Magnolias are among the earliest trees to bloom, their soft petals appearing before the leaves and signalling the slow shift into spring. With fossil records dating back nearly 100 million years, they are considered one of the oldest flowering plants, evolving before bee pollination became widespread and relying instead on beetles. Across cultures, magnolias have […]
Jan 10, 2025 There is increasing speculation and concern about the role of AI in the future of the arts. Surprisingly, many Christians are already embracing the use of AI to produce images of the saints. In this episode, Thomas and Susannah Black Roberts make the argument for why AI art is a contradiction in […]
For many of us, Jane Goodall was one of those cultural figures who seemed always to have been around, and on some level, made us feel like she always would be. But of course, no human being lives forever, no matter how widely admired. Goodall made her own departure last fall, in the middle of […]
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“Where does that voice come from?” Far be it for me to speculate on the nature of inspiration. Fortunately, I have plenty of fodder to draw from in the final, disconnected vignettes of the Netflix series Sandman, season 1, episode 11, part 2 of which is titled “Calliope.” We begin in a university lecture hall […]
Everything’s more fun with friends, and Pokémon Pokopia gives you plenty of ways to share the adventure. Like most multiplayer games, Pokopia lets you team up to explore, build, and share your worlds. You can drop by a friend’s island to see their Pokémon and habitats, team up on a Cloud Island to create something […]
Jan 22, 2025 St. Anicius Manlius Severius Boethius’s book The Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison while awaiting martyrdom around the year 524, is one of the single most influential works for medieval philosophy and theology. But Boethius also owed much to the pagan philosophy that came before him. Thomas Ward has just […]
Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, in a post on the pioneering composer of the original Doctor Who theme, we wrote that “the early era of experimental electronic music belonged to Delia Derbyshire.” Derbyshire—who almost gave Paul McCartney a version of “Yesterday” with an electronic backing in place of strings—helped invent the […]
Runners love to let other people know that they enjoy running. Case in point: Harry Styles chose Runner’s World as his publication of choice to promote his new album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. And well, when you’re as good of a runner as Styles is, then more power to you. The musician is […]
Back when walking around malls was still a thing, and they were well-populated with a variety of stores and people, one of the things you could count on was seeing an eclectic swath of graphic T-shirts. The ones that stood out to me then were those with the clever pun or sarcastic comment, maybe with […]
