Tag: writing

December 1, 2023 at 12:48 pm

Artificial Intelligence Companies Are Hiring Poets, Novelists, And Playwrights To Augment Their Technology

Artificial Intelligence Companies Are Hiring Poets, Novelists, And Playwrights To Augment Their Technology

This topic will get messier before it begins to untangle

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November 3, 2022 at 10:03 pm

4 Grammar Rules You Really Don’t Need to Worry About

4 Grammar Rules You Really Don’t Need to Worry About

Still… aren’t you curious?

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February 18, 2021 at 8:52 pm

Umberto Eco Looking for a Book in His Massive Library

Umberto Eco Looking for a Book in His Massive Library

He has over 30,000 books in his personal library

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July 1, 2020 at 12:08 pm

Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” Screenplay, Handwritten in March of 1988

Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" Screenplay, Handwritten in March of 1988

He wrote the entire 173-page first draft in only 2 weeks

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October 17, 2019 at 3:27 pm

An Impressionist Recites a Poem in 20 Celebrity Voices While Being Deepfaked

An Impressionist Recites a Poem in 20 Celebrity Voices While Being Deepfaked

Has technology gone too far?

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September 3, 2019 at 2:24 pm

Kurzgesagt Animated Andy Weir’s Story ‘The Egg’ and It’s Beautiful

Kurzgesagt Animated Andy Weir's Story 'The Egg' and It's Beautiful

A video 2 years in the making, it’s Kurzgesagt’s most philosophical yet.

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May 15, 2019 at 5:06 pm

A 1998 Interview With George RR Martin On His ‘Epic New Fantasy Series’

A 1998 Interview With George RR Martin On His 'Epic New Fantasy Series'

Wearing a “Winter is Coming” shirt before it was cool

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May 6, 2019 at 4:37 pm

Why the World’s Best Mathematicians are Hoarding Chalk

Why the World’s Best Mathematicians are Hoarding Chalk

Of course it’s from Japan

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August 10, 2018 at 12:00 pm

The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird and Wonderful Objects

The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird and Wonderful Objects

A lock of Walt Whitman’s hair, Jack Kerouac’s boots, and Virginia Woolf’s cane are just a few of the items

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July 9, 2018 at 4:27 pm

The Importance of Sentence Length in Writing

The Importance of Sentence Length in Writing

An excerpt from Gary Provost’s 1985 book, “100 ways to improve your writing”

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