Already, I’ve almost forgotten rain;I know I will never know that again. I move forward with the powers you gave meto live up ...

Do you believe that a machine can actually think, or are human and computer reasoning fundamentally different and irreconcilable?

In Heinlein’s tale, Mike was a companion, co-conspirator, and catalyst, a friend who could make us laugh even as he plotted ...

For centuries, people have dreamed of undoing Babel. Sci-fi novelists envisioned universal translators, and linguists devised international languages, all in pursuit of a world where one person could ...

Homer’s Odyssey, the nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem chronicling Odysseus as he tries to return home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, is among the world’s best-known and most-replicated stories. It ...

Imagine being able to read the poems of Sylvia Plath without knowing how she died. It’s a near-impossible thought experiment, given how her name and image have been reduced to what her daughter, the ...

Josie Glausiusz is a freelance science journalist who has written about the healing power of poetry for The Washington Post. With family at bedside,/ and the beau’s guitar/ filling the room,/ the leaf ...

There’s just something about a positive affirmation — when you find one you love, you might feel compelled to write it on a sticky note and slap it on your mirror. You’ll see it every day, repeat it ...

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It’s a familiar feeling: You start a text message, and your phone’s auto-complete function suggests several choices for the next word, ranging from banal to hilarious. “I love …” you, or coffee? Or ...

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