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A fox swiped a chicken leg right out of Charles Foster's hand, and he counted it among the best moments of his life. Foster is an Oxford don and practicing barrister who set out to experience the world as various animals and wrote a book in 2016 ...

Luigi Serafini spent the late 1970s in Rome drawing an encyclopedia of a world that doesn't exist -- plants that morph into animals, machines with no clear purpose, architecture that defies physics -- all annotated in a language he invented from ...

In Justin C. Key's The Hospital at the End of the World, the AI that runs all of American healthcare can't figure out Black hair. The Shepherd Organization's algorithms control diagnostics, treatment plans, and medical school admissions -- but when ...

Jake Adelstein is an American journalist and author based in Japan. His work includes Tokyo Vice (adapted into an HBO Max series), The Last Yakuza, and Tokyo Noir. Adelstein's latest book, The Devil Takes Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency Crimes and the ...

"I'm growing up in public, growing up in public,growing up in public -- with my pants down."-- Lou Reed Kamikaze, streaking from the sky! Crash and burn! Thus, the fanatical rage-fueled Kamikaze flight of yours truly in 1976, as I pilot the Japanese ...

In the 1800s, newspaper typesetters had a union-negotiated right to get paid for composing metal type that would be melted down unused. The practice was called "bogus" -- and the Supreme Court upheld it. Glenn Fleishman's Flong Time, No See:

Dolly Parton was stuck in a hotel room on a liquid diet, miserable, listening to her band have fun in the restaurant below. She couldn't eat. She couldn't just sit there feeling sorry for herself. So she wrote two hit songs instead. -- Read the rest ...

Forty-seven students in an Advanced Placement English class at Columbia High School in South Orange, New Jersey signed a petition this month to keep their book. The school had pulled Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao off the AP ...

Pollan's new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, goes after a favorite Silicon Valley assumption: that if you build a machine complex enough, awareness will eventually boot up inside it. In a Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, he ...

Green's Dictionary of Slang, the largest collection of English vulgarities, slurs and other ne'er-do-well words, is now free to read online thanks to author Jonathon Green. It is 'Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is,