There is a deep debate that has been going on for centuries in the world of science and philosophy, a debate that some might call a war. It revolves around the nature of consciousness and the self, and with recent advances in artificial intelligence, the topic is more relevant than ever.

Roland Allen loves notebooks. Why wouldn’t he? He is, after all, a writer. In his new study, delightfully subtitled A History of Thinking on Paper, he declares: “If your business is words, a notebook can be at once your medium – and your mirror.

L'urbex, ou exploration urbaine, consiste à visiter en général sans autorisation des lieux abandonnés (usines désaffectées, bâtiments publics inoccupés, maisons et châteaux en ruines) , dans le but le plus souvent de documenter leur état actuel mais aussi leur histoire et celle de leurs oc

Le 11 septembre 2023, le ministre de la Transition écologique et de la Cohésion des territoires, Christophe Béchu, et la ministre déléguée chargée des Petites et moyennes entreprises, du Commerce, de l’Artisanat et du Tourisme, Olivia Grégoire, ont annoncé un programme national de transf

On the 11th floor of a suburban Hong Kong tower, an 86-year-old woman lived alone in a tiny, decrepit apartment. Her family rarely visited. Her daughter had married a man in Macau and now lived there with him and their two children.

I was sceptical as to whether Squid Game, the smash-hit Korean thriller about a fight to the death involving children’s games, could work as a real-life TV show. Early reports suggested that some players were having a miserable time; the producers and Netflix issued a firm denial.

C’est en 1963 que Pierre Boulle publie La Planète des Singes.

In 2011, Sebastien Girard, a French photographer, publisher and curator, purchased a milk crate packed with private photo albums from an American auction house. An avid collector of found photography archives, he had no real idea what he was buying, nor who had taken the pictures.

Nairobi’s Dandora dump site is one of the largest in Africa and less than 8 miles from where talks will be held on a UN plastic pollution treaty

The son of an English businessman, J. G. Ballard was born and raised in Shanghai. For the past twenty-odd years, he has lived more or less anonymously in Shepperton, a dingy, nondescript suburb of London lying under the approach to Heathrow Airport.

Here is a plan for a day out on the Metropolitan line of London’s underground, although we will at no stage be under ground, and will travel 25 miles from London. First, however, a little history.

En allant voir le nouveau film d’Hayao Miyazaki, on ne peut s’empêcher de remarquer combien l’œuvre rend la salle perplexe. Force est de constater que Le Garçon et le Héron ne suit pas la même logique que ses prédécesseurs.

This episode of Hub Dialogues features American Enterprise Institute scholar James Pethokoukis talking about his must-read new book, The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised.

It’s hard to believe that Randall Park Mall, once the largest mall in the world, is no more. A massive monument to shopping that encompassed nearly 2.

“On se croirait dans un film de Ridley Scott où une technologie paraît non seulement plus ‘authentique’ que de vrais humains, mais aussi plus convaincante. Ce scénario semble s’être déjà matérialisé”, indique The Guardian.

John Darwell is an independent photographer working on long-term projects that reflect his interest in social and industrial change, concern for the environment and issues around the depiction of mental health.

Émile Verhaeren, né à Saint-Amand dans la province d'Anvers (Belgique) le 21 mai 1855 et mort à Rouen le 27 novembre 1916, est un poète belge flamand, d'expression française.

Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish, darkly humorous, and yet endearingly sincere.

Over the course of the last few decades, a new sound has taken root in Germany—one that exists largely in the shadows, outside the gaze of the media and the public at large, appreciated only by a select few. It wouldn’t feel quite right to call this music the product of a “scene,” exactly.

“Est-ce que vous me voyez ?” À l’ère de la visioconférence, la question est devenue banale. Mais dès lors que vous la posez au philosophe David Chalmers, elle acquiert une tout autre profondeur.

In the church of my childhood, we believed God’s angels battled demons in a war for our souls. This was not a metaphor. We were Pentecostals, though not strictly and not always.