
The Birth of Joy Division
The Joy Division story has been told many times, yet it never stops seeming too bizarre to be true. Jon Savage, best known for his…
The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album
To mark this month’s fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ ninth album, “The Beatles”—universally known as the White Album—several new expanded and enhanced editions…
The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats…
Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Ladyland’
“We’ve been doing new tracks that are really fantastic and we’ve just been getting into them,” Jimi Hendrix told Rolling Stone in February 1968, right…
The Return – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Well, the story begins like this: The promise is promise.…
2001: A Space Odyssey
“There’s something in the human personality which resents things that…
What Makes Vertigo the Best Film of All Time?
Vertigo is the greatest motion picture of all time. Or so…
Three Perspectives on Fitzcarraldo
In Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, the jungle, oppressive and thick, provides…
Most Tragic Movies of All Time
Tragedy for the purposes of this list does not mean…
A Movie Lover’s Guide To The Films Of Ingmar Bergman
I’m beginning to think that the late Swedish director Ingmar…
The 10 Best Erotic Movies of All Time
It is in the interest of any aspiring filmmaker to…
The 10 Best Structured Movies of All Time
It’s amazing to think of the vast methods one can…
