Philosopher

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My undrugged mind, to borrow a witticism from J. L. Austin, delivers to me a world of “medium-sized dry goods” and little else. My drugged mind delivers to me spirits or djinni or angels or I don’t know what to call them. It presents to me…

Late October — rain in New York.As was his habit, Noam arrived at the studio just after six in the morning. The antechamber was cold. He had not come in for a while because of a bad cough that had left him with a deep ache in his back and a…

Second homes, for so long the objects of aspiration, are swiftly becoming targets of condemnation. This year may even turn out to be the year that attitudes decisively shifted. In July, Leeds Building Society announced it would stop…

Credit: University at Buffalo Elon Musk in 2020 said that artificial intelligence (AI) within five years would surpass human intelligence on…

Kids ages 5 to 11 can now be vaccinated against COVID-19 following the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer Bio-NTech vaccine for this age group and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…

“If I use images of people that look a little bit different, like I had a girl that had a bald head as my thumbnail, and she shaved her head because she was someone that was dealing with cancer,” he said. “Naturally, our eyes even just…