All Hail HAL!

from The New York Times What ‘2001’ Got Right By Michael Benson FRANKFURT, Germany — It’s a testament to the lasting influence of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which turns 50 this week, that the disc-shaped card commemorating the...

Geeks On Acid

from The Miami Herald LSD is ‘harmonizing’ for the brain — and can change your personality for years, studies find BY JOSH MAGNESS Two recently released studies show how LSD can affect the brain. Wikimedia Commons Your brain on LSD is kind of like jazz...

Dark Age Sex

from AEON The salacious Middle Ages Medieval people feared death by celibacy as much as venereal disease, and practiced complex sexual health regimens by Katherine Harvey In the popular imagination, the history of sex is a straightforward one. For centuries, the...

E=MCwhat?

from Forbes The Three Meanings Of E=mc^2, Einstein’s Most Famous Equation by Ethan Siegel The particle tracks emanating from a high energy collision at the LHC in 2014. Composite particles are broken up into their components and scattered, but new particles For...

Degas On The Bus

from The Telegraph Stolen £700,000 Degas painting found on a bus near Paris by Rory Mulholland Edgar Degas was a leading Impressionist. CREDIT: HERVE LEWANDOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) French customs officers making a random check on a bus at a motorway layby found a...