Wittgenstein finished the Tractatus certain all philosophical problems were solved. Then spent his life disagreeing.

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Polo Officials Ban Genetically Enhanced Ponies To Save 'the Magic of Breeding'

The Black Executioner

A US-India Partnership for the AI Age

California’s Youth Mental-Health Crisis

A New Non-Aligned Movement?

Here’s Why Dreams During Naps Are So Weird

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Deep-Earth map reveals a lost U.S. continent

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Making it in a non-existent profession. The economics of the writing life are grim, mercurial, and infrequently discussed

Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art

Darwin’s Greatest Regret and His Deathbed Reflection on What Makes Life Worth Living

Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life

Wilderness, Solitude, and Creativity: Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life During Seven Months on a Small Alaskan Island

Jan Morris: A Life

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What Is Life Like Beneath the Bombs of the Iran War?

John Aubrey, born 400 years ago, lived a prodigiously productive literary life, starting innumerable projects and finishing just a few

A brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life