2023 - To Read

Gian Lorenzo Bernini served eight different popes. In the process, he expanded and redefined the visual culture of the Christian faith.

No. VII, 1974 by Cy Twombly (1928-2011)

Eren Orbey talks about inequality in college admissions, and what it’s like to take the new digital SAT.

Critics say that big-time donors wield too much power over their fellow-citizens and perpetuate social inequality. But don’t cancel Lady Bountiful just yet.

From the velocipede to the ten-speed, biking innovations brought riders freedom. But in a world built for cars, life behind handlebars is both charmed and dangerous.

Punjabi microbiologist Surendra Nath Sehgal spent his life’s work studying a bacterium found in the soil on Easter Island. Called Rapamycin, it became a wonder drug, changing the lives of millions. “Uma, it’s a fantastic compound, it’s a miracle,” Sehgal would tell his wife during these early encounters. “Anything it touches gives good results.” Back […]

This week the paper is the “authoritative” source on Haiti. Next week it will be something else.

What does he have to be true to, asked Anthony Lane about 007 in his New Yorker review of the latest Bond movie, No Time to Die. Bond, played a last time by Daniel Craig, is tired, grumpy, and disenchanted. Indeed, what could inspire a nearly forgotten, undervalued, overlooked, has-been to loyalty? Lane always leaves […]

Three days after Seher Shah’s show opened in New Delhi, Muslim-owned shops and a mosque in a northern neighborhood of the city were illegally bulldozed by the Hindu-nationalist-BJP-led municipal corporation. This act of politically motivated urban destruction lends an intense charge to an exhibition oriented around architectural forms and archaeological heritage.Play with negative space and dystopian themes have long been part of Shah’s practice. “Notes from a City Unknown,” 2021, is a series of thirty-two screen prints of monochromatic diagrams accompanied by lyrical annotations seemingly

Where did she come from? That’s what we were asking ourselves, my sister and my father and I, after she left us and this world on the morning of May 9,

The massive and mind blowing Game Developer’s Conference is almost here, and in the spirit of all things gamey and delicious (like lamb and…

Let's make a list of the best books that every game developer should read. Each answer should have a single book (by title and optionally author), a link to buy the book, and a short synopsis of w...

Being part of the design industry since 2011 (gosh, I feel old), I experienced many empty moments when my mind was too tired to start a new…

“Are there any books, blogs, or shows that I should be reading or watching?” This is probably the most common question I get from people…

Designer and writer Eron Rauch compiles a wide-ranging list of articles, essays, and other useful resources that game devs can use and share with each other to

When do we have a scientific fact? Link: https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/how-to-identify-a-scientific-fact/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34179568

Attached: 3 images 2022: A year of freewheeling apps http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

My 2022 #reading list http://eli.li/_assets/bin/2022-reading-list.txt (heads up, it is just a plaintext list)

Bad things lead to more bad things. But (some) bad things can be fixed.

Along with a wealth of silent films.

The terminal is the result of its history, from the telegram to our terminal emulators. What is the difference with a console? The shell?

To the members of the literary community we lost this year, we say a last thank you, and goodbye. You will be missed. * F. Sionil José, “the grand old man of Philippine letters,” died o…

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